This was enjoyable, but not as engaging and interesting as the first book. As I was reading, I didn't actually find myself becoming intrigued or looking forward to anything. Nothing seemed to be really going on with Anne, and really just was a book based on the passing of time for Anne.
There is something that stood out for me, that I can kind of forgive, due to the time it was written in 1909, but still, it's utterly unbelievable. Poor Diana was seen in a bad light, mostly to to with her weight, and what surprised me the most was the fact that Anne never once reasssured her that regardless of her weight, she is still wonderful, and really her weight means absolutely nothing.
I do very much love Anne overall, even though she was rather flat in this book, I am hoping the rest of the series will improve for me.

Ania i Gilbert <3

about 3.5 stars

I’ve read this several times already, the first as a young teen. This sequel to Anne of Green Gables covers two years, which is Anne ages 16-18 while she is the local school teacher.

Montgomery does a good job at making everyday life interesting—I tend to avoid everyday life in books because I get enough of it in everyday life. Still, some of the longer descriptions about nature got dull.

As a classic, it’s nice to see 19th-century people acting like people of that time. (I still have to cringe a little at the attitudes of child-rearing: By telling children to be quiet and stop asking questions, they’re stifling scientific discovery and the development of faith. They won’t even answer children’s basic religious questions and expect them to have faith? That doesn’t work.)

The audiobook narrator does a fine job with the narration but tries too hard when doing dialogue. The characters come off rather cartoonish.

Hermoso!
siempre me deja una sensación de que la vida es hermosa y los malos aprendizajes pueden tener un lado positivo si te empeñas en tener una mirada distinta.

Lo amé, siempre es un placer leer esta saga.
amo las historias de Anne, sus aventuras, las personas con las que se cruza, lo que espera que pase y termina pasando otra cosa. me encanta Gilbert Blythe, amo a los dos.
y me encantó ese final, fue dulce y esperanzador, siempre acierta con las palabras adecuadas para sus finales Lucy M. Montgomery.

voy a seguir con esta historia si o si..

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I just LOVE Anne

به نظرم عجیبه که وقتی بزرگتر میشی یه جوری عوض میشی که ممکنه دیگه به شخصیتای قبلی همزاد پنداری نکنی یا به طرز شگفت انگیزی اونایی برات دوست داشتنی شن که قبلا معمولی بودن
الان که خوندن سه باره ی مجموعه رو شروع کردم، آنی 18 ساله ی معلم و محجوب و متین رو کمتر از قبل دوست دارم ولی آنی کوچولوی 11 ساله که قبلا خیلی درکش نمی کردم رو خیلی بیشتر از قبل و بیشتر از این یکی آنی بزرگسال تر شده و موقر دوست داشتم!

2023 Review
If Miss Lavendar was the only plotline in this book I would love it just as much. I still find Davy/Dora bland but it bothered me less this time around. There is a quietude to Anne of Avonlea that fills my soul with a gentle hush and I never want to let it go. Each book in this series is a favorite for me in a way, and in this one it's Miss Lavendar, the Golden Picnic, and spending more time with the characters who inhabit Avonlea.

2021 Review
Anne of Avonlea is one book in the series whose joys I forget until I read it again (hence the list of loves below). Miss Lavendar, the golden picnic, that final scene with Gilbert. Montgomery delivered the "flowers of quiet happiness" that she promised in Green Gables. I might have downgraded this a star because of ~issues~ detailed in the next paragraph, but Miss Lavendar crowns my enjoyment always. Our cottagecore queen! If I could move into any literary house, it would be Echo Lodge.

Davy has never been my favorite character, and Montgomery writes Dora terribly. I don't know why she did that. Dora is just like a young Marilla, but she gets no narrative graces from the author like Marilla does. The one time she feels like a human little girl is when she's scared by her schoolmate's stories. Even when Davy royally messes up Dora's life, Montgomery plays off Dora's pain as slightly ridiculous. Imagine, being a five-year-old with a wackadoo brother and a dying mother. You choose personal neatness and quietude as ways to maintain some sort of control over your completely unstructured life, and people make fun of you for it! Poor thing. I know she gets no narrative justice later on, so I'll just have to imagine it for myself.

Side note, I love the cover of this edition. My copies of the Anne books were all mismatched for years, and my husband gave me this lovely set for Christmas one year. Most of the time, I don't count on book covers reflecting the contents with detail, but this cover illustration by Julene Harrison shows real familiarity with Anne of Avonlea (as did the cover for Green Gables, but the choices were more generic). The A.V.I.S. sign, the cow and broken fence, Ginger! Simply charming.

2019 Review

Reasons why I love this book:
- The ruckuses Anne causes/finds herself in, including:
- Setting up/fixing marriages
- Improving Avonlea with results that turned her blue
- Managing the twins
- Miss Lavendar
- The general Avonlea-ness of it all

I'm so glad L. M. Montgomery wrote this book. For anyone who's had to put dreams on hold (or felt like they were on hold, even if it was just time moving too slowly), Anne of Avonlea will resonate. Anne grew so fast in Green Gables that it's lovely to watch her slow down and enjoy life (while she grows and changes) in Avonlea. Taking a couple "gap years" was a good thing for Anne. Can we acknowledge that "gap year" is annoying and should be eliminated from our understanding of young adulthood? Take a year to do what you need/want to before moving on to what society tells you is the next step in life. It's not like you're taking a year off from living, you're just making a different decision. Say you're postponing XYZ for a bit, or focusing on something else for a while. No judgment. Life moves pretty fast--if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Dear old Island is my very favorite in the series, but I do love Avonlea for its realistic dreaminess. The quietness of Anne's and Marilla's griefs over Matthew underscores so much of the book. Avonlea is about second chances, new leases on life, adapting lifestyles to serve and love others, and growing into womanhood.

