I just realized I never really did anything with this book, but I decided to dnf it. I listened to about half and realized I had fallen out of love with Anne Shirley. She was such a beautiful creative unique child, but as a grown up she’s lost a lot of her charm and i just wasn’t digging what I had listened to.

I will sadly be dnfing the series but the first book will always be dear to me.

2019: 5/5
2023: 5/5 uwielbiam całym sercem

I'm re-reading the Anne series at the moment, even though I've read them all many MANY times before. I know lots of people who think it's odd to read the same book multiple times, but for me there are some books I just never get sick of, and I find it immensely soothing to read something that is completely predictable and familiar.

Anyway that said this has always been my LEAST favourite of the series and a bit of a chore to plough through in order to get to Anne of the Island and then Anne of Windy Poplars, the two best ones. I find Anne very hard to like in this one mainly because she is so obnoxiously perfect. Even in the scene where she dyes her nose red and opens the door to the famous author whilst covered in feathers, she acts so dignified that everyone is impressed anyway.

This book also contains Davy, Dora AND Paul Irving in one fell swoop of irritating children characters. Davy is a big pain in the butt - the 'loveable-ness' that apparently makes everyone prefer him over poor maligned Dora just does NOT come through. The scene where he locks her in Mr Harrison's barn and then lies about it so that everyone's frantically searching for her! For some reason the main thing that upsets everyone about this is that he 'told a falsehood' (though he apparently didn't realise this was wrong, which I am VERY skeptical about). So telling a lie is wicked, but locking your sister in some cold, dark barn for most of the day without any food as a joke is totally fine, apparently. But even HE is not as bad as Paul Irving, whose long sickly speeches I always skip. "I think violets are the souls of flowers.... the GOOD flowers..." etc etc URGH. What a little twerp.

İlk kitaptan çok daha eğlenceliydi :)) Yer yer kahkaha atarak gözümde kalplerle okudum. Özellikle Davy'nin dahil olduğu bölümleri! Davy'yi evlat edinebilir miyim? Sana tüm reçeller feda olsun, yeter ki benim çocuum ol ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ

I LOVE ANNE SO MUCH.
This book was a great continuation of her story and I love seeing Anne and her friends start to become adults while still keeping their fantastic personalities.
Gilbert is also my fave forever especially because he is WAITING FOR HER without expecting anything beyond friendship - though he is still hopeful, he's more concerned about being a man worthy of her while being her friend, not convincing her he's a "nice guy".

I was more enchanted by this book the first time I read it. More recently, I was put off by the description of the pair of twins Anne and Marilla adopt: Davy and Dora.

Davy is a handful, asking impossible questions, getting into trouble and so forth. Dora is quiet and well-behaved. Anne and Marilla love Davy more (by their own words). The idea is repeated three or four times. Good little Dora is respectable, obedient, predictable and boring; she just doesn't need as much attention and direction as Davy does, and thus is less lovable.

I found this idea actually repulsive. I kept thinking it would serve Anne and Marilla right if little Dora -predictable, obedient, second class Dora- shaved her head, pierced her nipple, got pregnant and ran off with a Hell's Angel, just because she figured out that the trouble maker rated higher in their affections. Aren't they familiar with the saying "still waters run deep?" Someone has to care enough about this quiet, obedient, seemingly unimaginative person to find out what her interests and passions are.

Yes, I remember liking L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Avonlea immensely when I first read it as a young teenager, and during my recent rereads, I have still managed to enjoy most of the story (most of the featured episodes) almost as much as I did then, especially the anecdotes about the Avonlea Village Improvement Society (AVIS). But even more than the AVIS interludes, I have been rather pleasantly surprised at how much I have loved reading about both Paul Irving and Lavendar Lewis (two characters to whom I did not really feel all that drawn when I first read Anne of Avonlea
However, I did and do find myself having rather major problems universally liking the character of Davy Keith. And indeed, it is not Davy's rather mischievous nature that I find problematic, but the fact that he is so often deliberately cruel and nasty to his twin sister Dora. Not only that, but I have also and with flustered sadness noticed that Dora is more often than not ignored and denigrated by almost everyone, from Anne to even Mrs. Lynde, simply because she is a quiet, unobtrusive child (and "must" therefore by extension also be boring and monotonous). And when one recalls what Anne's own childhood was like, and how she was both emotionally and spiritually neglected before she came to Green Gables, it is supremely ironic and annoying that Anne now seemingly approaches Dora in a similar manner, often ignoring her because Davy's exploits are more interesting, or more to the point, are perceived as being more interesting.

