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    Anne of the Island
    Anne of the Island
    Anne of the Island
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    Anne of the Island

    Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Narrated by Colleen Winton

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    In Anne of the Island, Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream (which she gave up in Anne of Green Gables) of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane enroll as well, as does Anne’s friend from Queen’s Academy, Priscilla Grant. During her first week of school, Anne befriends Philippa Gordon, a beautiful girl whose frivolous ways charm her. Philippa (Phil for short) also happens to be from Anne’s birthplace of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781927817124
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    Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874 and raised by her maternal grandparents following her mother's death when she was just two years old. Biographical accounts of her upbringing suggest a strict and rather lonely childhood. She later spent a number of years working as a teacher before turning to journalism and then, ultimately to fiction writing. While Anne of Green Gables was completed in 1905 Montgomery was at first unable to find a publisher for it and - having set it aside for a while - eventually found a champion for it in the Page Company of Boston. Her first novel - and the one which was to prove by far her most successful - was published in 1908 and has remained in print the world over ever since. In creating the uniquely memorable Anne, Montgomery gave the world of classic fiction one of its most enduring heroines.

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    • 4/5
      All the usual adjectives apply -- charming, sweet, touching, etc, etc. And oh, how my heart stopped at some moments. And the end is just lovely.
    • 3/5
      This is a good love story. We get to see Anne grow up and finally be honest with herself.
    • 3/5
      I like this one in the series as well. Although, I will say, I kinda like the Kevin Sullivan version better...
    • 4/5
      These series of Anne continue to be such good books, I can't believe it took me so long to read them. The story continues as Anne goes through four years of college, builds new friendships, and romantic interests.
    • 5/5
      I love that Anne has characteristics that make her real. She makes foolish mistakes in this book and she kinda kicks herself and I’m so glad. Because we all do dumb thing sometimes and it’s embarrassing but it makes her feel so real
    • 4/5
      Another lovely story. I enjoy Anne more as she gets older and more mature. Her adventures away at college help her appreciate her island home even more.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed reading about Anne's further studies.
    • 5/5
      Once again, L.M. Montgomery continues to delight us with the further adventures of Anne Shirley. In this installment, she's growing up. She's on her way to pursue a college degree. Naturally, she is homesick for Avonlea. (I am, too.) However, there is college life and a whole bevy of new friends to look forward to.I continue to be in raptures over Montgomery's writing style. It suits me to a "T". One of the things I disliked about this book (and I adjusted my ranking by half a star) was the animal killing. Anne and her group try to euthanize a cat. Luckily they fail. However, one of Anne's Avonlea neighbors succeeds in hanging his dog because it is no longer wanted. These passages made me both angry and sad.My character favorites continue to be Mrs. Rachel Lynde and Davy Keith. I smile every time they are mentioned. We are "kindred spirits".
    • 3/5
      Another pleasant, funny and endearing tale with the fantastic Ann Shirley.
    • 3/5
      This book picks up right where the last one left off with Anne going off to college and chronicles her years there. There, she meets chums new and old, and several of them decide to rent a house together instead of living a boarding rooms existence. And, all of the girls Anne grew up with, including Anne herself, meet their beaus -- false and true.With this re-read of the Anne of Green Gables series, this one strikes me as the weakest so far. That is not to say it's bad, but it does show a lot more issues of being a product of its time (think, rigid gender roles and flippant remarks about other races). It tries to be a mix of keeping to the old Avonlea folks while also introducing new people in Anne's life, with this being more successful at some times than others. All in all though, it remains a cozy read that just follows life -- there are times of happiness, times of sadness, and times of confusion when the path isn't clear. The audiobook reader for this one was decent -- not spectacular but not bad either.
    • 3/5
      This isnt really the kind of book I would normally be into, but I love all the characters already so I keep on reading.

