Rainbow Valley
(Anne of Green Gables Series, #7)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Synopsis:
Anne's wonderful, lively children found a special place all their own. Rainbow Valley was the perfect spot to play, to dream and to make the most unusual friends, like the Merediths. They were two girls and two boys who had no mother. What they did have was a minister father who was looking for a wife but so far had found nothing but heartbreak. Between the minister courting a young spinster and the escapades of the restless children, the town was bubbling with scandal. But in the end, the warmth and laughter of Anne of Green Gables taught all an unforgettable lesson of love.
My Review:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ & ❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎
5+ stars & 8/10 hearts. This is such a lovely book. It just makes you so happy. The characters are all so real and loveable (or not!) and humorous and... living. The scenes are so interesting and funny and beautiful and sad... Oh, how those last paragraphs make me sad! There are a couple euphemisms; mentions of ghosts; and I don’t agree with everything. But it’s a wonderful book. Anne of Ingleside starts foreshadowing; then this one reminds poignantly of what’s coming up... and oh, you both dread and want to read Rilla!
A Favourite Quote: “Susan never worried over poor humanity. She did what in her lay for its betterment and serenely left the rest to the Higher Powers.”
A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “The house ... looked .... over the harbour, silvered in the moonlight, to the sand-dunes and the moaning ocean. They walked in through a garden that always seemed to smell of roses, even when no roses were in bloom. There was a sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters on either side of the broad walk, and a lacery of fir trees on the hill's edge beyond the house.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “‘...he went to the Jacob Drews' silver-wedding supper and got into a nice scrape as a result[.] Mrs. Drew asked him to carve the roast goose—for Jacob Drew never did or could carve. Well, Mr. Meredith tackled it, and in the process he knocked it clean off the platter into Mrs. Reese's lap, who was sitting next him. And he just said dreamily. “Mrs. Reese, will you kindly return me that goose?” Mrs. Reese “returned”’it, as meek as Moses, but she must have been furious, for she had on her new silk dress.’”
A Favourite Quote: “Susan never worried over poor humanity. She did what in her lay for its betterment and serenely left the rest to the Higher Powers.”
A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “The house ... looked .... over the harbour, silvered in the moonlight, to the sand-dunes and the moaning ocean. They walked in through a garden that always seemed to smell of roses, even when no roses were in bloom. There was a sisterhood of lilies at the gate and a ribbon of asters on either side of the broad walk, and a lacery of fir trees on the hill's edge beyond the house.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: “‘...he went to the Jacob Drews' silver-wedding supper and got into a nice scrape as a result[.] Mrs. Drew asked him to carve the roast goose—for Jacob Drew never did or could carve. Well, Mr. Meredith tackled it, and in the process he knocked it clean off the platter into Mrs. Reese's lap, who was sitting next him. And he just said dreamily. “Mrs. Reese, will you kindly return me that goose?” Mrs. Reese “returned”’it, as meek as Moses, but she must have been furious, for she had on her new silk dress.’”
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The ebook is free on Feedbooks. I do not recommend getting the first book off there because it's full of typos.
Adds the Anne Series to my 2020 TBR.
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Me too!!!
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