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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 Renee Raudman

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    New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and frivolous new pal Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises...including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly, Anne must decide if she's ready for love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 25, 2008
    ISBN9781400176373
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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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    • 5/5
      Anne of the Island picks up the story with Anne, Gilbert, and Charlie going off to Redmond College. Mrs. Lynde, now a widow, has moved in with Marilla at Green Gables, thus enabling Anne to go off to school. So Anne joins the ranks of the coeds and has her college years enriched by new friendships and academic challenges. The romantic tension picks up in this story, with Gilbert declaring himself and meeting with a firm rebuff. Anne is certain that he doesn't fit her ideal, though she values him greatly as a friend. When a tall, dark, melancholy man does come along, Anne is swept off her feet and only realizes at the last moment how flat life would be with a humorless hero. Anne is a believable character; she makes mistakes in her relationships and suffers the humiliations and jealousies that most people experience at some point in their lives. I have always enjoyed this installment because Anne is an adult, but very much still herself. Her adventures at Redmond are always less important than the characters and their interactions. I get the impression that Redmond and really all the external circumstances of Anne's history are frames for the character sketches and funny episodes at which Montgomery excels. I love the descriptions of Anne's girlfriends in college; Philippa Gordon has to be one of the funniest, most lovable side characters in fiction. Aunt Jamesina isn't bad either, though I've always felt we didn't get to see enough of her. I found it interesting that Montgomery makes an effort in several places to defend humor. At one point she has Anne quote one of their professors, who says that humor is the best condiment for the feast life spreads for us. Montgomery's body of work testifies to this truth and I'm thankful to partake of her contribution to the feast. This is a very satisfying read and another of my favorites in the series. Long live Anne!
    • 5/5
      Anne of the Island picks up the story with Anne, Gilbert, and Charlie going off to Redmond College. Mrs. Lynde, now a widow, has moved in with Marilla at Green Gables, thus enabling Anne to go off to school. So Anne joins the ranks of the coeds and has her college years enriched by new friendships and academic challenges. The romantic tension picks up in this story, with Gilbert declaring himself and meeting with a firm rebuff. Anne is certain that he doesn't fit her ideal, though she values him greatly as a friend. When a tall, dark, melancholy man does come along, Anne is swept off her feet and only realizes at the last moment how flat life would be with a humorless hero. Anne is a believable character; she makes mistakes in her relationships and suffers the humiliations and jealousies that most people experience at some point in their lives. I have always enjoyed this installment because Anne is an adult, but very much still herself. Her adventures at Redmond are always less important than the characters and their interactions. I get the impression that Redmond and really all the external circumstances of Anne's history are frames for the character sketches and funny episodes at which Montgomery excels. I love the descriptions of Anne's girlfriends in college; Philippa Gordon has to be one of the funniest, most lovable side characters in fiction. Aunt Jamesina isn't bad either, though I've always felt we didn't get to see enough of her. I found it interesting that Montgomery makes an effort in several places to defend humor. At one point she has Anne quote one of their professors, who says that humor is the best condiment for the feast life spreads for us. Montgomery's body of work testifies to this truth and I'm thankful to partake of her contribution to the feast. This is a very satisfying read and another of my favorites in the series. Long live Anne!
    • 3/5
      Most of this book seems filled with what are clearly meant for insightful, witty character sketches, both humorous and poignant. It is less of a novel than a series of vignettes. Or so it seems at present. And I suppose the character sketches are insightful - they've just become a little predictable and a little author-omnipotent-ish for me. I don't know why this should suddenly feel the case; it's very annoying. But I've never been keen on a narration style that knows more than its characters about "the human condition". I also find Anne's ability to be close to unfeeling about cats quite unsettling. So much imagination when it comes to people, and so much pragmatism for animals!However, there are a couple of really lovely moments, including the one in which she realises that her own blindness has led to Roy Gardner's pain. It is her own fault that things work out badly and she is not at all a perfect person. Her ongoing blindness about Gilbert is painfully maddening, but at least that's over now. Finally. When I read the next book I won't have that tension spreading onwards unnaturally like an episode of the X Files.And now to see what my shelf offers up next by way of a Sunday read!
    • 5/5
      Anne has finished teaching and is headed to Redmond College. At the beginning of her adventure, she feels like a provincial, backwards girl, but quickly renews old friendships, gains new ones, and settles in to college life. As she and her three closest girl friends grow weary of boarding, they decide to rent a place together. In a typical twist of fate for Anne, the perfect house becomes available and the girls set up housekeeping at Patty's Place, a quaint cottage among the well-to-do mansions of Kingsport. Anne is desperately wishing that things with Gilbert could be as they always are, but he has other designs. And a new man has entered the picture, someone who nearly matches all Anne's dreams of what a proper beau should be like. Every time I read this story, I want to live in Patty's Place, so full of charm and fun. Of course, amidst this fun and charm are some very real dilemmas for Anne, including proposals, and dealing with her feelings about life and men. Not only do I want to live in Patty's Place, I wish I could have enjoyed similar college experiences, both the bitter and the sweet!
