Oh how I wish this was written in our time because this would be so, so gay. Emily and Ilse belong together and we all know Nancy and Caroline are a thing. What a heckin shame. Also, CATS.That's it. That's the review.

Emily of New Moon is right up there with Anne of Green Gables. Emily Byrd Starr is another timeless and unforgettable character from the mind of L.M. Montgomery.She's more serious and complex than Anne but just as stubborn and just as lovable. Written for teens and young adults, but anyone can enjoy this wonderful classic.

In many ways, this book ressembles "Anne of Green Gables" a lot. It speaks of a young girl who admires the world's beauty while growing up amongst family and friends. However, "Emily of New Moon" touched me a lot more. There was something about Emily and her personality that appealed to me a lot. The same goes for her struggles which, in my opinion, were really cruel and harsh and made me care for her even more. I also really liked the fact that Emily actually grows up in this book and goes out

Even more so than L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, her Emily of New Moon trilogy novels (Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest) have always been absolutely and utterly personal favourites, and mostly so because while I have definitely and certainly enjoyed reading about Anne Shirley, her bubbly extrovertedness is not and can never be even remotely as close to me and to my own rather internal and quiet personality as equally imaginative and dreamy as Anne Shirley but als...

Emily of New Moon has a much darker quality than the Anne of Green Gables series – and Emily as a character is not nearly as likable or sweet as Anne. But she seems real. Although LMM tends to stylize/idealize her heroines a little, you can sense the three-dimensional quality of Emily's personality from the first chapter. Anne is 3D too, of course, but Anne's character tends to emerge little by little, whereas Emily dominates her story right from the start. And there's plenty of attention to

My heart overflows with love for this book. I completely understand the love and admiration so many people have for the characters and author of this series!I read “Jane of Lantern Hill” back in April and May of this year. I really enjoyed it and became determined to read more by Mrs. Montgomery. It was a little ridiculous how long it took me to choose between all the book options available. (Color me impressed that she wrote so many novels throughout her life.) Being in a reading funk didn’t he...

When I was little, my mom passed on to me and my sister all of her glorious, hard-back books from her childhood. Louisa May Alcott, Gay Melody (look it up), and, her favorites, The Anne books. She told us how her father, the quiet newspaper editor, took her to the library and insisted she had to read about Anne Shirley. Something about the book jacket made Mom sneer, but her dad insisted, so she read it. As we all know had to happen, Mom fell in love. And when her daughters were old enough, she

[Also read: ~2006/07]After Emily Byrd Starr is orphaned, her Aunts Elizabeth and Laura take her to live with them at New Moon—and soon Emily finds herself quite at home at the proud farmstead. She founds the local underaged artist's guild, writes and writes and writes, and grows into her legacy.1. For a book allegedly for children, this review is going to have a lot of swearing in it [trigger warning for fucking goddamned child predators]:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DEAN PRIEST IS A FUCKING PEDOPHILE A...

With this review, we're revisiting another one of my old favourite, my comfort reads, the books I can still pick up and read with a great deal of pleasure, almost as much as when I was curled up in my bed as a girl, discovering this world for the first time. Which is all to say that this review is naturally heavily coloured by all of who I was and who I am now, and how this book has fit into my personal mythology for many, many years.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the ch...

It seems that L.M. Montgomery is either a hit or a miss with me. With this book, Emily of New Moon, it was definitely a miss. I did enjoy the beginning of the story, especially the loving relationship Emily had with her father. Once Emily moved in with her Aunts Elizabeth, Laura and cousin Jimmy, each chapter of the book became slightly redundant for me. I did enjoy the storyline with the friends that she made, Ilse, Teddy and Perry but it wasn’t enough for this readers overall enjoyment.I went

It took a while for this book to grow on me. I’ve always loved Anne of Green Gables, and I know that for some readers the Emily books are even better. I think that might depend on which heroine you meet first because, while I grew to appreciate Emily Byrd Starr, she’ll never usurp Anne Shirley in my heart. “To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!”Somehow Emily’s story manages to be both easier and less idyllic than that of Anne. Emily gets to experience the com...

2021 reread:The Anne books are a warm gold. The Emily ones are a deep, rich purple. And I will never settle which I like better, just as I cannot choose between the the sun and moon.*****It's interesting, because I think I'd be a little afraid to meet Emily because of the scrutiny with which she approaches people-although I do that myself!I love her spunk, though. When she hid under the table to listen to the family conclave and was retorting furiously to them in her mind, I immediately thought,...

Emily of New Moon (Emily of New Moon #1), L.M. MontgomeryEmily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up in Canada. It was first published in 1923. The Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Montgomery considered Emily to be a character much closer to her own personality than Anne, and some of the events which occur in the Em...

4/4.5 stars* 🌟🌟🌟🌟There is something quite magical about the way L. M. Montgomery weaved words together! She captured innocence, whimsy, imagination, ambitious, family, love, and friendship in a very singular way!I loved following Emily's story, and I'm very excited to continue on with reading the next two books in this trilogy! I will say, I do prefer Anne of Green Gables. Anne holds a very near and dear place in my heart, which I don't think will ever change! With that being said, I thoroughly

At first, I actually liked this more than the Anne books. Like Anne, Emily observes and sees beauty in everything around her; however, she is even more of a writer than Anne. She tries to articulate all of the lovely things she sees, and then Montgomery shares this poetry with us. It is a treasure trove of nature writing. Having said that though, I ended up not liking the plot so much. Maybe it's that the characters are less striking and likeable, but I started to find it a little tiresome three...

This was a sweet tale about Emily, a young orphaned girl, who lives with her relatives in New Moon and long the way finds family, friendships, and home. I liked this book well enough. It had its moments, but I couldn't help comparing it to Anne of Green Gables, one of my favorite books. There were many similarities between the two books: orphaned girl with spunk, stern Aunt, clumsy mishaps, writing and poetry, the works. That said, this book did surprise me at times (Dean Priest!) and it certain...

"It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside - but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse - and heard a note of unearthly music." *relates*

Re-reading for our discussion on Friday, May 27th! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Anne fans, I INSIST that you try Emily at some point.[image error]-----------------------------------I love the Emily books so much. Her passion and her dreams, along with her dignity, were expressed in a way that really appealed to me when I read them as an impressionable teenager. The formative years of every girl's life are filled with wild hopes and worries and exhilaration, and as an adult, I re-read

Before Maud's Betsy-Tacy series had its Emily, bless our souls, Lucy Maud had hers. And I say "bless our souls" in the most literal sense, because time spent with either Emily can feed an inner flame reduced to the faintest flicker by heartbreak, doubt and despair. But please--Emily Byrd Starr is no shrinking violet. Here we have a fierce, free-spirited young iconoclast who, even more than Anne with an "e", has a thing or two to teach any adult with enough sense (and imagination) to listen.

Emily. My dearest Emily; my childhood friend and childhood idol, my inspiration and my consolation. There are books so special, read in such a tender age, that they become part of you. I wouldn't be the person that I am today if it wasn't for Emily Byrd Starr.“It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside-- but sometimes, just for a