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.

After the first book about Anne, I was a bit late to read this one. That's mostly due to the fact that at first it completely failed to draw me in. I felt like it's just filler up to like a third of the book in! Where's all the fun? Where did Anne's spunkiness go?



But thankfully, the book picked up, and by the end I can say I enjoyed it almost as much as the first one. I'll certainly be reading on! n  I've decided to give you 5 reasons to read about Anne,n so here we go. If you want to read this with proper formatting, go ahead and read it here on my blog.

The Shenanigans



The funny scrapes Anne gets into is part of the fun in stories about her. So at first, as I was reading it, I was so baffled by the fact that Anne grew up – a school mistress now, what fun is there even going to be?? At first it does go like that, but it picks up, and n  you've got Anne traipsing around Green Gables making a fool of herself as always. Hilarity ensues. n(I won't be kidding when I say I literally laughed out loud about the roof scene. Good lord.)

The Kids



There are a lot of children in this book, and if you've read Montgomery before, you'll know that she is great at writing them. From the best to the worst - n  you'll find kids with a heart, kids with a brain, and kids that basically crawled their way up from helln (I'm looking at you, Davy Keith.) Good or bad, they are truly entertaining to read about and something chug out some quite deep thoughts. (Although I was a little sad Dora was so disregarded because she was 'too good and docile')

The Romance



Oh, the romance. If you're thinking anything n  finally nhappens between Anne and Gilbert – well, think again. But Montgomery has some other romance to offer, and it's truly adorable in the way it can be only from this particular time - the turn of the century. So innocent, so beautiful and lovely, so plainly obviously orchestrated - in a way that makes you like it even more. n  Swoon!n

The Feel



I will risk repeating myself, but I can't take away from the book. n  Anne of Avonlea will let you enjoy another "episode" oh the calm and quiet that you loved when you were reading the first book.n Most of us long for something like that... once we get old and overworked enough, I suppose. The promise of green, rolling fields, sunshine and flowers picked in the field.............



The Promise For More

As it's the second book, you're getting into a sort of pleasant sync with the story. And you don't want it to end. n  The ending of Anne of Avonlea promises our heroine a nice, bright future just round the bend, and you'll want to find out all about it.n It reminds me the time I was going off to university myself, off to a new start, to a life I knew nothing about. So let's hope that it will be as Anne would probably hope it would be:



So that's why I think you should continue with this series! It might be slow to start, but it gets good afterwards. I'm sure you'll enjoy it if you pick it up.

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

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!

الحياة مستمرة في المرتفعات الخضراء، بلغت آن السادسة عشر وأصبحت مستعدة لممارسة مهنة التدريس في مدرسة آفونلي.
في أجواء مختلفة تتدرج فيها الفصول وألوان الطبيعة، تحرز آن شيرلي تقدمًا سلسًا في قلوب طلابها الصغار، وفي قلوب سكان جزيرة الملك إدوارد عامة..
أما أنا، فلم أستطع المكوث هنا أكثر، في عالم الواقع الرمادي، حزمت حقيبة أحلامي بعد أن ملأتها بالكتب وبضع قبعات صوفية ومعطف من الجوخ الثقيل، انتظرت الوقت الذي نام فيه الجميع، وقفزت داخل الكتاب، إلى المرتفعات الخضراء، لم ألاقي صعوبة تُذكر في إيجاد منزل آل كوثبرت، المنزل الذي تطل منه فتاة صهباء نحيلة، بسبع أو ثمان نقاط فاتحة من النمش مرسومة على أنفها الصغير الدقيق.
العزيزة آن كم كبرت الآن، وكم خريف مضى منذ التقينا أول مرة في الجزء الأول من حكايتك، حين تعرفت عليك دون أن أعرفك، وقد تشيدت بيننا صداقة وثيقة، أدركت حينها، وأنا أنظر من خلال نافذتك الصغيرة أنّي أريد البقاء أكثر من أي شيء آخر، على التلال الخضراء، بين أشجار الزان والبتولا والتنوب، بينما تهبط الغيوم على قمم الجبال تعانق رؤوس أشجار الصنوبر المدببة، وتعانق قلبي.
ها أنا عدت مجددًا، وإذ بي أجد فتاة ناضجة تخبئ خلف هدوء المعلمة قصصًا خيالية وفيرة، وتنسدل على كتفيها خصلات بنية ملساء تحتفي بعبور الريح من خلالها.. سأدلف دون أن يراني أحد، أتذوق فطيرة برقوق ومربى الخوخ، أجلس على أريكة في الصالون مع كتابي وكوب الكابتشينو وقبعتي الصوفية والمعطف الشتوي، أستمع لأحاديث آن، ونراقب سوية ندف الثلج عبر النافذة، _فالفصول تحتشد جميعها في عالم الخيال وما على القارئ سوى استحضار الفصل الذي يريد_
تحضّر ماريلا المائدة خلال ذلك، تشعل الموقد وتغلي الشاي، ثم تدلف ديانا والسيدة ليند إلى المرتفعات، وبعد أن أستمع بسعادة لا توصف إلى أخبار آفونلي كما تنقلها السيدة راشيل، وأنهي كوب الشاي الدافئ، وأسلم على ديانا الجميلة، أعود مجددا إلى الواقع، وقد قطفت زهرة أضاليا صفراء عن رصيف الحلم، في طريق العودة من الخيال إلى الحقيقة.

