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Annes House of Dreams

Annes House of Dreams

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Book, Review by Marie
Review: Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends,they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life togther and their own dream house on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbour. A new life means new problems to solve new surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and neighbors;Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant,with his sad stories of the sea;Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light. Find out more by reading this wonderful book Anne's House of Dream's!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My All Time Favorite!
Review: Being a devoted Anne fans, I will no doubt say that I love and treasure all the Anne Books just as I treasure my family and friends. But among them....this book is certainly my *love*. Not only can we really see the bloom of Anne and Gilbert's love, we can really learn a lot from Anne in this book, ie..the way how she treats her friends. Anne is the kind of person whom everyone would love to be friend with, see how Captain Jim, Miss Cornelia and Leslie love her. She is the kind person who won't mind how other talks about her, and is always ready to console and help her friends...see how she still loves Leslie after Leslie had told her about her jealousy over Anne and Gilbert.

Anne Shirley really belongs to the race of Joseph and if I were to be born a hundred years ago, I am sure I would love to be accquainted with Anne too. What an honor it would be to become one of Anne's kindred spirits!

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: Blue Unicorn Editions
Review: Blue Unicorn Editions publishes the most complete, unabridged, uncensored texts of the world's greatest literary works, in English and/or their original languages.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful fairy tale
Review: First of all, I must confess I'm not a huge Anne fan. I don't read this book so much for Anne and Gilbert as for Leslie and Owen. Their story is so romantic, so dramatic, fairy tale like, and sort of sappy. It's not the sort of book you are always in the mood for, but when you are it definitely 'hits the spot' as they say.
Picture a beautiful, love starved, miserable girl suffering silently on a gorgeous harbor in a gloomy house. Watch as she is transformed and comes to live happily ever after. Definitely all- girl and definitely fun.
The way Lucy Maud Montgomery describes the scenery, the ocean and all at Anne's new home is beautiful. Leslie's story is beautiful. If you want something sweet, fanciful while not fantasy, and just. . . lovely read this book.
Only thing I don't like is Captain Jim. He is boring and sort of drives me crazy, but he is in the book a ton. I often just skim the parts he's in.
Miss Cornelia is another new character, and she is sometimes annoying but on the whole is amusing.
I guess that's it. I also like all the Biblical references in the conversations. A lot of them are somewhat obscure, so they're probably some I'm not even picking up on, but they're good.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Anne's House Of Dreams
Review: I am a big fan of the Anne series, but I felt that this book seemed different from the other ones. It was as if the characters weren't as painstakingly real as they seemed in the rest of the series. I would still reccommend this book if you are a fan of LM Montgomery, but not if you are just slightly interested in the books. There are new characters introduced, and the book chronicals the first few years of newly-weds, Anne and Gilbert Blythe. Their first house, first child, and first tragedy are all in this book, and I would say, Read it, but don't buy it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a good book
Review: I am so happy that in this book anne finnally married gilbert. she helps leslie, and has her first child,jem,but anne could of followed her dreams more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A five star read!
Review: I have all of the Anne of Green Gable series and continue to read them over again, delighting in each new discovery that I missed when reading it before.

Anne's House of Dreams starts when Gilbert Blythe, who has loved Anne ever since they were children, becomes the doctor he has set his ambitions for. Anne had discovered that she was in love with Gilbert and so they are happily married and off to Four Winds Harbor where they start their new life, together.

Finding beauty and adventure wherever Anne turns she is forever making friends and finding new discoveries. Miss Cornelia becomes a friend as does the forever-interesting Captain Jim.

A mysterious young woman capitivates Anne's curious attention however and she finds that the young woman's name is Leslie. She cannot forget the beautiful but sad creature who seems to be hiding something. Enters Owen Ford and by chance mystery starts to be slowly revealed ...

This book was (and still is!) a fantasic read and I recommend it to anyone! As well as any other "Anne" books!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Montgomery's cop-out
Review: I love Anne but I've always felt that L M Montgomery's depiction of her degenerated in the later books. Anne was happy having children but I don't believe that meant Anne had to sacrifice all her dreams and talent to the altar of Gil and children (not to mention Susan). I hated how Anne would constantly put herself down. It is almost as though L.M. Montgomery was saying that girls could not have it all. It's awful how Anne would say things like "I had wonderful dreams when I was younger, but I'll never make Who's Who", or how she never even made an attempt at writing Captain Jim's life-story, saying something like "I know what I can do, I can only write fairy stories.....", which implies that it was beyond her. Anne topped the batch in English at Redmond and her talents in her youth were prodigious. It is cop-out for Montgomery to have condemned Anne to life as a doctor's wife in a provincial town. Her creative potential was never fulfilled.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Anne's House Of Dreams
Review: I love the Anne of Green Gables Series. I loved all the books. I am also an avid fan of Anne and Gilbert and I was horribly disapponted that this book didn't have much romance in it. First of all, Anne's Wedding, I mean, she was so excited about the prospect of her future wedding in the first book I was sure there would be this big huge description about it, but alas, much to my dismay, there wasn't. I also thought there would be lots of stuff about her and Gilbert, and sure, it surpassed all the other books, but it just wasn't enough to satisfy my unpleasable needs.
My personal favorite part was when Anne lost her baby. I know that sounds horrible, but it really was. Lucy Maud Montgomery did such a good job of scripting it out. But my favorite part was when Anne was asking Gilbert why he wasn't happier and if something was wrong with the baby and it said that he took a long while turning around, then looked into her eyes. That right there almost got me sobbing, but then again, as a hopeless romantic, almost anything does.
I liked it, I always tell people to read the series. I read Anne Of Green Gables, the first novel in third grade and didn't really get into it enough to read the rest of the series. Then our teacher gave it to us as required reading in the sixth grade and so of course I resented it. Then, eight years later, I thought, "Gee, it's a Friday night and I'm bored." So I went to the bookcase and saw the series that had been sitting there patiently since I got the boxed set for Christmas at age nine. I thought of just reading the second one but decided to give the first one final chance. And I was completly [into the book], I finished it in three days and had completed the whole series in less then a month. I reccomend them to anyone who has a bit of imagination.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It was alright but not LMM's best...
Review: I really like Lucy Maud Montgomery and her books but I have to admit this is not one of her best books. I loved the middle books about Anne is college and it is kind of hard to see her grow up and deal with grown up issues. I am used to her being the little girl who uses large vocabulary and is awkward. I am used to her being a girl in college living at "Patty's Place". But I'm not used to her having children. I thought this was sort of a depressing book. Maybe LMM was going through a tough time in her live when she wrote this. Usually her books are so cheerful and lively with such vivid characters. But Mrs. Cornelia Bryant (even though I loved her character) got a bit offensive and annoying. Leslie Moore seemed a bit melo-dramitic. I really did like Captain Jim though. I give this book 4 stars because I would never think of giving LMM less than that but I thought this book was very bitter-sweet.


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