《هو الحق》
- ما هر جا باشیم باز هم زندگی را خودمان می سازیم. دانشگاه رفتن فقط کارت را کمی ساده می کند. گستردگی یا محدودیت مسیر ما بستگی به کیفیتی دارد که به آن می دهیم نه جا به جایی که از آن خارج می‌شویم. اینجا... یا هر جای دیگر... زندگی همواره غنی و پر بار است، فقط باید یاد بگیریم که چطور دریچه قلبمان را به روی این همه نعمت و ثروت باز کنیم.

Non bello quanto il primo a mio parere, ma mi è piaciuto vedere Anna più adulta e tutte le strambe vicende in cui è stata coinvolta. Il finale mi ha fatto scendere la lacrimuccia, sono felice, proprio felice! Devo leggere il terzo che prevedo feels a non finire!

n  "Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music..."n

Choosing this as my first read for Women's History Month 2022 was one of this year's best decisions so far. It's a big shame that Montgomery's works are so unfairly underrated in the classics genre, because there is so much to be mined from them — from the rich writing down to the actual storyline.

Anne of Green Gables was my first classic. I first read it when I was 14. As a young and impressionable bookworm back then, I was instantly enamored with Montgomery's beautiful and imaginative writing. And nine years later, after finally picking up the sequel, I found it to be as striking, as heartfelt, and as magical as ever — in fact, even more so, in spite of the near decade I've had to mature as a reader.

There is just something about her storytelling that makes it so timeless, in every sense of the word. Montgomery's accounts of Anne's life journey endear to both young and old readers alike; as this particular installation kindled in me both the follies of childhood and the deeper joys of adulthood. Even with its status as a classic, it somehow retains a certain freshness to it, as if it's suspended right above the demarcation between the past and the contemporary — not just because of the language or the writing style, but because of the divergent and free-spirited nature of the protagonist herself, and the nuggets of universal truths and insights imbedded within that are as real before as they are now.

n  "Perhaps some realization came to her that after all it was better to have, like Anne, 'the vision and the faculty divine'... that gift which the world cannot bestow or take away, of looking at life through some transfiguring... or revealing?... medium, whereby everything seemed apparelled in celestial light..."n

در این جلد آنی معلم شده
قسمتی که نامه‌های بچه‌ها و موضوعات انشا و کلا مربوط به تدریسش و کلاسداریش بود برام خیلی دوست داشتنی بود.
کلا رابطه‌ی خوبی با بچه‌ها داره، بخصوص اون قسمتی که دوقلوها رو ماریلا به سرپرستی گرفت و شیطنت‌هاشون خیلی بامزه بود.

Ahhhh!



This was exactly what I needed . . . a long soak in a hot tub, a breath of fresh air, a visit with Anne. Whenever the news, work, or life in general gets too much, it's always so refreshing to pick up this book and escape to a world where you can stumble upon a total stranger's house and be invited in for tea. (Man, they eat a lot of cake in this book. What a perfect world!)

This volume concentrates on Anne's two years spent teaching. There are good days and bad days as she attempts to mold the young minds of Avonlea.
Newly orphaned twins - the lifeless Dora and the way-too-lively Davy - come to live with lifelong spinster Marilla, prompting Mrs. Rachel Lynde to quip, n  "You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead."n A local kook successfully predicts a wicked storm, and the Village Improvement Society, a group spearheaded by Anne and Diana to spruce up Avonlea, is born.

Love and laughs abound, and yes, it's sappy as hell, but as I said, exactly what I needed.

It's an election year, and I have a feeling I'm going to be rereading the rest of this series before November rolls around. It's so nice to know that when I wake with a panic attack at 3 a.m. that Anne's simple, and simply beautiful, world will be waiting for me.

Originally read in the eighties, reread 7/2016, and 5/2024. Review revised May 2024.

Why I chose to listen to this audiobook:
1. I'm refreshing my memory after reading this book so many years ago; and,
2. July 2023 is my self-appointed "O'Canada Month"!

Praises:
1. I enjoyed how Anne moved from girlhood in Anne of Green Gables to young womanhood within her community. From teaching at the local school, volunteering through Avonlea's Improvement Society, to relating with a variety of interesting characters that we readers meet for the first time, Anne continued to delight me with her vivid descriptions of her natural surroundings, her enthusiasm making new friends, and her "scandalous" dilemmas she seems to frequently get entangled in (For readers of this series: Did you ever notice that some of the scrapes Anne gets herself into were only because Marilla put something in the pantry that didn't belong there?)