(Somehow, I always remembered that Anne and Diana had met Lavendar Lewis in the summer. Yet, they met in October. How utterly precious, since October is my favorite month, and delightful, for they meet in the fall and bring spring to Lavendar's life.)

Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2), L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea is a Canadian and American novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909. Following Anne of Green Gables (1908). Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who is teaching at the nearby White Sands School. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و پنجم ماه سپتامبر سال2012میلادی

عنوان: آنی در آونلی - کتاب دوم؛ نویسنده ال.ام مونتگمری؛ مترجم: محمد حفاظی؛ تهران، نشر نقطه، سال1377؛ در380ص؛ شابک9645548500؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، نشر هرم، سال1384؛ در380ص؛ شابک9649557148؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان کانادا - سده20م

عنوان: آنی شرلی در اونلی - کتاب دوم؛ نویسنده: ال.ام مونتگمری؛ مترجم: سارا قدیانی؛ تهران، نشر قدیانی، سال1386؛ در414ص؛ چاپ سوم1388؛ چاپ هفتم سال1392؛ شابک9789645361950؛

دومین کتاب از سری کتاب‌های «آن شرلی»؛ «آن شرلی»، اینبار، پس از دوره دیدن در آکادمی «کوئین»، در مدرسه ی «آونلی» آموزگار است، او انجمن اصلاح روستا را نیز تشکیل می‌دهد، «گیلبرت بلایت»، که در جلد پیشین، برای رویدادی، با «آنی» قهر کرده بود، دوباره با او دوست و عاشق و دلباخته ی «آنی» موقرمز میشود

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 29/03/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 30/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Finally, after a lot of huffing and puffing, I am done with Anne of Avonlea, the second book of the Anne of Green Gables series. Sadly, the book didn't entirely live up to my expectations, but I think I am more to blame for that than the book itself.

Long ago, I had watched the old Anne of Avonlea movie of 1987. So somewhere, I had expected the book to be exactly the same story. But now I realise that the movie might have been based on some subsequent Anne book(s) because most of the things that occur in the movie aren't even in this book's timeline. Well, time will tell!

Anne of Avonlea details Anne's life from ages sixteen to seventeen. She is literally at the threshold of womanhood, but has not yet abandoned her girlhood. She looks at life with the same carefree attitude, she is still on the lookout for "kindred spirits", and she is as imaginative as ever!

There are some very interesting new characters who make an appearance in this book: The Harrisons, Ms. Lavendar (sic), Paul Irving, Charlotte the Fourth, and a little incorrigible guy named Dave. The old favourites are also present and equally lovable.

I found most of the first half pretty rambling and repetitive. Dave's antics seemed to be the same in every alternate chapter. Anne's silly goofs & blind idealism continue. Most of all, the recurring elaborate description of trees and streams and other elements of nature gets on your nerves after a point.

But enter Ms. Lavendar and you see the book transform. The second half of the book is entirely charming and thrilling, so by the time you reach the end, you have a sigh of satisfaction rather than relief. No regrets reading the book at all if the end is great!



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I loved the book Anne of Green Gables so much. I enjoyed this book, but it did not have the same impact on me that the first one did. There was much about this book that I loved, but I did miss Anne as a child. She is becoming an adult, a better adult than most.

I did love the hilarious things the children said. I mean they were things I could hear any child saying. Davey was a little crazy. That kid has some sociopathic tendencies. Still, he was so funny. He enjoyed causing some excitement around that place. It was pretty amazing. Davey's poor sister though was so boring even the adults thought she was boring.

Paul was another good student. I liked him. He was very Anne-like. The children were the highlight of the book. Lucy Montgomery really know how to write children. It is her gift.

Anne is a teacher at like 16 going on 17. She teaches for one year before she is going on to college. This is the year that the book covers. She is a young teacher. She also doesn't want to squash the imagination and hopes of children. She wants to befriend them instead of corporeal punishment. That is funny too as everyone keeps telling her to beat the children.

I thought the book was a little long in places and the story dragged a little. I am also used to a faster pace thanks to modern literature. It's nice to slow down the pace of story and read something different. Still, the language does cast a spell and Prince Edward Island seems magical.

I look forward to reading the next one. This is a wonderful series.

Review January 2021: I closed this book with a smile on my face. It's not my favorite of this series, the pace is definitely a lot slower compared to book 1 and 3 but I love it all the same. Also that quote I mention below still stands as my favorite.

Review June 2017: I remember reading this book at 12 or 13 and being underwhelmed by it. And then re-reading it two or three years later and just wanting to skip ahead to book #3 because it did not have enough of the romance between Gilbert and Anne that book 3 has.

But upon a slow re-read now, I realize that this book is fantastic on its own. Anne at ages 16 to 18 is wonderful. She doesn't chatter so much as she did when she was younger but instead her stories are more elegant and lovely and I love how romantic she still is but at a different level then her at 11 years old. We get the introduction of Paul Irving, Miss Lavender, Charlotta the Fourth, Davy and Dora and Mr Harrison. We get to read about Uncle Abe and his prophesy, Anthony Pye and Anne's Jonas day and the Avonlea Village Improvement Society (which is NOT for the improvement of people btw). And then the ending, which has one of my favorite paragraphs of all the books.

“For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities. 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, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. ”