I think you hit the nail right on the head, there. And Gilbert turns out such a disappointment. All through the first two books you're wanting Anne to treat him better and then when it happens, it's dull. How he put up with all those soppy letters she wrote him and her 'poetic' goings-on when they are together, is quite beyond me. Any normal man would say, 'Shut up, Anne, and give us a kiss.' But what normal man would call his wife 'Anne girl' and get away with it?
It's ages since I read an Anne book, but I picked up House of Dreams last week whilst I was away, and read it - I remembered it being sad in parts, but I'd forgotten just how much of a tear-jerker it is, I was in tears about five times. I think that's the last one that works for Anne as a character, I never liked Anne of Ingleside, although I can't remember much about it now. Rainbow Valley wasn't a favourite either, but I loved Rilla when I was younger, I had my mum's old copy and cried over it regularly - they are very weepy books, come to think of it
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Nothing in LMM has ever made me cry except for The Dog: you know what I mean.
I have all the Flower Patch books and all but one of Klickmann's self-help books. I admire her enormously: her hard work, her nervous breakdowns, her common sense, her still writing in her eighties. I love all the detail in the books about the house and garden and as for her hats!
The first two Miss Silver books I read disappointed me after they'd been so highly praised by people who usually like the same books I do. I think I prefer ones written in the 1940s and I enjoyed both this month's. I'd never realised there were so many of them; picked up another half dozen at the local book fair on Saturday.
Whereas I wail my way through them, although I think that HoD is the worst - the wedding at the beginning, with memories of Matthew, the baby's death, Captain Jim crossing the bar, assorted other bits, all set me off. Oh, and leaving the house at the end, that gets me too. Call me sentimental.
I know nothing about FK beyond the fact that she edited the GOP for a long time, but she sounds fascinating.
I went off the Anne books some years back. Anne just became so boring. I much prefer the Emily trilogy, "The Blue Castle", "Jane of Lantern Hill", and "A Tangled Web".
I've read and own all those except A Tangled Web. I like the Emily trilogy, too, although I find parts of it creepy. I also like the two Pat books. Have you read those?
I loved Emily as a child, but when I tried to reread them a couple of years ago, I couldn't get into them at all - I struggled through the first one, and managed a couple of chapters of the next before I gave up. Which was a shame.
The Blue Castle, on the other hand, would be one of my desert island books, and Jane would have a good chance too.
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I think you hit the nail right on the head, there. And Gilbert turns out such a disappointment. All through the first two books you're wanting Anne to treat him better and then when it happens, it's dull. How he put up with all those soppy letters she wrote him and her 'poetic' goings-on when they are together, is quite beyond me. Any normal man would say, 'Shut up, Anne, and give us a kiss.' But what normal man would call his wife 'Anne girl' and get away with it?
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I have all the Flower Patch books and all but one of Klickmann's self-help books. I admire her enormously: her hard work, her nervous breakdowns, her common sense, her still writing in her eighties. I love all the detail in the books about the house and garden and as for her hats!
The first two Miss Silver books I read disappointed me after they'd been so highly praised by people who usually like the same books I do. I think I prefer ones written in the 1940s and I enjoyed both this month's. I'd never realised there were so many of them; picked up another half dozen at the local book fair on Saturday.
Just about to mail you, BTW.
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I know nothing about FK beyond the fact that she edited the GOP for a long time, but she sounds fascinating.
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~x~
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Too sexy? I'm afraid I'm in love with Arfur, not Lysander.
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(I fished up "A Tangled Web" off one of the Project Gutenberg sites, btw.)
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The Blue Castle, on the other hand, would be one of my desert island books, and Jane would have a good chance too.
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