    • 4/5
      Anne of the Island is one of my favorites of the series. It's in this book that Anne heads off to Redmond college -- discovering herself and finding a way to balance her romantic notions with the real world around her. Anne and her circle of friends truly grow up in this novel -- finding their future careers and husbands. Anne retains the spunk of the earlier novels but has mellowed a bit with age, so she remains an interesting heroine.
    • 5/5
      This is probably my favourite Anne book, although it's difficult to say as they're all good :) I love reading about her life at Patty's Place, and I'm a hopeless romantic so the end is all good :) Also, I think the Roy-issue is very well written and a very atypical inclusion in this type of book.
    • 5/5
      This book sees Anne leave PE Island for not-so-distant Kingsport to attend college.Though she is accompanied to her new college by the likes of childhood friend/sweetheart Gilbert Blythe and the prissy Priscilla "Prissy" Grant she finds the new environment strange. But Anne is nothing if not up for a challenge and she finds that as her life grows and her experiences expand that Gilbert isn't the only boy interested in her, and that life doesn't have to be as sleep as PE Island.
    • 1/5
      When I first joined GoodReads, I went through and marked a lot of childhood favorites with the number of stars I remembered them earning from me. I reflexively marked all the Anne books with lots of stars. I've long had a soft spot for Anne, and I know I read this series several times as a kid. Had you asked me last month, I would have professed to loving the entire series. Then I embarked on a project to revisit them, and oh how sorry I am that I did. The first book was a delight. The second, not so much. And now this one.

      It is with a heavy heart that I confess to loathing this book this time through. I can't stand the verbal quirks Montgomery assigns, especially to Davy "I want to know" and Mrs. Rachel "That's what". I hate the simplistic and treacly Christianity. The scene where Anne tells the dying Ruby what Heaven is like honestly made me queasy. The prose is positively purple throughout.

      I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hate this book. A lot.
    • 4/5
      Two drawbacks (as with the other books): whole paragraphs devoted to describing the scenery using unreadable, too-flowery language; and absolutely no details about many, many things (e.g., four years of college go by in this book!). One big upside: what a sweet last chapter, when Anne finally realizes how dumb she was to turn down Gilbert the first time and then he asks again. It's what we waited through three books for!
    • 5/5
      Call me, Gilbert Blythe!
    • 5/5
      Anne of the Island is one of my favorite stories in the series. Anne always seemed to be at just the right age, with just the the right amount of romance left in her. Part of the appeal may be the resolution of the romance that any reader would have inferred as "meant to be" from early on in Anne of Green Gables. The whole series is a joy and this one ranks among m favorites.
    • 4/5
      This part of Anne's story follows her from just before entering college until just after her graduation. This third installment follows the tenor of the whole series. The narrative focuses quite a bit on description, both of the natural surroundings and of Anne's feelings, and it tells the stories of those whole lives touch Anne's. In general, it is a gentle tale, with some few trials and tribulations, and some sad parts, but overall life for Anne is very determined and grand, even if just through her determination and perspective.
    • 4/5
      So we spend the whole book wondering when Anne is going to finally get her act together and realize she's in love with Gilbert. She almost doesn't of all things! Meanwhile, she's having a wonderful time at college and learning as much about life as anything else. She's beginning to try her hand at writing for real, even though it makes her feel dirty to sell her work.
    • 5/5
      This was a reread of a book I last read as a young teen. I had remembered it, along with Anne of Windy Poplars, as a fairly boring read in the midst of a good series. Part of it was probably my age, as this book is all about Anne's time in Redmond with college friends, studying for her B.A. and declining several proposals for marriage. The story was a faster read than I remembered, though it still has its flaws, in my opinion, particularly in the tendency to introduce random characters and only keep them around for only a chapter or two. Plus some of the dialog at the end just struck me as a little bit cheesy (but I was tired and possibly more critical as a result). But it is still an old favorite, and I'll probably revisit it again someday.
    • 4/5
      Usually I like this one pretty well but it just fell really flat for me this time. Maybe because the older I get, the more distance I feel from the lighthearted college life depicted in this book. I've "grown up" with Anne Shirley -- when I discovered her books I was the same age as Anne when she arrived at Green Gables, and I've read them over and over through the years, getting older (necessarily) as I went, passing up Anne as a teenager and then Anne as a college student and then Anne as a working woman and then Anne as a young wife and new mother, until now I'm more in a Rainbow Valley sort of stage. And that's kind of depressing -- because Rainbow Valley is where Anne pretty much completely disappears.Oh, wait a minute. This was a review for Anne of the Island, wasn't it. Sigh. Um, OK. Less Philippa next time please, Maud.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      I like this book better than some of the other Anne books because it takes on more of an ensemble character, and because it appears to be more autobiographical, parallelling events in Montgomery's own life. She gets some mileage out of contrasting the social spaces of Avonlea, where some people can't conceive of Anne going to college and others come around to change their opinion of women being educated, and Redmond, where in spite of the intellectual focus, Anne is able to continue to find her "kindred spirits." Taking Anne more extendedly away from Avonlea also permits her to grow up more and to change her perspective on things, something anyone who has been through college can relate to. The unexpected death of a character also provides a very poignant philosophical episode that resonates with truth. The book is still a bit overly concerned with romantic ideals and flights of fancy, but Anne is starting to grow out of that a little more, and this book feels just that much stronger for it.
