te książki są dla mnie tak idealne, że bardziej się nie da.

That last scene- my heart. Omw.

Still dreamy and sweet. Love the ridiculous scrapes Anne gets into. Looking forward to more Gilbert in the next one.

OCENA: 4,5 ⭐️

J’aime tout dans ce tome 2. Anne s’étoffe, la vie à Avonlea est charmante, il y a du romantisme et de l’humour. Les nouveaux personnages sont parfaits et j’aime passionnément la manière dont l’autrice fait traverser la vie à sa petite protégée. Tellement hâte de lire la suite.

Why did Anne have to grow up so fast?

The first book was fabulous! Lots of fun mischief but the second has her at 16 already! Where did those four years go? n  Laura Ingalls Wilder didn't skimp out on the childhood.n

I enjoyed this book - seeing Anne blossom into a young school teacher (aside: Totally not fair that everyone get such great jobs out of high school?? Same with Laura Ingalls Wilder. They just handed out jobs to anyone who would take them!)

A pet peeve of mine was really played upon. All kids are precocious angels. Yes, Anne has some struggles but you know from the start that she's going to overcome them magnificently.

It's a little too predictable. And the precocious moments were bordering annoying.

Also, did anyone else feel for poor Dora? Her twin brother, Davy, is a complete bullying snot yet Anne and Marilla just adore him (they even admit that the care more for that little snit)?!

Sure Dora is quiet, but she is dutiful and obedient and deserves twice as much attention as they are lavishing on that horrible Davy.

Still loved this book though!!

Audiobook Comments
Read by Barbara Caruso and she really let this audio shine.

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Przemiła lektura, ale nie miała tego posmaku, co tom pierwszy - zabieram się za kolejne tomy.

5+ stars (9/10 hearts). This book picks up exactly where book one left off, and it is the perfect sequel.

Anne is an older, maturing girl now and I loved watching seeing her grow more. There is so much to be learned from this book—lessons of how to live simple, everyday life with beauty and truth and inspiration. Marilla is much the same as in the old book, yet more mellow. Mrs. Lynde, Diana, Jane, Ruby, the Allans—all delightfully the same.
And there are new characters—Mr. Harrison, absolutely hilarious; Paul, a darling; Miss Lavender & Mr. Irving, both wonderful; Davy, so funny and so real; and a thousand other minor but real characters.

This book is full of beauty and truth and romance, and hilarious humour... proof that everyday life is full of romance and tragedy and comedy.... The writing style is gorgeous, as always, and the messages are SO good. And I love how this book ends—Montgomery is a GENIUS with closing paragraphs. This is just such a beautiful book, and an excellent book for girls to grow up with. I just can’t express how good and beautiful it is…

Content: A couple euphemisms, a few opinions I don’t agree with, a mention of ghosts (as unreal).

A Favourite Quote: “I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “…I’d love to make [people] have a pleasanter time because of me … to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.”
A Favourite Beautiful Quote: Anne rose betimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day, when the banners of the sunrise were shaken triumphantly across the pearly skies. Green Gables lay in a pool of sunshine, flecked with the dancing shadows of poplar and willow. Beyond the land was Mr. Harrison’s wheatfield, a great, windrippled expanse of pale gold.
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “…he’s a real bad man.”
“Indeed he's not,” said Marilla indignantly.
“He is … he says he is himself,” asseverated Davy. “He said it when he prayed in Sunday School last Sunday. He said he was a vile worm and a miserable sinner and guilty of the blackest ’niquity. What did he do that was so bad, Marilla? Did he kill anybody? Or steal the collection cents? I want to know.”
Fortunately Mrs. Lynde came driving up the lane at this moment and Marilla made off, ... wishing devoutly that Mr. Bell were not quite so highly figurative in his public petitions, especially in the hearing of small boys who were always ‘wanting to know.’

4.5 stars.I am not sure whether I read Anne of Avonlea as a child because I remember none of it and I also know I could not get my hands on every book in the series. This one may have been one of the ones I pined for but never managed to track down in my book small world of the mid twentieth century.

I thoroughly enjoyed this version read by Barbara Caruso. She narrates well and I will certainly stay with her as I listen through to the other books in the series. After a small break I will be on to Anne of the Island.

There are many witty little events that happen in this book that I chuckled out loud at. Like Anne and a parrot that belongs to a next door neighbour. I liked the irrepressible Davy one of the twins that come to live with Anne and Marilla. His reasoning and thoughts often had me smiling. However Dora was a very flat character and we did not see much of her. Davy was a little jealous of the attention Anne gave to one of her pupils Paul Irving. I liked Paul too, but he was a little too perfect for my taste.

In this book Anne spends two years teaching at the local school. As a teacher myself I identified with many of her thoughts and experiences and fully sympathised with her over her terrible Jonah day. Some of the views expressed, especially over physical punishment was before her time, but then again Davy would prefer a good walloping rather than the boring punishments meted out to him by Anne and Marilla.

