{"id":336371,"date":"2025-12-09T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/122-anne-of-windy-poplars\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:53:46","slug":"122-anne-of-windy-poplars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=336371","title":{"rendered":"122. Anne of Windy Poplars"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Anne of Windy Poplars. L.M. Montgomery. 1936. 288 pages. [Source: Bought]<\/p>\n

First sentence:\u00a0 DEAREST:
\nIsn’t that an address! Did you ever hear anything so
\ndelicious? Windy Poplars is the name of my new home and I love
\nit. I also love Spook’s Lane, which has no legal existence. It
\nshould be Trent Street but it is never called Trent Street except
\non the rare occasions when it is mentioned in the Weekly
\nCourier . . . and then people look at each other and say,
\n‘Where on earth is that?’ Spook’s Lane it is . . . although for
\nwhat reason I cannot tell you. I have already asked Rebecca Dew
\nabout it, but all she can say is that it has always been Spook’s
\nLane and there was some old yarn years ago of its being haunted.
\nBut she has never seen anything worse-looking than herself
\nin it.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Premise\/plot: Anne and Gilbert are engaged at last! But Gilbert still
\nhas three years of school to go, and, so Anne finds herself a job as
\nprincipal of a school in Summerside. Anne of Windy Poplars gives us an
\nintimate look at those three years. Much of the book provides glimpses
\ninto the letters Anne writes Gilbert. But there are some traditional
\nchapters as well. <\/p>\n

My thoughts: Anne of Windy Poplars is such a delightful (late) addition
\nto the Anne series by L.M. Montgomery. I love, love, love it. Even if
\nGilbert himself is absent. (We only see her letters to him, never his
\nletters to her.)<\/p>\n

This book showcases what Montgomery does BEST: bring her characters to
\nlife. It doesn’t seem to matter if we spend two paragraphs with a
\ncharacter or two chapters. I CARE about every character she introduces.<\/p>\n

Some of the characters we meet in this one: Aunt Kate, Aunt Chatty,
\nRebecca Dew, Dusty Miller (cats count as characters, right?!), Little
\nElizabeth, Nora Nelson, Jim Wilcox, Esme Taylor, Dr. Lennox Carter,
\nCyrus Taylor, Teddy Armstrong, Lewis Allen, Katherine Brooke, Mrs.
\nAdoniram Gibson and Pauline, Cousin Ernestine Bugle, Jarvis Morrow,
\nDovie Westcott, Frank Westcott.
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Favorite quotes:<\/p>\n

\nI have a scratchy pen and I can’t write love-letters with a scratchy
\npen…or a sharp pen…or a stub pen. So you’ll only get that kind of
\nletter from me when I have exactly the right kind of pen.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYou know I’ve always been one to whom adventures come unsought. I just seem to attract them, as it were. \u00a0 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSchool begins tomorrow. I shall have to teach geometry! Surely that can’t be any worse than learning it.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIsn’t it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel
\npetty and ashamed…ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty
\nmornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nNobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI said drenched and I mean drenched. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOh, no, babies are never common,” said Anne, bringing a bowl of water for Mrs. Gibson’s roses. “Every one is a miracle.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIt seems so strange to read over the stories of those old wars…things
\nthat can never happen again. I don’t suppose any of us will ever have
\nmore than an academic interest in ‘battles long ago.’ It’s impossible to
\n think of Canada ever being at war again. I am so thankful that phase of
\n history is over.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nobody is ever too old to wear just what she wants to wear. You wouldn’t want to wear it if you were too old. <\/p>\n

\u00a9 2025 Becky Laney of Becky’s Book Reviews<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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