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Anne's House of Dreams
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Start date
December 19, 2024
Finish date
December 31, 2024
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Buddies: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why we're reading this
Leeanne, Kerri, & Carolyn enjoy reading Maud Montgomery together.

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"Anne's House Of Dreams" (1917)
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Leeanne  G
“My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I’ll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy.”

This is a book that endeavors to be one of joy despite the sorrows that attack this little house of dreams. I think that, in the end, it accomplishes that. This is a
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C.  (Comment, never msg).
Revering every title with “Anne” in it, or thinking none worthy but a series’ famous volume, are not feedback I will trust. I loved the previous, fourth story. The first half of this story was going the same way, absolutely lovely!

A dramatic drop and needless, extreme events horrified me into hating this novel. I settled on a second star, ONLY to offset the disadvantage of not closing on the joy, beauty, and warmth of the beginning. I think my grade would be as low but for this novel, warning me
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Sue
first read in 1998
April 2016: I must have been in a cynical mood when I read this the first time because I was charmed by it and all the fun characters Gilbert and Anne meet at the little house. Captain Jim was delightful and his "life book" got written and it was all so charmingly Anne. I loved it.
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Karigan
Sep 20, 2023 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*
Dec 25, 2017 marked it as tbr-general-fiction  ·  review of another edition
Kerri
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Review soon!