![]() ![]() When the first book ended, Anne was maturing and recognizing (with humour) her tendency towards indulging in overly dramatic flights of fancy. Published in 1909, only a year after Anne’s debut, Montgomery seems to have lost her sense of humour – and her sense of characterization. How could I leave Anne after just one book? So I read on, quickly progressing through first Anne of Avonlea and then Anne of the Island.Īnne of Avonlea is an odd book or perhaps it is just a very typical second book, written in a rush to capitalise on the extraordinary success of Anne of Green Gables. Or at least I can’t, particularly when it is this series which so dominated my childhood reading. After reading Anne of Green Gables in July, I was reminded of an eternal truth about books in a series: you can never read just one. ![]()
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