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4:04am January 19, 2014

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allinablur:

Guys, while I finish Anne of Avonlea and await the arrival of Anne of the Island to read, I want to ask you AoGG fans something. Is it worth it going beyond the first three books of the series and read the other books?

YES. I personally loved the fourth and fifth books. The…

I found the last book in the series very illuminating, considering it is, I believe, the only (or first?) surviving book by a Canadian woman who lived through World War I, about Canadian women in World War I, and I get the feeling it’s fairly realistic.  It deals with things you wouldn’t even believe, given the rest of the series, and given what the rest of the series was like, it gave me the best glimpse I’ve ever gotten of how that war completely overturned everything people knew.  (Anne’s vivid imagination becomes… quite a liability, when her sons go to fight, and that’s all I’m saying. Also makes actual mention of lice. I respect the author for putting that fictional family through what really happened.  And it gave me a lot of insight into ways of life I never understood before that.)  

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  1. iamicecreamsbitch reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  2. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from alliecat-person and added:
    I found the last book in the series very illuminating, considering it is, I believe, the only (or first?) surviving book...
  3. alliecat-person reblogged this from allinablur and added:
    YES. I personally loved the fourth and fifth books. The last two aren’t really about Anne so much, but more her kids....
  4. scribblinaway reblogged this from allinablur and added:
    Book #6 (Anne of Ingleside) actually includes a lot of pieces of short stories she wrote for magazines and other places,...
  5. allinablur reblogged this from thelorelaisquared and added:
    More opinions! I can discard the borrowing from a library opinion because I’m almost 100% sure that they don’t have...
  6. thelorelaisquared reblogged this from yesknopemaybe and added:
    Personally I think it’s worth reading all 8 at least once. Even the ones I like less have moments that are good. For...
  7. yesknopemaybe reblogged this from leslielikesthings and added:
    I love House of Dreams just as much as the first three, though it is a little different in tone. It’s a beautiful book...
  8. soliquius reblogged this from leslielikesthings and added:
    Even if you stop reading after the third Anne book you still have to read Rilla, it’s a beautiful, though sad, book. I...
  9. leslielikesthings reblogged this from allinablur and added:
    I actually really like book 4 even though it’s very different in style. The only one that I dislike is book 6, Anne of...
  10. improvementbyextensivereading answered: I enjoyed all of them, but did find (as a child and now) that book 4 was kind of boring. The rest has a lot about Anne’s family.
  11. spaceloveandrobots said: I personally enjoyed all of them, I think you might too
  12. ironyisourforte said: I really love all of the books - The story is great - it just changes as she gets older. - The last two books are from the point of view of her children. It took me two times reading them before I could accept it - but after that, they’re just as magical. So - I love all…
  13. toomanycornersinmymind said: I must say that I enjoyed all of the books, but i’m a sucker for Anne of Green Gables so I guess i’m a bit biased
  14. singersdd answered: Yes, I think so. Anne has some great adventures in ALL the books, even Rilla of Ingleside, which is about her youngest daughter.
  15. lulabo reblogged this from allinablur and added:
    Honestly, it depends on what you’re into in the novels. (In any case, I would not recommend Windy Poplars (#4) or...
  16. thiswasntin-thescript said: Yes!!
  17. dmdumouchel said: All the books in the Anne series are great, except for Anne of Ingleside. That book didn’t come from L. M. Montgomery’s creative impulse, her publisher pressured her into writing it. I would read all of the books except for that one.
  18. forgingerpeople said: Sorry for the third reply haha, but I just remember that the first two chapters or so of Book 5 are wonderful and any Anne fan would want to read that little bit
  19. forgingerpeople said: So basically, if you feel like it, I’d say skip 4 and 5, maybe read 6 to get a sense of where Anne’s at in her life, skip 7 then read 8. But that’s just my opinion. This series is my favorite and Books 4, 5, 6, and 7 just don’t do much for me.
  20. forgingerpeople answered: As a longtime Anne fan, the first and third books are my faves. 4 and 5 are not the greatest, but I actually really love Book 8.