      One thing I did find a bit disturbing is the casual (though probably historically acurate) animal cruelty. Anne and her housemates attempt to euthanize a cat and there are several mentions of killing animals for fun or convinience. Im not naive to the fact this happens but did not expect to find it here.
    • 4/5
      I got a little annoyed with Anne and her head in the clouds. She rejects Gilbert because he doesn't fulfill her fantasy. Than she meets a man who is everything she dreamed of - good looking, rich, a poet, who always says and does the right thing. Yet she ends up rejecting him, realizing there is no spark. She needed to go through that to grow to appreciate Gilbert.
    • 5/5
      At the heart of this exquisite episode into Anne's life is a love story, but it's not merely of romance. Anne falls in love with college and the pursuit of intellect, and that's what makes it one of my favorite books in the series. She finds her college friends, and they form an intimate circle. She starts to write, though this gets downplayed as the book continues--which is odd, since this is one of her dearest wishes. And, yes, she learns what it means to be in love, not just in the fairy stories, but for real.

      Let's get spoilery, though. Proceed only if you want to be spoiled.



      In the past, I've given Anne a hard time about refusing Gilbert the first time, but rereading it since I've been married has given me a little perspective. I have the feeling that if Gilbert had been alive 100 years later, that proposal would not have taken place, because the pressure to marry would have been less existent and he would have seen how very friend-driven Anne was. I think he fell into the trap of social conditioning. Anne, as it was, was not ready to marry *anyone* at that time in her life, and I don't think she would have been happy had she accepted Gilbert then. She had to realize of her own accord that she was in love with him, and to his credit, he backed off once she said no and only tried again when given a friend's encouragement that Anne would possibly be more receptive.

      I also think that Royal Gardner exists to show that a *physical* ideal is not the same as your *actual* ideal, because good grief, that man sounded hideously boring. I believe, too, that Anne needed a relationship with a flat and uninteresting character to contrast Gilbert's vibrant and supportive personality. Had she married Roy, she would have been thrust into the role of society wife, for which she was entirely unsuited and unprepared. And that's an alternate-universe fanfic I would be kind of interested in reading, now that you mention it.
    • 3/5
      A country girl goes to college.2.5/4 (Okay).It's pretty good when it focuses on the plot. It rarely does, though. And there's a new character, Phil, that I like enough that I'm almost tempted to keep reading the series. Almost. Being somewhat bored for three books is enough Montgomery for me, at least for a long while.
    • 4/5
      The third book in the "Anne of Green Gables" series sees Anne leave Avonlea and start life at Richmond College where new friends are made and more challenges faced. I loved the introduction of Philippa Gordon, who ends up sharing a house with Anne. She was so much fun with her quirky, loveable nature and incapability to make any firm decision.I have always been a big fan of Anne and Gilbert, although this time I could have screamed in frustration at Anne's inability to see how much Gilbert loved her until right at the end. However, thankfully, she came to her senses before it was too late.As for Ruby, I had forgotten what happened to her, and Montgomery wrote of her passing with such beauty and gentleness, it brought tears to my eyes. Now it's onto the next book.
    • 5/5
      This is probably my favorite of the series because it's got the most romance. :) Sometimes I will skip Anne of Avonlea and just go straight from the first one to this one.
    • 5/5
      Each Anne book is just so amazing. I love how Ms. Montgomery tailors the writing a little more grown up as Anne gets more grown up. Fun characters, witty dialogue and a fun storyline.
    • 4/5
      Note: While this is Book 3 in the series it works just fine as a stand alone.Anne Shirley is growing up and now in her late teens, she has the opportunity to go to college. Set in 1915, Redmond College in Nova Scotia, Canada is the nearest and best choice for her. Her dear friend Priscilla Grant also enrolls. Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane, childhood friends, are returning for their second year of education. While there, Anne meets Philippa (Phil) Gordon who she becomes good friends with despite Phil’s honest vanity.I missed these classics when I was kid but I have enjoyed the trilogy as an adult. Book 1 is still my favorite as I feel Anne has the most imagination and the silliest accidents in that book. Now that she’s an adult, she still has much to learn but she doesn’t have as much imagination nor does she have so many simple mistakes and accidents. No, her blunders are fewer but also are more serious, especially in matters of the heart.Much of this book had to do with romance. Sigh. It seems that all the young people go off to college to find a spouse and if they happen to get a degree along the way, so much the better for it. While the ladies have some depth to them in this tale, the men are pretty much just stick figures. Even poor Gilbert Blythe has little to do with the tale. We learn so little about him that I as the reader could project any traits I like onto him to make him the perfect match for Anne. So I would have liked less romance and more details about the characters.With that said, the ladies have their hands full learning how to manage their lives away from home. Anne discovers that she does have a soft spot for cats after all. While Phil usually lacks a filter between brain and mouth, I did find her honesty about everything, including her own faults, to be amusing. One of the ladies gets a Math degree which I thought was great considering the date this was set in and published. (Though we rarely see any of the ladies doing anything related to their studies, since they spend so much time gossiping about the men).The most touching scene for me was when Anne returned to her birthplace. Phil happens to be from there and she invites Anne to come visit during one of their breaks from college. Anne has long wondered about her parents. Going to Bolingbroke held a lot of importance for Anne.After much drama about Anne’s love life, the story wraps up rather quickly. Things are tied up neatly and with a happy ending.I received a free copy of this book. Narration: Colleen Winton once again makes a great Anne. I like how she manages to make Anne sound a little older with each book while also managing to make her be distinctly Anne. Her male voices were also spot on as well as her elderly voices. Anne has a range of serious emotions in this book and Winton did great in capturing them with all their nuances.
    • 4/5
      Anne leaves her home and teaching job in Avonlea to pursue the college degree and scholarship she gave up to take care of Marilla.
    • 5/5
      Anne's tale continues with her 4 years at a university in Nova Scotia, with summers and holidays on PEI. A few of her chums from PEI are also at school with her, plus she meets new friends, bids goodbye to a childhood classmate who dies of consumption, almost gets engaged, rejects Gilbert's (and two other) proposals, and in the end is back in Avonlea, a graduate, and finally realizes that she's in love with Gilbert.
    • 4/5
      Here we are again! Book 3 of the Anne Shirley series.....Each book gets better. L.M. is giving Anne such maturity in this installment. Anne leaves home for college, finds new friends, connects with old ones, and falls in love.Another one that I didn't want to put down. I read it through in 2 sittings.
    • 4/5
      Audio book performed by Susan O’Malley

