Anne Of Avonlea

I thought I hadn't read this one before, but I had. It's as delightful as the first, and I made such happy noises at the end, with Anne and Gilbert. I wish there were a little more of Gilbert in this one, but that's my only complaint, really. That, and I miss Matthew.

This book, filled with enchanting words, has really touched my heart, but I will say, read the first book before this one. It will help you understand Anne’s early life and how much she greatly changed.

-An 11 year old fan

I had to take a week off from reading this book in the middle of it, and I have to say I missed it while I was away. I think I like "grown-up" Anne better than young Anne; this book sees her getting more interested in other people's lives than her own, and Avonlea becomes a richer place with the introduction of some new characters and a more nuanced look at the emotional lives of some of the old ones. Sometimes the book still reverts to its predecessor's frequent "one mishap per chapter" format, but otherwise I think this book shows Montgomery starting to grow as a writer. It may be a bit simpler than some "great" literature, but it is a simple pleasure, indeed.

I used to hide in the school library during my lunch hour and read all of the Anne of Green Gables books. Listening to this brought me great joy.

The second in the Anne series, Anne is now a full-fledged schoolmarm at the Avonlea school. Marilla becomes the guardian of twins, Davy who is full of mischief and Dora who is perfect. The two years in the book are full of Avonlea doings, a little romance and a lot of fun.

The second in the Green Gables series. Not as good as the first, but still great. Loved it.

The first sequel to 'Anne of Green Gables'. Anne is now 16 and begins teaching at the local school. she meets new people, affects lives positively and learns more about herself. Very moving in places, and overall an enjoyable light read.

This is quite possibly one of my favorite in the series. The others aren't nearly as dog-eared.

I do think this book (and any other by Montgomery) are a little tough to get through if you're older than 13. Mostly because of the very fluffy and antiquated language. But I love them!

Delightful, quaint continuation of Anne of Green Gables. Though much can be anticipated, there's still enough surprises. Timeless story, I'm looking forward to the next.

I began reading Anne of Avonlea, the second book in the Anne of Green Gables series, with some trepidation. I knew that the book would be different than its predecessor in the series. I was worried that the book would not have the childhood wonder, without which I knew that I could not enjoy it as much. The imagination of the character as she grows older would dim, somehow, or become less believable and enchanting, I feared. I could not have been more wrong. Yes, Anne Shirley is an adult, or what counted as grown-up at the time of the story, at sixteen years old. Yes, she acts, for the most part, as an adult. Yet, she does not lose her infectious enthusiasm, her imagination, or her wondrous ability to see the beauty in life. I will warn that there are minor spoilers to follow. The story begins shortly before Anne begins teaching at Avonlea School, a post which she took in order to help care for her foster mother Marilla Cuthbert when Marilla’s brother Matthew died at the end of the first book. She is involved with her good friend, and fellow teacher at a nearby school, Gilbert Blythe, in an “improvement society”. When the book begins, both of these noble pursuits are embarked upon with ever so many sophisticated, and naïve, theories, which Anne is forced to either modify or give up. Even this, however, does not dampen her idealism. It merely tempers it, teaching her how to direct her energies to accomplish the most good. Indeed, it was a joy to watch her learn, and grow throughout the story. It almost feels as if I am watching a real person. This is the magic of Montgomery’s writing. I found myself only finding fault with Montgomery when it came to some of her new characters in the story. Most of the new characters I took to just as eagerly as I did in the first story. The only issue I had was with the characters of Davy and Paul. Davy was one of Marilla’s distant relations that she took custody of upon the death of his and his sister’s Dora’s mother. Paul is a sweet-natured child that was one of Anne’s students. My problem with the characters was that Paul was so incredibly whiny that it drove me nuts, while Davy was a mouthy, rude, mean-spirited child who I wanted to reach into the story and give a good spanking. Eesh! Of course, the worst part of the characters was how we were not given a chance to accept them naturally on our own. Montgomery tries so hard to persuade the audience to like the two boys, and I believe that had she not tried so hard, but just wrote better characters in their places, I might have found them to be more likable. That said, there are several new characters to like. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. Harrison and Miss Lavender. I really liked the way that the Harrisons worked out their marriage issues. The surprise of Mrs. Harrison, and watching them work out their problems with each other was absolutely charming and quite comical. Miss Lavender was the fulfillment of a middle-aged Anne. It is a wonder to me that Montgomery could fall down on creating good younger versions of Anne in Davy and Paul, when she did such a marvelous job with Miss Lavender. Indeed, I am assured that Anne will always be an interesting character if Montgomery can capture her in her adult years the way that she captured Miss Lavender.The last forty or so pages were difficult to get through. This is not because they were badly written. No, indeed, they were marvelously written. It is because they were so full of watching a young woman realize that she has to change her life. We all know the feeling. We come to “bends in the road” as Anne puts it, and must choose how to act when we do so. Often it is painful to make these choices, but make them we must. I am sure that Anne will make the correct choice, despite the pain of it all. This is where I continue to find inspiration in Anne. She knows that there are hard things yet to come in life. She knows that it would be ever so much easier to not take the “bend in the road”. Yet she takes it all the same, because she knows that it is best for her. What is easy is not always what is right or good for us, and what is right or good for us is not always easy. Or so the old adage goes. There are so many issues and areas in which I would dearly, truly love to not take the “bend” that I know that I ought to take. Sometimes, such a bend is to do something, and sometimes it is not to do something that I wish to do. Either way, I must take that “bend”, or else risk losing out on something marvelous that the Lord has for me. Anne acknowledges that the Almighty has a hand in things, or what we would call Providence existing. I know that He does, and I am ready to follow Him. Despite the differences in age and temperament of Anne Shirley, this book was almost as beloved as the first one. It also taught me even more lessons about life. It is amazing that I have learned, indeed that I continue to learn, so much from a fictional character. Yet I have, and I do. That is the mark of a Classic, of a good book. Read this series, enjoy it, and see what you can learn as well. Explore the life and times of this red-headed heroine. I highly recommend this book.

