خیلی بیشتر از جلد اول دوستش داشتم،میتونم بگم کاملا باهاش زندگی کردم :))
یک سوم کتاب رو هم هایلایت کردم از بس همشو دوست داشتم

The book Anne of Green Gables I really liked and I had hoped this second book would be better or a continue of the feelings I had. I just couldn't get into it. It was too slow and simple at times. It might just have been me, but I wished I liked it more. There for only 3 points and hoping that book 3 would be nicer.

این جلد خیلی خیلی خیلی جذاب و شیرین بود..
عاشقشم بخدا

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".

داستان این جلد در مورد آنه‌۱۷ساله‌ای هست که معلم اونلی شده و با دوستاش یه انجمن اصلاح تشکیل داده و همچنین ماریلا از یه دوقلو  نگهدار�� میکنه

زندگی کردن با آنی شرلی، از من آدم خوشحال‌تر، مثبت‌نگر‌تر و سرزنده‌تری می‌سازه، باعث میشه که با دقت تر به آدم های اطرافم نگاه کنم، و هرکدومشون رو همونطوری که هستن، با نقاط تاریک و خاکستری و سفیدشون، ببینم و همونطوری دوست داشته باشم. باعث میشه مثل بچگی ها بتونم تو تخیلاتم غرق شم، ابرها رو به شکل های خاصی ببینم، و با آدمای سنگی جزیره ارتباط بگیرم.
آنی شرلی، روزای سخت و یکنواخت و دلگیرم رو رنگ می‌پاشه و بهم جزییات ریز و لبخند به لب آوری رو یادآوری می‌کنه. من خوش شانسم که آنی شرلی قصه، لباس واقعیت تنش کرده و به دنیای من اومده، تا رنگِ روزها باشه، تا بهم یاد بده چطوری پذیرای اتفاق های مختلف زندگیم باشم و زندگی رو یه مسیر ببینم و از در مسیر بودن لذت ببرم، نه فقط در انتظار رسیدن مقصد، خودم رو خسته کنم.
گلِ زردِ وحشیِ خودرو، وسط بیابون زندگیم. آنی شرلیِ من

Until I started reading Anne of Green Gables late last year, I had no idea there was a whole series of Anne books. As I enjoyed the first one far more than I expected I would, I decided to crack on with the series entire.

While this second book doesn’t have quite the charm or the laughs of the first book, and increased the twee/romance level slightly more than I thought necessary, I still enjoyed it a great deal. Call it 3.5 stars, rounded up.

P.S. It kind of blows my mind that there were sixteen year olds working as teachers back in these pre-war days, to be honest. I wouldn’t trust most sixteen year olds to make me a cup of tea, let alone educate my kids...

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

Gosh, how I hated this book. As most of you know I LOVE (absolutely adore) the first book in the series, Anne of Green Gables. I loved every single character and even though many people find Anne annoying, I really took her into my heart. I also love the Netflix adaptation Anne with an E, I fell in love with Prince Edward Island, Diana, Marilla and Matthew, even good ole Rachel Lynde. It has become a comfort show for me. So my expectations for the second book were high. I was super excited to see a more grown up Anne, to accompany her on all the silly adventures and scrapes she would get herself into as a young woman but no! what we got is a moralising tale that got on my goddamn nerves.

My biggest gripe with this book is not that it's hella boring (barely anything of significance happens) but that all of the new characters (Davy, Dora, Mr Harrison, Ms Lavendar, Paul Irving etc.) are so shitty and boring that they pale in comparison to the ones we already fell in love with in the first book. On top of that, many of our beloved characters, first and foremost Anne herself, feel very different, so much so that they are barely recognisable, most of her actions feel so out of character. It's a shit show.

But let's start in the beginning! Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school. I was very excited to finally see Anne as a teacher but what Montgomery does with her in this position is infuriating. Anne is the worst teacher ever. But more on that later.

The book soon introduces Anne's new and problematic neighbour, Mr. Harrison, and his foul-mouthed parrot, as well as the twins, Davy and Dora. They are the children of Marilla's third cousin and she takes them in when their mother dies while their uncle is out of the country. Whilst Dora is a nice, well-behaved girl, her brother Davy is the exact opposite, much more of a handful and constantly getting into many scrapes.

As many reviewers have pointed out, the favoritism that Anne and Marilla exhibit, favoring Davy over Dora, despite (or because of) his more riling and original nature, is infuriating. At one point, Anne says to Marilla: "I like Davy better than Dora, for all she’s so good.", and she agrees with her. It's so bad. Davy is probably the most annoying (!) character in this entire series. I hated him with a passion. Montgomery uses him in such a gimmicky way and none of the scrapes he gets into are fun or entertaining to read about. She uses him to teach her readerships lessons on how to behave properly and how to raise children. No, thanks. On top of that, it's pretty misogynist that Anne and Marilla dislike Dora so, she's too "boring", too perfect for me. Excuse me, what? She's just a kid. And she deserves as much attention and love as her wild brother.