تمومش کردم و بسیار زیبا بود پر از زیبایی و جذابیت

n  n   

“I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “I don’t exactly want to make people know more…though I know that is the noblest ambition…but I’d love to make them 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.”

n  n

It's an ultimate joy when the second book in the series is even better than the first - and if the first was perfect then the second is square of perfection? Perfection × Perfection. Math was never my strong point

In this book, Anne is 16 going on 17, back at Avonlea and Green Gables taking care of dear Marilla and the little twins, walking across the paths and valleys with their magical names, going on perfect picnics with her friends, meeting new kindred spirits, forming a society for The Improvement of Avonlea and starting her new job as a teacher.
Of course, she gets into a lot of adventures, she learns a lot of new things and she always believes in her ideals.
At the end of the day, the reader loves Anne for precisely that; her ability to dream with her eyes open, her endless faith in the good, her wish for Improvement and knowledge and enjoyment of the worldly things like finding a flower in the garden or making friends aka kindred spirits, baking a cake, and helping people be themselves.

n  “After all ,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”n

L. M. Montgomery let her views on many topics be present in the work, each chapter an episode for itself; just like book one, this one is following the episodic structure.

n  "I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. My heart did break, if ever a heart did, when I realized that Stephen Irving was not coming back. But, Anne, a broken heart in real life isn’t half as dreadful as it is in books. It’s a good deal like a bad tooth…though you won’t think that a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it. And now you’re looking disappointed. You don’t think I’m half as interesting a person as you did five minutes ago when you believed I was always the prey of a tragic memory bravely hidden beneath external smiles. That’s the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won’t let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you’re determined to be unhappy and romantic."n

n  Final thoughtsn: I completely agree with Mark Twain, this is the sweetest story about childhood and growing up ever written.next to Little women

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“I suppose that’s how it looks in prose. But it’s very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it’s nicer…” Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed…“to look at it through poetry.”
Marilla glanced at the radiant young face and refrained from further sarcastic comments. Perhaps some realization came to her that after all, it was better to have, like Anne, “the vision and the faculty divine”…that gift which the world cannot bestow or take away, of looking at life through some transfiguring…or revealing?…medium, whereby everything seemed apparelled in celestial light, wearing a glory and a freshness not visible to those who, like herself and Charlotta the Fourth, looked at things only through prose."

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I never thought that there will ever be a book that I will love just as much as n  Little Womenn but here it is. Review to come.

5 / 5 ⭐

cudowna kontynuacja! Coś czuje, że będę wielką miłośniczką całej serii. Bardzo podoba mi się to nowe tłumaczenie - po dwóch tomach już się przyzwyczaiłam do Anne, Rachel czy Zielonych Szczytów. Podczas czytania czułam, że sama znalazłam się na Wyspie Księcia Edwarda i towarzyszyłam bohaterom w przygodach

Ahhhh!



This was exactly what I needed . . . the long soak in a hot tub, the breath of fresh air, the perfect antidote to the hatred and venom spewed by the racist, rabid yam currently running for President. Yes, after a week of watching a 70-year-old toddler throw daily tantrums, it was so refreshing to pick up this book and escape to a world where you could stumble upon a stranger's house and be invited in for tea.

This volume concentrates on Anne's two years spent teaching. There are good days and bad days as she attempts to mold the young minds of Avonlea.
Newly orphaned twins - the lifeless Dora and the way-too-lively Davy - come to live with lifelong spinster Marilla, prompting Mrs. Rachel Lynde to quip, "You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead." A local kook successfully predicts a wicked storm, and the Village Improvement Society, a group spearheaded by Anne and Diana to spruce up Avonlea, is born.

Love and laughs abound, and yes, it's sappy as hell, but as I said, exactly what I needed.


I have a feeling I'm going to be rereading the rest of this series before November rolls around. It's so nice to know that when I wake with a 3 AM panic attack, convinced that Trump has already won and life as we know it is over, that Anne's simple, and simply beautiful, world will be waiting for me.

It's almost worse now that Anne and Gilbert are actually friends. *rubs fist over heart*



BUT.

I will persevere!

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