Sequel to Anne of Green GablesI love happy endings

So great I loved it bast book ever ?good book

I loved Anne of Green Gables, and I wanted to read more, so I decided to read the series. Anne is still as imaginative, eccentric, and prone to the occasional scrape as she always was, but she has matured greatly since the first book. There are some new characters, and some old characters, and the town of Avonlea is still as charming as it was. This is a delightful read with new lessons to be learned, obstacles to be faced, and dreams yet to be woven. I recommend this book to everyone, especially if you long for those carefree days of childhood that is the happiest period of a person's life.

Anne of Avonlea is the second in the series, and sees Anne now teaching in the old Avonlea school. Because of Matthew's death, Anne has given up her dream of college in order to stay at Green Gables and help Marilla, whose eyesight is failing. As may be expected, Anne starts her teaching career with a great many pretty theories — several of which are proven wrong in funny ways. Anne is sixteen in this story, so the childish high jinks are left to six-year-old Davy Keith, whom Marilla adopts along with his docile twin sister Dora after their mother's death. This is the book in which we first meet Miss Lavendar, and I'm not sure why but I never really liked her very much. Even now I can't really analyze it. I never really cared for Paul either; despite Montgomery's assurances otherwise, he always came across as something of a wimp. Charlotta the Fourth is priceless, however, and not just for her voluminous bows and funny speeches. The parts when she is in her room trying to imitate Anne are so poignant. In some ways she reminds me of a character from a very different book, Sam Gamgee of The Lord of the Rings. Both are lower-class servants who dearly love the ones they serve and have a vague, inarticulate yearning for beauty. I suppose the comparison breaks down if you take it any further, but I'm reading The Lord of the Rings at the moment and noticed that similarity. L. M. Montgomery was a minister's wife; I wonder if she wrote the character of Mrs. Allan as herself — or perhaps who she wanted to be? I haven't delved into Montgomery's history, but from the little I do know, it seems her life was not particularly easy either. We only get hints of Mrs. Allan's worries... gossip that she dressed too prettily for a minister's wife, a "little grave" in the churchyard, another child's illness, her youth and bloom worn away, and eventually the call to Charlottetown, a bigger church with perhaps higher expectations. I wonder. Again, Montgomery does a wonderful job with her characters — especially Anne, who remains a consistent, believable character although she is now verging on adulthood. The dialogue is excellent, the anecdotes and village gossip hilarious, and the serious parts sincere. This installment is another of my favorites in the series, and a worthy sequel.

I thought I had read this before, but clearly I haven't -- I've only watched the 1987 film version a gazillion times during the public television pledge drives of my youth.Lovely. Though at some points I really wanted to reach between the pages and smack little Davy upside the head.

Excellent follow up to Anne of Green Gables

Another excellent installment in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne Shirley continues to enjoy life with her vivid imagination. Here, we find her teaching at Avonlea School and helping the area by forming an improvement society. She meets and befriends more members of the community and continues to enrich the lives of all those with whom she comes into contact.Favorite secondary characters: Davy Keith, Paul Irving, Miss Lavender Lewis, and Mrs. Rachel Lynde. Of course, I always have a spot in my heart for Anne and Marilla.Just pure joy.