    • 5/5
      This book makes me frustrated with Anne - she lets her imagination run away with herself and makes a muddle of her life. Things I like about this book - the delightful picture of Patty's Place - I wish I had lived somewhere like this when I was going to college! The way in which Anne finally has her eyes opened and the way the resolution of Anne's romantic life somehow resolves Marilla's too in a sort of karmic way. The comedic moments that still find their way into Anne's life, despite the fact that she is more adult than child now.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      Anne of the Island is book 3 in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. It is a continuation of the story of Anne Shirley as she goes away to school at Redmond College in Kingsport. Some of Anne's old chums from Avonlea are also at Redmond - Charlie Sloane and Gilbert Blythe, but Montgomery also introduces new and interesting characters. L.M. Montgomery certainly has a way with characters! She writes people that are really believable. These are people you will wish were in your life - as you follow them on their journey, they become your friends as well.Anne of the Island is the book that finally sees some serious development in the Gilbert/Anne dynamic, and for this reason it seems to be the favorite of the series for a lot of Montgomery fans. While I enjoyed the story just as much as the previous two books, I wouldn't say it would be my favorite - my heart will always belong to the little orphan girl from Anne of Green Gables. She becomes a remarkable young woman over the course of the years, but some of my favorite Anne-escapades take place in the first book.As always, L.M. Montgomery is a master of the literary form. Her descriptions are well-formed and breathtaking in their scope - not a single word could be omitted:"The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and The Lake of Shining Waters was blue-blue-blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams."Isn't that fantastic!? Drink in the beauty...These are wonderful books for all ages and there is a little something for everyone here: adventure, romance, drama, suspense, and comedy. If you give Anne a chance, you'll have a bosom friend for life!
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite book of the Anne of Green Gables series (well, one of two favorites). The story held in the pages of Anne of the Island is one filled with the growing pains of youth, the losing of dreams, replaced by the gaining of new dreams, the making of new friends, saying goodbye to old and life continuing it's everlasting journey of passing us by.Although the times were different, much of what L.M. Montgomery wrote of Anne's experience at college is still the same today. It's a time for discovering yourself, of getting to know who you are. And for Anne, who's mind is "constantly changing" so she's having to "reacquaint herself" with it (one of my favorite quotes in the book), college is everything I remember it being for me as well.I think one of the reasons I love Anne so much is because she has such a perfect, wonderful appreciation for home. Sure, she sees it through rose-tinted glasses, but I don't think that's a bad thing. I think we all long to have that place in our minds, that home filled with memories and the ghosts of our youth. Remembering mine helps to steady me when things get rough, but also has such a bittersweet taste to it - and that's what Anne of the Island captures so well.Ruby Gillis, Gilbert Blythe, Patty's Place, Diana (Barry) Wright, the births of new characters, the deaths of some old favorites, all happen in this story and it's very much a turning point. The ending of something special and the beginning of something new and exciting.
    • 4/5
      Anne of Avonlea was one of my childhood favorites. The series follows Anne on her many escapades, through funny and memorable adventures alike. Anne has every stubborn and quirky quality found in any girl...and her love of life is contagious. When I think of these books I am transported to a field of green and a warm summer wind.
    • 5/5
      Finally, Anne meets with a dash of Romance. This book follows Anne's college years at Redmond, we are introduced to some wonderful new characters and Patty's Place. LMM's descriptions and prose is quite delightful. I felt this book was a nice escape into a lovely world where all have good intentions and life is a little more gentle.
    • 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
      It took me quite a long time to read this book, even though it's reasonably short. I think that's because I wasn't enjoying it as much as I thought I would. I really loved the first two books in the series, but this one sort of fell flat for me.It is beautifully written, but I was getting bored of all the descriptions and stuff when the story was going nowhere. I also found a couple of the characters really annoying (Especially Phil, ugh).
    • 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.
    • 3/5
      This is a good love story. We get to see Anne grow up and finally be honest with herself.
    • 4/5
      I never read the Anne books before, and I'm loving them! I'm listening on Audible and love the narration.
    • 3/5
      The third book of the Anne Shirley series sees Anne off to college on Nova Scotia, studying, making new friends, and setting up a new home. Letters and visits to home emphasize Anne's growth and change as she spends time away from her beloved home. There's also continuing intrigue regarding her relationship with Gilbert Blythe. Enjoyable, but lacking the magic of the first book.