I'm so sad I didn't like this as much as I did when I was younger. I just don't connect to Anne's children as much as I connect to Anne. The book was still amusing, as L.M. Montgomery is great at telling stories of children getting into scrapes. I feel like she tried to recreate the magic of Anne growing up, but it seems more rushed, especially since she's focusing on 6 children instead of 1. Walter is still my favorite, and I think it's because he is the most like Anne. I'm hoping I like the next two books a little more. ( )

Not the best of her books. This was actually mostly about her children and very little about her. ( )

4.25 ( )

There's never a dull moment in the life of wonderful, whimsical Anne. The adoring mother of five lively children--with a baby on the way!--Anne's life is full to bursting. And that's before the overbearing Aunt Mary Maria arrives for a lengthy visit...

Still, there's nowhere Annie would rather be than her own beloved Ingleside in the adoring arms of her husband, Gilbert. Life with her imaginative, adventurous children seems close to perfect until Anne begins to worry that her very busy doctor doesn't love her anymore. She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable Anne of Green Gables--and she's ready to make her darling husband fall in love with her all over again!

This one was just not my favorite. Each chapter switched to focus on a different character and I felt like I couldn't truly like any of them since there was so little time with each.
Also, it seems like Gilbert just dropped off the face of the earth. Montgomery found a way to write him out of nearly every single scene.

3 Stars

Content: good for all ages ( )