A good easy read, Anne is pleasant company, full humor and pathos.

I've read Anne of Green Gables several times but have never made it through any of the sequel books before now, even though I've owned them for most of my life. I guess with the world being a dumpster fire, I've needed escapist reading now more than ever.Book #2 is quite delightful, scratching not only the itch for more of Anne & co, but also containing a rather sweet second chance romance between Mr. Stephen Irving (father of Anne's prized pupil Paul) and Miss Lavendar Lewis, which was a pleasant surprise. Anne herself is still a bit too much of a Mary Sue (everyone she ever meets loves her? Really??) but she is tolerable at least. Davy Keith irritated me to the extreme, especially since I get the feeling that we're supposed to find his antics precocious and adorable, like Karen Brewer. Poor Dora is described as basically being the human equivalent of cardboard. The twins were rather nicely rounded out in the Road to Avonlea TV series, so maybe there's hope for their book versions as well.

Picking up where the last book left off, Anne is still living at Green Gables with Marilla and beginning her career as a schoolteacher at the Avonlea school. As such, we meet new characters in the younger children who make up her classroom and some of their parents as well. Other characters are introduced for the first time in this story, including a new neighbor who is a bit of a curmudgeon and has a vulgar parrot for a pet as well as a lonely "old maid" who loves to pretend. And, of course, old favorites return, such as Anne's bosom friend Diana and her sometime rival Gilbert. Also, Marilla ends up taking in the twin children of a distant relative who passed away. These youngsters, Davy and Dora, are the worst part of this book in my opinion. As everyone in Avonlea loves to point out, Dora is a meek, submissive child with rarely a thought of her own, let alone a personality, and thus is extremely boring. On the other hand, Davey is full of ridiculous thoughts (including very dismissive views of women) and can't keep out of trouble. For some reason, everyone loves him because he is a rapscallion. I, however, do not. I feel like the author tried to make him a substitute for what Anne's character was in the first book, but he seems to revel in being bad on purpose, rather than young Anne's daydreaming and careless ways causing some unforeseen trouble that ends up being humorous rather than just showcasing a rebellious streak.Speaking of that, although Anne has matured greatly here (ages 16-18 in this book, compared to 11-16 in the previous title), she still occasionally has those moments of making mistakes that lead to hilarious scenarios, such as when she accidentally sells her neighbor's cow instead of own or when she, Marilla, and Diana all sugar the peas for a fancy dinner assuming no one else did or when she smears her nose with dye instead of lotion right before an unexpected guest arrives. These moments are delightful, capture the fun of the first book, and are the ones I recall from when I first read this book as a child so they are clearly memorable. While the first book mostly aged well, this one clearly did not. There are many unkind views of women espoused by numerous characters; even if these are sometimes dismissed by other characters, it's never as wholeheartedly as I would like. Among these are the idea that a woman of 45 is fully white haired and past her prime, which is just ridiculous. Further, there's many discussions where most characters are in favor of corporal punishment for schoolchildren, a practice which Anne discourages but ultimately, in an act of anger, engages in herself once to positive benefits. And, non-white, non-Canadian folks are looked down upon in throwaway lines that didn't really need to be there.This audiobook version also suffered from a very poor narrator. Her voice was very shrill for certain characters, such as Anne herself, and very stereotypical "hick" like for many of the male characters. She also sometimes made mistakes, like using her Marilla voice for Anne when she's having a discussion with Diana or using her Davy voice for Charlotta when she's having a discussion with Anne.Nevertheless, despite these problems, there were enough moments of whimsy and passages of beautiful prose that I am going to continue along with my journey of re-reading this whole series.

Not nearly as good as the first book, but still a sweet story.

I didnt enjoy this as much as Anne of Green Gables, not because it was bad but because I wasnt as familiar with the stories as I am the first book and so there wasnt that strong nostalgia for me. I find reading these books interesting for the characters I love but also because the books themselves are written in such a different time. Is it still considered historical fiction if it was contemporary fiction at the time it was published? In any case it is interesting to me because the choices and views of the characters are made in a different context and thus I end up judging them differently than I would if the book were written today.

This sequel to Anne of Green Gables is less fun than I remember. There's a lot of daydreaming about fairies and a naughty ah-shucks-boys-will-be-boys in Davy Keith that is not funny, but rather grotesque in the way he treats his twin sister Dora. And there is way less Gilbert than I remember as a kid. Not acceptable.

