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Jul 05, 2014emmalhrx rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A welcome (personal) change from the soap-opera-trainwreck of Anne of the Island, Anne Shirley is then comfortably set up in a house on Spook's Lane, Windy Poplars. There she navigates many a turmoil and fracas, and comforts many the distraught personage: which would have the tendency to turn it saccharine if there wasn't a good deal of ditzy airheads, grouchy curmudgeons, and cantankerous, chattery elders. It is recorded in epistolary format, crossed with third-person. Anne's letters to Gilbert provide a loving testament to her effusive character, and her adorable prose--and that of Maud (there's something about her that makes one want to refer to her by a comfy name)--lights up the book. It is truly magical. If one would wish to become nitpicky, it is saccharine and formulaic in the middle, and strange in reference to Lewis and Anne's peregrination--prior characters are almost totally omitted (tragically) but in all, it is a lovely, beautifully written, classic.