Anne of Ingleside

Title: Anne of InglesideAuthor: L.M. MontgomeryRead by: Barbara BarnesPublisher: Dreamscape AudioLength: Approximately 11 hours and 40 minutesSource: Purchased from Amazon.com.Anne of Ingleside is the sixth novel of the Anne of Green Gables series. Two years ago, I started to listen to the audiobooks of this series as I have always loved these novels. For some reason, I stopped at book five, but with the craziness of the world these days, I went back to this series that always makes me happy and decided now is the time to finish listening to the audiobooks.In Anne of Ingleside, the story is still about Anne and Gilbert, but the focus has started to shift to their six children: Jem, Nan, Diana, Walter, Shirley, and the newest arrival, Rilla. As I’ve gotten older, reading the books is a different experience than when I was younger. This book always fell through the cracks for me as a teen as I was looking more for the romance and action of the other novels. Now as a mother myself, I enjoyed and understood many parts of the story that I didn’t as a teen. I also loved the individual experiences of the kids as well. I feel like L.M. Montgomery remembered what is was like to be a child and how something that seems small for an adult, can be everything to a child.At the start of the novel, Gilbert’s Aunt Mary Maria has come to stay for two weeks, but the two weeks soon stretches into a year. Gilbert doesn’t want to kick out a relative, but Aunt Mary Maria Blythe has something negative to say about just about everything. With Anne having Rilla during Mary Maria’s stay, it adds an extra stress onto all of the family members. I thought these sections were hilarious. Especially now as an adult I’m had Aunt Mary Maria’s of my own in my family that visit and have nothing nice to say. I just can’t imagine an entire year of it. The birthday party that put an end to her visit was hilarious. I felt for Anne who is just trying to be nice, but there is no pleasing the Mary Maria’s of the world.I loved the scenes where people were telling stories. In particular Walter listens in to all of the stories about the inhabitants in town. I was Walter as a youth and loved to sit around and listen to the stories my Grandparents and Great-Grandparents had to tell. This reminded me of them.The kids learned many important lessons and had adventures during this novel and I greatly enjoyed them. I felt bad for Jem who had bad luck with dogs and for Diana who had bad luck in friends. Anne and Gilbert’s marriage matures and they face their own insecurities. I thought it was a very honest look at marriage at their fifteenth anniversary being at seventeen years myself. I also enjoyed that characters from the previous novels visited or were mentioned.Anne of Ingleside was written after the final two books in the series: Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside. I admit that the end where Anne laments about how the children are growing too fast and the book had a foreshadowing of Walter’s fate really struck me. It brought a tear to my eye.Barbara Barnes was a good narrator and brought unique voices to the characters. This was a very enjoyable audiobook.Overall, Anne of Ingleside is a good book that continues Anne’s story while starting to tell the story of her children. The book made me really happy. It’s a great story to listen to when times are troubled.

This edition isn't easy to find and I'm very glad to have such a nice copy!

After Anne’s House of Dreams I thought I had found my favorite of the Anne books but this one—which I was honestly skeptical going into—quickly became my favorite so far (though Anne’s House of Dreams is very close)I loved seeing Anne and Gilbert later in their marriage and the way their relationship has deepened and grown! Their cute banter, the way they tease each other, the ups and downs.And seeing them as parents was too sweet! Each moment where Anne sat with her children and listened and worked them through their problems melted my heart.The book was filled so many quotes about children and motherhood that were touching.And the end! A certain paragraph definitely got me, but over all the last chapter was a beautiful look on life and marriage and motherhood.Favorite quote: “Not altogether…but I am writing living epistles now,” said Anne, thinking of Jem and Co. (Is there a more beautiful to describe raising children? 🥰)

I have nothing but good for the narrator and the audio of it. I only took away one star for the story line itself.This book goes into great detail on each of her children's antics, usually emotionally disturbed by some crazy friend (or enemy) that has led them astray. Of course, everything turns out ok in the end, after all, this IS an Anne story. But I found the storyline a bit tiresome after a while.In the original first books, there are not as many characters, but you get the feeling of settling in. In this book, seems I was always a bit discombobulated.As usual, you will get the droning on about the fairies and imaginations that at least one of her children has inherited, not to mention the dribbling gossip from all the women in Ingleside. (in detail)Still glad I got it. But I think, I may be finished with reading the Anne series now. I had skipped this book when I read them once before.