Other characters introduced are some of Anne's new pupils, such as Paul Irving, an American boy living with his grandmother in Avonlea while his widower father works in the States. He delights Anne with his imagination and whimsical ways, which are reminiscent of Anne's in her childhood. And here lies another problem. Just as with Davy and Dora, Anne exhibits favoritism when it comes to her students as well, which makes her the worst teacher ever. She is so judgemental of all students who aren't like her. At one point she thinks of one of her students: "Annetta is a quiet little puss and a model of good behaviour, but there isn’t a shadow of originality in her." Who says that about their own students?? My God. When one of her students trips on her way to the chalkboard, Anne says to her:

n  “Really, Barbara”, she said icily, “if you cannot move without falling over something you’d better remain in your seat. It is positively disgraceful for a girl your age to be so awkward.”n

What the hell? Does that sound like the Anne of the first book to you? What has gone wrong here? And I understand that Montgomery wanted to show how Anne struggles to find her footing as a teacher but I genuinely think that her character changed so much that she is barely recognisable. Her actions and words simply don't ring true. I also hated the whole ordeal with Anthony, a boy in her class who kept disrespecting her. Anne tried reasoning with him but at the end, the one thing that wins Anthony over is when she beats him like his dad used to, even though in the beginning she vowed to never whip any children. It's bonkers. Her weird obsession with Paul is also uncomfortable to read about from a modern perspective. Like, we get it, you see yourself in him, but chill, girl. Montgomery describes Paul as follows: "There is nothing weak or girlish about him in spite of his dreams and fancies. He is very manly and can hold his own in all games." Okay, thanks, I hate it here.

Later in the book, Anne and her friends meet Miss Lavendar Lewis, a sweet but lonely lady in her 40s who had been engaged to Paul's father 25 years before, but parted from him after a disagreement. At the end of the book, Mr. Irving returns and he and Miss Lavendar marry. This was quite the sweet subplot but I unfortunately didn't care. I didn't like Miss Lavendar and was much more interested in her (horrible) treatment of her maids, whom she all named Carlotta. But no, we must focus on the eccentric old lady because she's oh-so special. Cool.

Anne discovers the delights and troubles of being a teacher, takes part in the raising of Davy and Dora, and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society) together with Gilbert, Diana, and Fred Wright, though their efforts to improve the town are not always successful. The Society takes up a subscription to repaint an old town hall, only to have the painter provide the wrong colour of paint, turning the hall into a bright blue eyesore. This book sees Anne maturing slightly, even though she still cannot avoid getting into a number of her familiar scrapes, including selling Mr. Harrison's cow after mistaking it for her own, accidentally rubbing red dye on her nose before meeting a famous author, and getting stuck in a duck house roof while peeping into a pantry window.

Unfortunately, none of these silly little adventures are as fun as the ones in the first book. They're not as memorable or original. I also disliked how much of a backseat Anne's friendship to Diana took in this book. Whenever we see Diana she is only complaining about how fat she's gotten and by the end of the book she is married of to Fred Wright and we never see her again. NO, NO, NO.

Towards the end of the book, Mrs. Rachel Lynde's husband dies and Mrs. Lynde moves in with Marilla at Green Gables, allowing Anne to go to college at last. The only silver lining in this book because Rachel rooming with Marilla is all I needed in my life. In the last chapter, Anne and Gilbert make plans to attend Redmond College in the Autumn.

Personally, I really like Anne and Gilbert together but I fear that I like the idea of them (and the representation of them in the show Anne with an E) more than what Montgomery actually delivers. There are very few interactions between the two of them in this book but let's look at some significant moments:

n  She had a sudden realisation that Gilbert was a schoolboy no longer. And how many he looked—the tall, frank-faced fellow, with the clear, straightforward eyes and the broad shoulders. Anne thought Gilbert was a very handsome lad, even though he didn't look at all like her ideal man.n

So far ... so good? I mean, it's pretty standard romance, I guess, but I can live with that. Gilbert is a MANLY MAN (...good for him?) but not Anne's type (we all know she's kidding herself but whatever). What I have more of a problem with is how Gilbert views Anne:

n  In Gilbert's eyes Anne's greatest charm was the fact that she never stooped to the petty practices of so many of the Avonlea girls -- the small jealousies, the little deceits and rivalries, the palpable bids for favor. Anne held herself apart from all this, not consciously or of design, but simply because anything of the sort was utterly foreign to her transparent, impulsive nature, crystal clear in its motives and aspirations.n

It's giving: SHE'S NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS. And there's nothing I hate more than that trope. Get the fuck outta here. Anne is NOT special, no matter how hard Montgomery wants to drive the point home that Anne is a special snowflake who is superior to other girls, I assure you, SHE IS NOT.

However, I have to give Montgomery credit for the end of this book, and Gilbert and Anne's last conversation, because it truly hit me in the feels and made me sooo excited for the third book (jokes on me, because that turned out to be shit, but regardless). Listen to this:

n  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.n

Excuse me while I scream in a corner but this shit is PERFECT. Call me a hopeless romantic but I love everything about this scene. Montgomery found the exact right words here!

Another highlight for me was the callback to Matthew: "Anne had never missed her weekly pilgrimage to Matthew’s grave. Everybody else in Avonlea, except Marilla, had already forgotten quiet, shy, unimportant Matthew Cuthbert; but his memory was still green in Anne’s heart and always would be." Oh man, how I have still not recovered from his death. I love that Montgomery acknowledges his persistent impact on Anne's life.

***

TW: use of a derogatory term for indigenous people (I*jun)

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.

The way I'm obsessed with this series. Anne has to be one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

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