Furthermore, I also tend to believe that there is actually a rather uncritical acceptance by L. M. Montgomery herself, as Anne's (and others') often rather negative assumptions of and towards Dora are never really actively criticised (yes, Anne realises that she might have a bit of an unfair and careless attitude towards Dora, but even though she is aware of this, she does not really ever strive to rein in her at times quite overt favouritism of Davy, and actually even attempts to justify it to herself and others). And as someone who also was rather quiet and unobtrusive as a child and teenager, this has quite bothered me during my recent rereads and continues to more than somewhat chafe (strangely enough though, when I was a teenager, when I first read Anne of Avonlea, this fact did not seem to bother me all that much, although at that time, I often did feel rather ignored and under-appreciated by both my family and the world).

Now I would still most strongly recommend this novel, as well as the entire Anne of Green Gables series. It is just that Anne of Avonlea, while certainly magical, does indeed and in my opinion have its potential issues (at least it did and does for me), with specifically the often overt favouritism of Davy Keith over his sister, over Dora, being majorly potentially problematic, a favouritism actually made considerably worse by the fact that it also so often seems universally accepted, even justified (and thus, from the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of Avonlea while definitely enjoyable, does also not rank amongst my personal favourites).

I've read Anne of Green Gables over 7 years ago and it became a favorite, but I never continued the series. Picking the second book up so many years later, I was a little nervous I might not like it, but my fears turned out to be groundless.

Anne of Avonlea reads like a collection of anecdotes of a village life. It is fluffy and cute, innocent without being preachy and gives one a warm feeling inside. It was also funny - I laughed out loud many times throughout the book.

Avonlea is full of good people. They help each other. They do the best they can. They fail (mostly in a hilarious way), but still, they try. And this is your ticket to watch them do it. Anne is growing up and faces new questions about the world and herself. Though she is mostly in the background in this book, serving as an observer who integrates all the short stories about the side-characters.

The book was delightful and insubstantial, like a mousse dessert. It is definitely not plot-driven - it passes over you like a collection of clouds and you may make of it what you will. I think I'll continue reading the series, but probably translated to one of the languages I need improvement in.

4.5⭐️

The middle was a little slow, but that ending was so poignant! Montgomery sure knew how to write a romance!! (Sanderson should take some pointers.

This sequel was just as good as the first one "Anne of Green Gables". It was nice, comfortable, endearing and at times hilarious. In this book, we get to follow Anne as she grows up to become a woman, and the new set of characters (as well as the well-known ones from the first book) are great. Montgomery has managed to create a world which can only bring a smile to your face, and so I'm obviously excited to get back to it whenever I decide to pick up the third book.

OH Marilla!

Anne's back! She older and wiser and more beautiful than that gangly red-headed girl that first came to Avonlea. This book walks us through Anne as a older teenager, she's back as a schoolteacher at the local school with difficult pupils, she refuses to rule by corporal punishment, but simply to treat her students with kindness. Marilla ends up adopting two twins who are orphaned- Dora & Davy and little Davy just stole my heart in this story. My other favorite was Miss Lavender and her story. Another batch of Anne was just what I needed to break up some of the deeper, darker reading out there right now.

I must confess after reading Anne of Green Gables, I was enthralled. I then did watch Anne with an E on Netflix and became HOOKED! Cannot wait to now continue on with the series as all kindred spirits must.

خیلی بیشتر از جلد اول دوستش داشتم،میتونم بگم کاملا باهاش زندگی کردم :))
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