"Anne of Ingleside" is the sixth book in Lucy Maud Montgomery's superb "Anne of Green Gables" series. Anne and Gilbert have been married nine years and live in the large house they call Ingleside. Gilbert has a thriving medical practice in Glen St. Mary; he and Anne have five young children, with a sixth on the way. They have also the unique maid of all work Susan Baker.The story centers around a lively series of domestic crises, large and small, delivered with humor and gentle wisdom. Some are typical childhood events, such as the death of a treasured pet or the consequences of a lie. Some affect everyone, such as the prolonged stay of Gilbert's ill-tempered Aunt Mary Maria, whose pessimistic posturing threatens to unhinge the whole family. Some are quite frightening, such as Anne's near-fatal bout with pneumonia.Near book's end, Anne suffers a crisis of confidence in her marriage. Her fears are triggered by Gilbert's air of preoccupation and a visit by an embittered Christine Stuart, whom Anne once saw as a rival for Gilbert's affections. Anne's imagination will lead her down a dark path to an empty marriage sustained for the sake of her children, before a fateful conversation with her husband."Anne of Ingleside" and "Anne of Windy Poplars" were written years after the original six "Anne" novels, to fill in gaps in her story. Montgomery cleverly uses "Ingleside" to update the reader on characters previously introduced in "Windy Poplars", including Rebecca Dew, Jen Pringle, and the now grown Elizabeth Grayson, as well as to drop one or two hints of the future."Anne of Ingleside" is rich in the details of a maturing marriage. It is also an introduction to the little Blythe's, each healthy, imaginative, and unique, of whom we will see more in "Rainbow Valley." It is highly recommended as a very good read to "Anne" fans of all ages.

veio bem embalado, material de ótima qualidade da editora

I don't know how I missed ever reading this one... it's glorious in its little tales of Anne and her children who all have different parts of her deep inside of them... we could all do with being a little more Anne-ish

This book is for winter reading I have never read so here winter reading Sherry Bishop

This book is the account of Anne, Gilbert, and family after they had moved to Ingleside but when the children were still quite young. Bertha Marilla (Rilla) is born during this book. It is full of incident and poetic imagery in L. M. Montgomery's own style, and on the whole it is a happy book. There are some unhappy experiences, but good comes out of them. We read about young Jem wanting to go to the town to see someone being tattooed! Later on we see his love for dogs - and what comes of it. We read about poetic Walter, spending time with a family who tease him - and how he gets up in the night and walks home! Later on we read about the Ladies Aiders realising, with horror, that Walter has been listening to their conversation! We see Di, making friends with the wrong sort of girls - the girl with false tales of grandeur; the girl who fantasises about being ill-treated and who ends up telling lies about Di (and we see Di's scornful reaction!); We read about Nan's vivid imagination and its consequences - her idea that God wants her to walk round a graveyard at night, and, later, her fantasies about The Lady with the Mysterious Eyes. Then there is the time she thinks she was exchanged for another baby at birth! We read about how Rilla feels about carrying a cake! Then we read about Anne wondering if Gilbert still loves her and how that turns out. Throughout the book we see the children making up names of places and weaving imaginary stories around them, just as Anne did when she was young. And there is much, much, more! This is a great book, full of the fruits of L. M. Montgomery's great imagination.

LM Montgomery did not write the Anne books in order. Anne of Ingleside was written in 1939, after all of the other books, and while it does have its own charm, it also has to me the feeling of something hastily thrown together to please the author's fans.The book opens with a few very lovely chapters showing Anne enjoying a week-long visit in Avonlea. These chapters have a bit of the flavour of the previous books, especially the part where Diana and Anne go on a picnic to one of their favourite places of yesteryear, Hester Gray's garden. But then Anne returns to the town of Glen St. Mary and her home, which they have named Ingleside. From that point on the book follows the family life of Ingleside over the course of the next 6 years. Sadly, we see no more of the Avonlea folk whatsoever. In fact we see very little of Anne or Gilbert either.The bulk of the book follows the various scrapes and adventures of Anne's children as they grow up. Disappointingly, Anne's children seem to interact more with the housekeeper, Susan, than they do with their mother herself (Anne seems to be often away on social engagements). There is no cohesive plot whatsoever here--the book reads more like a collection of short stories, and it's sometimes difficult to discern where we are in the timeline, as season blends into season.The back of the book talks about Anne wondering if Gilbert still loves her--this is not a central theme of the book at all, but rather the idea in the last few chapters when I suppose LM Montgomery decided she needed to return to Anne to wrap up the book, since the book began with her. Anne only feels dejected for one day, their anniversary, since it seems that Gilbert has forgotten it--but at the end of the day she finds she was wrong and then everything is right in Anne's world. She does nothing whatsoever to "make her husband fall in love with her all over again" as it states on the back of the book.One thing that irked me, is that in the end of the book they meet up with Christine Stuart, and talk about how Gilbert used to be her beau. But in Anne of the Island, Gilbert clearly states that there was never anything between he and Christine, people just assumed he was her beau...I suppose since so much time passed between the writing of those books the author forgot about what she had previously written. Forgiveable, but still annoying to a reader going through the books all at once.Anyhow, although I did not feel this book was very well organized or well written, some of the stories within it were very cute, and I did like the parts that included Anne as well. I gave it three stars, although I'd like to give it 3.5 if I could, because I did enjoy some parts of it quite a bit (the image of six-year old Rilla throwing the cake into the brook is particularly memorable).Overall, I would recommend this book only to die-hard Anne fans. If you are a more casual reader, I would recommend the first three Anne books, followed by Anne's House of Dreams (which actually does have a storyline) and then Rilla of Ingleside, which follows Anne's youngest daughter during the days of World War 1.