There is an author visit that excites Anne and Diana, a mishap with a plate that lands Anne in one of the funniest situations, I could imagine a cartoon of it and made a note to look at a physical book to see what illustrations are in it. I'd actually like to buy a set of Anne books so I am looking around. Any suggestions for a good version - let me know.

Anne is still full of imagination and romance and her heart receives a fullness of it, although at this point Anne is more interested in matchmaking romance for others, rather than being ready for her own. We leave Anne here at the age of eighteen, ready to go off to college.

So happy I made it a priority to listen to this book. The book I think stands the test of time.

n  "Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"n


n  Another Series of Letters.n

Manchester,
A woman picked a leaf out of my hair on the bus today (true story… it's very windy and I don’t brush my hair there are a lot of trees near me). Also, I’m pretty sure One Direction (and their fan girls) were on the same bus this morning. (Brits… you’ll understand my pain. Everyone else, you don’t want to know...I promise you.)
Also, the postman didn’t knock on the door and just shoved one of those ‘SORRY YOU WEREN’T IN’ things through my letter box.
That would not be tolerated on Prince Edward Island.
You’re making my decision to move all the more easier.
Yours faithfully,
Miss Williams.


Dear L.M,
Re: Moving into your mind.
Did you get my previous letters? Have you had chance to think about me moving into your mind? Only I have a few friends who would probably be quite interested too.
We won’t make much noise, we’ll take off our shoes before entering and we’ll always use a coaster.
Please think about it!
Kind Regards,
J. Williams.


Dearest Anne,
I fear I must apologise for laughing so heartily at the firecracker incident. I promise I was laughing with you and not at you.
I hope my honesty and my apology will still allow me to be your kindred spirit.
Lots of love,
Jo.

P.S. Re: Gilbert. ANNE. You have no idea how much I wanted to strangle you with that descending veil of yours at the end.



Dear Gilbert,
Sigh. If only you were real your heart didn’t beat in time with another’s.

Yours Truly,
Jo.


Miss L- They say life starts at 40….. And I’m sure the handsome prince will help. ;-) –J.W


Paul,
Stay away from Davy, I don't want your innocent and sweet mind messed up by him. He is obviously up to no good and only naughty people will be silly enough to play with him.
Best wishes,
Jo.


Davy- Meet me in Dora’s room. I’ve got those toads you asked for- J.

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Anne of Green Gables is one of my favorite books ever. But the story doesn’t stop there! I’ve never read the entire series, so I’m on a mission to do just that. This second installment I have read before, and I love it just as much as the preceding book. Here, Anne takes her first halting steps into adulthood, and the change is both charming and sad. Anne will always be a free spirit, but seeing her temper that spiritedness enough to become an effective teacher was fascinating to behold.

I’ve always loved schoolmarm stories. There’s something about one-room schoolhouses and having to teach to so many age groups simultaneously that blows my mind. I’m a teacher, but I can’t even fathom having to teach every subject to every age group every single day. I don’t know how teachers of the past did it. The thing is, I know that if I had lived in the same time period, I would have sought out to do exactly that. Though it was undoubtedly hard work, there’s a romance to being a schoolmarm that has always appealed to me. Because of this, I love reading about school teachers of the past. I have to say, Anne Shirley made a remarkable schoolmarm. She’s kind and thoughtful and is just barely out of childhood herself, so she remembers what it’s like to be on the other side of the blackboard, so to speak. All of those traits coupled with her renowned imagination means that Anne can relate to her students better than most, and that she finds new and unique methods of teaching them.

One of my favorite parts of this book was the introduction of two new little boys: Paul Irving and Davy. I don’t think you could possibly find two more radically different boys in real life or in fiction. Paul Irving is a sweet, smart, thoughtful boy with an imagination that rivals Anne’s, and he and Anne are undoubtedly kindred spirits. Davy is a spitfire, a rambunctious boy with the greatest propensity for questioning I’ve ever seen. And the questions that boy comes up with! There’s no way I could’ve kept a straight face while trying to answer some of those questions. Though both boys are as different as can be, they’re both incredibly dear to Anne.

In this book we also visit Echo Lodge for the first time and meet Miss Lavendar, another kindred spirit. Miss Lavendar is an old maid unlike any other. She refuses to go gently into spinsterhood, and has instead built a beautiful if lonely life for herself. Echo Lodge is beautiful and magical, almost like a fairy realm. And Miss Lavendar makes a stunning fairy queen; the only way you could guess her age is by her snow-white hair. She’s just as imaginative as Anne, and she gets a wonderful happy ending in this book.

The book ends with Anne and Gilbert both deciding to head off to college. Even though I love knowing where their story is heading (after all, theirs is often billed as one of the greatest romances in fiction), I’m loving every second of the journey. It’s so nice to have a romantic element that isn’t instantaneous, but instead builds over the course of multiple books. Romance when approached this way just feels both more realistic and more wholesome to me.

Can you tell I love this series? I wish I had discovered it when I was a child, but I’m enjoying it immensely now as an adult. If you love historical fiction with a bright and uplifting worldview, you owe it to yourself to read this series. It’s one of easiest classics to read that I’ve yet to come across.