Two stars = It was fine.

I love LM Montgomery’s writing in general, and I love most everything she’s written. This? I like this. I do. It’s just…..fine.

It is a collection of short stories (a chapter each) about people that know Anne and Gilbert and their family. That’s the only thread that ties them all together. Sure, there are snippets of Anne and Gilbert that come in, comments they make to each other about the main characters of each short story, but not much more of them.

Reading it is what I imagine reading stories the author created for the world of the Blythe family, but didn’t make any plot progress happen in Anne and Gilbert’s world. It doesn’t pretend to either. It’s not claiming to be anything but what it is. Which is okay.

It is fine. (Have I said that already? Haha!) it is. Truly. Great writing and sharp wit. But I don’t seek it out.

That said, when I do pick it up, I completely fall in love the people, their sassy humor, and the gossipy social commentary. I get lost in each chapter, but that’s it. I’m done as soon as one finishes.

So it’s a DNF *for now*. I might pick it up again tomorrow and read more, but more than likely it will wait. It’s been over a week since I last read a chapter so it feels like it’s time to return it to the library. I’m more inclined to pick up Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne’s House of Dreams (love Captain Jim’s life philosophy), or Rilla of Ingleside. Those are all comfort reads for me.

Have you read this? What were some of your favorite stories? What are your comfort reads?
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A collection of stories about people who have a connection to the Blythe family, even if it's just that they have heard of them. These Island stories span a good deal of time and range from laugh inducing to vengeful, but are mostly charming romances.

Definitely not my favorite of L.M. Montgomery. Some of the plots feel repetitive, and all the characters generic and predicitable. Basically just short stories about random people distantly connected to the Blythe's

This book is the same as "The Blythe are Quoted". And they certainly were! It was a bit ridiculous how many times they were mentioned (except for poor Shirley.. even I forgot about him ) They are the most "perfect family, the most attractive, the most loving, the slenderest, the most loyal", etc, etc. They were even mentioned by people living outside of Glen St. Mary! And characters in the stories were also among the lines of "if you mention the Blythe/Susan Baker one more time I'll smash your head!". But I love them dearly, and since each story happens between Anne of Ingleside and Rilla of Ingleside it was like watching the kids grow and settle down (the last story even mentions Anne's grandson, who may go to war... Anne as a grandma!  She will always be a skinny redhead young girl in my mind).

So in that sense, I think only fans, real fans of Anne, should read this collection of stories. In my case, I love them all. Two stories were vividly in my mind even after years of reading this book for the first time, and that are "The pot and the kettle" and "Here comes the bride".

I've read this for the first time many years ago when I found this gem in a second-hand bookstore, back when we didn't have e-books and I didn't know the existence of Amazon. So it has a double reason to love it as much as I do <3

Five things about The Roa to Yesterday by LM Montgomery. 3/5⭐️s

1. It’s hard to rate short story collections. I enjoyed some more than others but overall the just wasn’t my favorite writing by Montgomery.
2. Many of these were surprisingly dark. Sinister, even.
3. Every story connects in some way o the Blyths but none of them are actually aboutAnne or Gilbert.
4. Even the stories that are meant to be or at least end happily have a sadness about them.
5. Definitely not what I’ll reach for first when I want to read some LM Montgomery.

Pidin Annan jäähyväisistä enemmän kuin odotin :) Yleisesti ottaen tykkäsin novelleista enemmän kuin runoista. Kuitenkin runoissa pidin siitä, että niissä palattiin Kotikunnaalle ja Anna ja muut olivat äänessä, kun taas novelleissa he ovat sivuhenkilöitä. Oli mukava huomata runon "Huilunsoittaja" olevan mukana, koska olen halunnut lukea sen siitä asti, kun se sarjassa mainittiin.

I collect L. M. Montgomery's books. I never found her short stories as interesting as her other books that I read in my teens. But I recently discovered that her short stories are perfect to read before bed to keep my mind from racing. They're not interesting enough to keep you up at night and they're short enough to not leave you in suspense. Her short stories keep me calm cause they remind me that people are people and we're all kind of absurd. I don't know why that's calming, but it is.

Sadly, these short stories really didn't hold up from what I remembered of them. Montgomery was definitely better at full-length novels than short stories.

"Sweetheart ... joy ... delight... wonder. Don't look so furious, darling. Don't you know that when you look at a man with eyes like that you are simply asking him to kiss you? You are mine, Susette. I've made you mine with that kiss. You can never belong to anyone else."

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اگر سبک کتاب‌های کلاسیک دوست دارید، این کتاب یه داستان جذاب و احساسی و پر ماجرا که عاشق فضا و شخصیت‌هاش میشین.
من عاشق این سبک داستان‌هام
خانوادگی و هیجان‌انگیز و پر از درس
سریالی هم از این کتاب ساخته شده که بسیار جذابه پیشنهاد می کنم

The Road to Yesterday was a collection of short stories that I felt were more novellas than short stories. A few of the short stories were what I believed to be novellas. Some of them I felt were off shoots from the previous novel and discussed life after world war 1. Some of the short stories were very well written and made me laugh, others I found were a little less desirable. One particular story was interesting and made me think that the character did deserve to get what was coming to them.
Overall, the series itself was good. I did enjoy the series but I’m not sure if I would read it again.

This was an interesting collection of short stories about the folk in and around Glen St. Mary. The one thing they each had in common was that the characters knew of and spoke about Anne and Gilbert and their family. However, each story was complete in and of itself, and had no bearing on the ones before or after it.
I think my favourite of all the stories was the one titled "The Cheated Child". Little Pat was so wise for his age, and I love that he was able to find his true forever home.