      In book three of the series, Anne Shirley goes away to Redmond College, along with Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane. She rooms with her old friend Prissy Grant, and a new friend Philippa Gordon. College life has some surprises in store for Anne, including more than one marriage proposal and a possible new career as a writer.

      I never read these books as a child, but I am certainly enjoying them now. Anne is a marvelously engaging character – intelligent, naïve one minute, sensible the next, caring, loyal, and enthusiastic. If memory serves (it’s been over 40 years, after all), the interactions of the college roommates seems spot on perfect for students of that age. Oh, the excitement of young love – and the indecision! There are still scenes that take place on the island, of course, as Anne returns home for holidays, but the focus of the book is her college experiences as she grows into a young woman.

      Susan O’Malley does a fine job performing the audio book. She has good skill with various voices, easily differentiating the characters.
    • 5/5
      Like a breeze of fresh air, going back to the world of Avonlea and the characters of Anne, Gilbert, Diana, and their friends and family gives me the most refreshing feeling. And in this one we get to see Anne and Gilbert's relationship change, though not without some major bumps in the road. Anne's life as a college student at Redmond with her friends old and new becomes a time for her to learn many lessons about life. A most satisfying read that I would recommend to anyone!
    • 4/5
      I never read the Anne books before, and I'm loving them! I'm listening on Audible and love the narration.
    • 5/5
      [Re-read 2013]

      Still one of my favorites of the Anne series. I especially love Anne's growth here, learning to understand her own romantic notions. And oh how I wish I could spend a week (or a year) living with the chums in Patty's Place.
    • 3/5
      Would that I had been about 16 when I read this.
      This is Anne of Green Gables growing up, finding her place in the world, establishing great girlfriends, finding herself in the midst of studies, coming to terms with the meaning of death and life, understanding that friends can grow up and away, and of course, discovering love.

      Oh, would that I had been 16 when I turned the pages of these books! This is meant for someone who is soul-searching, who is a young adult wondering if college is all that people say it is, who is hoping to find love. Not just love, but love.

      I would have given it 4 stars if the romance was a little more realistic with more depth. Why were they so compatible? It's not really explained. You hardly see them talking - mostly Anne just going on one of her poetic spiels (lovely as they are, they do not showcase romantic love). And goodness, Roy is just too annoyingly perfect to even like his presence in the book. He's too much of a plot device and not enough of a character.