We also need to have a moment for schoolteacher Anne. Good gravy, she is SO EARNEST. Maybe it's because I'll be entering year 9 of teaching this fall, but my goodness, NOT EVERYONE WILL LIKE YOU. It's something you MUST make peace with at the very beginning of your teaching career, or you will spend so much time crying over your students. And you do not have that mental energy to spare. Granted, I have had the rare class where I had the ENTIRE approval of ALL the students in the class, and it's a damn delight to teach them. But they're unicorns you treasure in the average and less-than-average classes where you spend your time fantasizing about tattooing MLA citations on their bodies. Or maybe that's just me. But anyway. Teacher Anne. She's precious and naive, and it's really sweet.

I do like this book, but I think the childishness of her fancy is somewhat less fitting in this book than the first, when she was an actual child.

I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the first. It was a little slow moving and I just got a little bored with it. I'm not sure I will continue with the series since I have so many other books I want to read. I'm watching the original movies and plan to also watch the new series on Netflix though!

Anne is a "grown-up woman of 16". She is now a teacher. Yet she retains her sense of wonder and her amazing imagination. She enjoys teaching. She meets new "kindred spirits". And works to improve Avoanlea. A lovely, sweet book.

At first I was totally aware of how dated this book was in comparison to Anne of Greene Gables, but it didn't take long for the charm of the characters to take over and you are transported back to this world that you love without judgement.

Even though I enjoyed “Anne of Avonlea”, I didn't like it as much as the first book in the series. I think it was because Anne was older and no longer creating havoc at every opportunity. This book focused on her first two years of teaching so was far more serious. However, I did like young Davy, one of the twins Marilla had taken in. He brought humour to the book with his cheeky personality and insatiable curiosity. In fact, he reminded me of Anne at the same age.My biggest complaint about “Anne of Avonlea” was the abrupt way each chapter came to an end. I found this annoying as it created a sense of discord. However, overall, still a sweet read.

A teenager is a schoolteacher.2/4 (Indifferent).I can see how people like it. It has a particular sort of folksy charm. I'm just not that sort of person that can get invested in things like what color the hall is painted.

Anne of Green Gables returns in this classic. Now she’s a school marm at age 17. Her little batch of students charm and try her by twists and turns. Toss in the recently orphaned twins Davy and Dora Keith, and Anne has her hands full indeed! She has many mishaps and whimsical adventures in this tale.This is a charming little book about Anne. While there’s no central plot to the tale (it reads more like a string of interconnected short stories), the characters really make it work. Anne is so well-meaning even if she makes mistakes and causes property damage. She always apologizes and makes amends (whether through doing repairs or paying for replacements). I especially liked Anne’s idea of the Avonlea Village Improvement Society (AVIS) and the Pye family.Anne wants everyone to love her and she strives to find a way to win the trust, love, and approval of all those around her. However, as a school marm she sometimes finds this impossible when the rascals try her sorely. Then there’s Mr. Harrison and his sailor-mouthed parrot Ginger. Davy would probably give her early grey hairs if he doesn’t learn to behave.Marilla, Anne’s adoptive guardian, is still a significant part of the story. I like her steadying hand and well-placed advice. While I did like Book 1 a little more since is was about Anne fitting into this new life, it’s so good to have Marilla be such a backbone presence in this tale.Occasionally the tale dips a toe into the preaching pond with examples of good morals and what not. It was mild but once or twice I did roll my eyes. There is one short discussion about ‘injun’ feathered headdresses which dates this work.Anne grows up a bit in this book. She’s working full time, has her own chores and adult friends. Then she and Marilla take on Davy and Dora. Marilla’s eyesight is failing so Anne has all the sewing to do for the household. Even though she hates sewing, she’s willing to do it to give these kids a good home, even if just temporarily.There’s busted plates, caterpillars down a shirt, frog in a bed, a cow sold accidentally, a horrendous storm, and plenty more in this tale of Anne’s young adulthood. My favorite was the parrot Ginger. He swears a lot (though we never get to hear it swear) but it provides meaningful companionship for Mr. Harrison.I received a free copy of this book.Narration: Colleen Winton was a great pick for Anne. She has that wonder and gentleness that Anne is well known for. She also does a great Marilla, being a little sour but overall well meaning. She has distinct voices for all the characters and her male character voices are quite well done too. Her little kid voices are great as well as though few for the elderly.

I was completely prepared to adore this book, but I just didn't. I feel like nothing happened, which is probably why hardly any of this made the cut for the Anne of Avonlea movie. I'm still going to finish the series, and I still love Anne, but this was disappointing. Borrow it?