أحداث هذه الرواية دافئة هادئة حلوة مثل قضمة من شطيرة بالعسل، زكية الرائحة مثل ورد البنفسج، ناعمة فضية مؤتلقة مثل يوم مشمس تغمر شمسه كل زاوية ثلجية على الأرض فتذيبها كما تذيب آن البؤس من قلب حزين.

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

I may or may not have searched Gilbert's name and mostly only read the Gilbert & Anne parts. (I may. I mean, I did.)

My opinion? There wasn’t enough Gilbert and Anne parts. (I ship them SO HARD.) And this book was boring. It seemed rambly and all over the place (the first book was rambly too, but interesting-rambling. This one was just rambly-rambling. And I didn’t care much for the new side characters and especially Davy who is a little shit and I HATE HIM (please, please don't be in the next book.)

Although I didn't quite enjoy this (I skimmed like crazy - I'm not sure if I should even count this as a legit read?) I'm still gonna read the next book. I need to see what happens with Anne and Gilbert.

That last scene- my heart. Omw.

This lacks a lot of the elements I so loved about the first book . . . and yet, it still holds a bit of that magic feeling you get when you hold an Anne book in your hands. <3

n   L I K E S:n

- the "golden day" chapter almost made me burst with happiness
- GILBERT AND ANNE FOREVERRRRRRR <3333 (can we talk about that last page, though?? *flails*)
- the friendship between Anne and Diana ALMOST made me cry. They shared some super sweet moments together that reminded me of myself and my bestie . . . and that was just so special.
- Marilla's sarcasm never fails to make me laugh; I don't even know why, haha
- The writing is just . . . *happy sigh*
- I want to live in Avonlea, please and thank you
- Paul Irving and Miss Lavender were lovely (though I wish less time had been spent on them)
- Anne's optimism and dreamy demeanor
- the parts where Anne was teaching were my fave
- so many good quotes, oh my
- honestly, the things this book had to say about change could not have come at a more poignant time in my life

n  D I S L I K E S:n

- not enough of Gilbert *grumpy face* (seriously, he only had a few scenes with Anne. I mean what now??)
- Although Davy grew on me, I was unsettled by the fact that Anne and Marilla clearly played favorites. They even admitted to liking him better than Dora, and that made me feel so bad for the poor girl.
- ehhhh, so I was kind of bored with it? Like, I loved a lot of things about it, but I got tired of seeing the same three characters (Paul Irving, Davy, and Miss Lavender) over and over again. Much as I liked most of them . . . it did get old after a while and I just wanted to get back to Gilbert and Anne.
and all the "original" characters. :P
- not enough time spent on Anne's teaching
- IT LACKED SOME OF THE MAGIC OF THE FIRST ONE *sniffles*
- okay, I promise I really liked it but . . . yeah. I'm a bit put out by a few things. ;)

Overall, I have a few qualms, but those two sections with Gilbert and Anne (LIKE THE LAST PAGE *squeals into eternity*) made the book. I'm definitely going to read the next one at some point because I need more of Anne and Gilbert pleaseeeeeee.

3.5 stars

Que adorable y alegres son estos libros ❤️

Ana la de Avonlea es el segundo libro de la serie de libros Ana la de tejas verdes. Si bien no me gustó TANTO como el primero si lo disfruté un montón.
Arranca este libro con una Ana de 16 años, que poco a poco va dejando la adolescencia atrás y se va transformando en una mujer adulta.
Ana empieza a trabajar de maestra en la escuela y a lo largo de la historia va a encontrarse con aventuras y dificultades.

Cada capítulo de este libro es una anécdota distinta, lo mismo que pasaba en el libro anterior. Pero leyendolos todos juntos vemos el crecimiento del personaje a partir de las cosas que le pasan en el día a día.
Me rei mucho, me emocioné y me gustaron mucho los nuevos personajes. La señora Lavender se ganó mi corazón. Y Paul Irving es un amor.

Algo que me gustó de este libro es el crecimiento de Ana, en algunos capítulos la veíamos mayor, cuidando a los niños y enseñándoles. Y en otros capítulos todavía veíamos la niña en ella, que supongo que no se perderá nunca.

Me encantó la historia, la disfruté un montón y recomiendo mucho esta saga, espero continuar pronto con el tercer libro

Spoiler alert: I'm going to read all the rest of these and give them all five stars.

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