      I really, really enjoyed Phil because she was silly and vapid-sounding, but she wasn't. Not at all. And I love that characters (and people, ultimately) are not all that they seem on the surface. It is depth and layers and it is beautiful.

      I do have some quibbles with book - I am sometimes annoyed at the many monologues that Anne gets. What person who tolerate someone stream-of-conscience-ing them for so long as if who she was talking to didn't matter? Or how sometimes the book sounds very rude. For example, when Montgomery always makes the reference that Charlie was a Sloane, and everyone knows what Sloane's are like. Maybe it's because it's such an old book and a small town and that's what it's like, but for me (suburb, city girl in the 21st century), it completely rude and unfair.

      But ultimately, there is a reason Anne is a classic. Beautiful.

      3.5 stars. Oh, how I wish I were 16.

      -note-
      I realized I skipped book 2, and apparently that's where the romance builds between Anne and Gilbert, so there's that.
    • 5/5
      Read my full review here.

      It’s no surprise that I love this book since all of Anne’s stories so far have been charming and funny and magical. There’s nothing like it, and the series will always hold a special place in my heart.

      In Anne of Avonlea we get to see Anne mature, and in this book she matures even more. Sure, she’s still imaginative and fanciful and often-times immature, but those instances became fewer as Anne became refined. Obtaining a B.A. was a dream of her’s and I think her four years at college have helped push her into adulthood. She’s worked hard, lived away from home, and visited the place she was born.

      Something so great about this book is that while Gilbert isn’t a huge presence physically, he does tend to be on Anne’s mind. The two are obviously very close, but Anne is terrified of growing up and everything changing - something that is quite relatable to everyone - so she’s blind to her true feelings. I do think she knew deep down she’s in love with him, but she was scared and so was like in denial.

      But because of this again we see Anne grow over the course of the novel, and the moment when they finally get together is very sweet. I can’t wait to read the next book so I can see them happy together.

      I would be remiss if I didn’t say, again, that Montgomery is so good at describing things. And she certainly knows how to create a huge cast of unique and interesting characters. She’s such a talent and her writing is a joy to read.

      Overall, Anne of the Island is a wonderful book.
    • 5/5
      Bitter must be mixed with sweet as life goes on, and goes on changing, but in going on for Anne, "with the blowing of the west wind old dreams returned," making it all worth it. A number of points made me sigh, as well as laugh; I literally laughed aloud during Anne's First Proposal. Goodness, Montgomery was a genius.
    • 3/5
      Some laugh out loud moments, some moments were it seemed a little to happy-go-lucky. Over all, fairly successful for a third book in a series.

      I think what knocked that fourth star off for me was the chick flick ending sort of thing. I knew it was coming, but it just didn't end the story in a very creative way. Other then that this book was rather timely for me, as I am just completing my senior year of university. Going to a conservative Christian University I could still relate to it pretty well, especially the idea of all your friends getting married off and having babies and such. I think the first book will always be my favorite though.
    • 4/5
      By this, the third book of the series, Anne is a young woman and after working for a couple of years as a teacher, she has saved enough money to go to University in Nova Scotia. Some of her friends are also enrolling at Redmond, and she makes new friends as well. By the second year, tired of boarding houses, there are four girls who decided to rent their own house and together with the elderly Aunt Jimsie, as a chaperone, they set up house for the remaining three years. Friday nights are designated as the evening for receiving gentlemen callers and these attractive girls have plenty of those. Gilbert Blythe is a regular and it is very obvious to everyone that he has deep feelings for Anne. Anne who is very fond of her childhood chum, dreads having to hurt him, As Anne leaves girlhood behind and matures into a young woman, there is little trace of the orphan girl that was. Anne has become serene, sensible and very steady in purpose. In one area however, she seems to lag behind her friends and as she attends one wedding after another, she appears to not be able to see the love that is right in front of her, instead she is still holding out for that elusive Prince Charming that she imagined as a young girl. It takes a dark time and an almost tragedy for Anne to be able to understand where her heart is leading her.I am loving my re-reading of this series, and have come to love Anne as much now as I did when a girl.