What happened to Anne?? You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms. Oh, that's right. She got married. I miss the adventuring Young Anne - with haunted woods and dryad's bubble. I wish we still had the College-gal Anne - with her little cottage of friends. I would even prefer the Schoolmistress Anne - battling the Pringles and educating young minds.Anne was strong, independent, with dreams and ambitions o...

Sadly, my enjoyment of Montgomery's Anne series diminishes as the series goes along. While even those books set outside of Avonlea still manage to contain wonderful characters who add such lovely color to the stories, especially the Redmond group and the clan at Windy Poplars, once Anne is married and sets up house the appeal goes right out the window for me. One must agree with Gilbert's statement in House of Dreams, that many people would indeed think that Anne, a Redmond B.A. and a published

Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables #5), L.M. Montgomery Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1917 by McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart. The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. The books follow the course of Anne's life. It is set principally on Canada's Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's birthplace and home for much of her life. تاریخ نخستین خو...

I enjoyed this, though not as much as precious books! I still love Anne and Gilbert and I really love all the new characters and Four Winds! Just so lovely.

I originally read the entire Anne series when I was 11. In fact, the Anne books were among the first ones I bought with my money, money I had earned doing odd chores or watching my younger brothers for an hour or two.I recently went to an event at the Margaret Mitchell House featuring romance authors, and one of the questions was "What's your favorite literary kiss?" I started thinking about my own answer, and decided it might be the very end of "Anne of the Island" - FINALLY Anne realized she a...

A beautiful tale of the beginnings of marriage and family life for Anne and Gilbert. The added characters were lovable and balanced. Leslie's story was fascinating the way it played out, and Captain Jim was such a warm creation that I wished he were real. I am happily moving on to the next book, and to discover the next chapter in their lives.

The thing about the Anne of Green Gables series is that for the first three books, the best thing about them is Anne.And then for the rest of the books, it is not. It is either a very small aspect of the book, or it is an absence, because the book is entirely without a best thing.This is probably the last installment that has a best thing at all, and that best thing is the House of Dreams.This book includes the beginning and the end of that as a setting, so even the singular pro has its cons.In

"Anne was always romantic, you know," said Marilla apologetically."Well, married life will most likely cure her of that," Mrs. Lynde responded comfortingly.Woo-hoo! This is the moment we've been waiting for - the wedding of Anne and Gilbert.After a simple ceremony at Green Gables, the two lovebirds head to a small house in Four Winds Harbour. (As this book was first published in 1917, there are, of course, no details of the wedding night. That's rather a pity, as I would love to hear Anne's comm...

I hate to admit that the first half bored me to tears but the second half gave me so many feelings!

This was much different from the previous books in the series. The book starts off with a trip down memory lane and preparations for Gilbert and Anne's wedding. Fourteen years after Anne arrived at Green Gables, she now marries Gilbert and together they move into their house of dreams!While the story starts off lighthearted and optimistic, it then takes on a more serious and darker tone. That took me by surprise; it wasn't the case in Books 1-4. Regardless, new characters are introduced and the

Anne and Gilbert are finally reunited and move to Four Winds in their House of Dreams (I wonder how many times that phrase is used in this book teehee). Montgomery has once again created a new cast of characters in Captain Jim, Ms Cornelia Bryant (sounds just like a man!) and beautiful Leslie Moore. I enjoyed this jaunt into the newlywed's life on another part of the island. I enjoyed getting to know Leslie's dark past and appreciated the darker undertones in this novel and the strong female pro...

5+ stars & 9/10 hearts. All the Anne books are beautiful, but this one is particularly lovely and touching. The plot is lovely. The scenery is simply magnificent. Captain Jim…. ah, Captain Jim. He is wonderful. How can you love him so much when he only figures in this one book? What a good, wise, admirable man. <33 Anne is happier and more poetic than ever, and I love her & Gilbert’s relationship. Miss Cornelia adds so much humour to this book... so does Susan… (and Captain Jim)… And I love Lesl...

Book 5 In the Anne of Green Gables series and I'm now half way through. I didn't enjoy book 4 so much but this was a good come back. Anne is starting married life and there's some really cute characters coming into play. This book is such a sign of the times it was written in as anything to do with Anne, Gilbert or pregnancy is not mentioned at all, babies just appear without any reference. A sure sign of the conservative era, however the author does mention in this book that the liberals had wo...

These books have a special place in my heart now <3 I can definitely see these being ones that I will reread over and over again as I get older! :D Like I've said before, the characters are just what makes these books so great to me! We got to meet some new ones in this one...Captain Jim, Miss Cornelia, and Leslie Moore are a few :) I was surprised by how much development Leslie's character went through in the story and I just enjoyed seeing her grow. I loved getting to see Anne and Gilbert as h...

ANNE AND GILBERT SITTING IN A TREE. K-I-S-S—OH WAIT THERE'S BARELY ANY KISSING IN THIS ONE EITHER. Yes, if you read between the lines (and "decode" the stork metaphor), then you know that there's a lot more than kissing happening in their "house of dreams", but the on-page count is in the single digits. Saddest trombone noises.1. I am very frustrated by my reaction to this book on this reread. It's for multiple reasons, but the gist of it is that it didn't tell the story I remembered it telling,...

While of course L.M. Montgomery's Anne's House of Dreams describes Anne and Gilbert's life as newlyweds, the novel should also and equally be considered not only as the most sentimental but also in my opinion as the most obviously and deliberately poetic and philosophical of the Anne of Green Gables stories. It celebrates home and passion, the all important bonds of deep affection (not to mention glorifying the caressing and enchanting magic and lyrical pull of the sea, of the ocean), sometimes

2.5 starsReally didn't like the setting, every page seemed to have some long, detailed description of Anne's House or the area surrounding it and it was plain boring. I did enjoy some of the new characters though, Cornelia, Owen, and Captain Jim were all great. The parts that were most interesting though were the ones which mentioned Green Gables or had old characters from Green Gables pop up. Anne/Gilbert's relationship was rather weird, after four books of waiting for them to properly get toge...

This was another lovely installment from the Anne of Green Gables series. Although, this one is not my favourite of the five that I've read so far, it is still worthy of a read. I thought this one read more like a diary, and the plot was lacking in parts. There were a couple of abrupt time jumps, which didn't help the flow of the story, and also, I thought the general theme felt a tad samey. Personally, I prefer the young, care-free Anne, instead of the housewife Anne, in the kitchen cooking din...

I've always been and always will be one of Anne's biggest fans! Her poetic love for the world and her vivid imagination has always capture me in ways unexplainable. Even so, I've never read this particular book, for reasons beyond me.This is most definitely my favourite! It makes you smile, it makes you cry and it makes you feel.To think I've missed out on it before is almost heartbreaking. But never the less, it's part of me now and I will forever cherish it and hold it O so close to my heart.L...

"I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfillment,"House of Dreams picks up right where the series left of at Windy Poplars. Beginning chapters will make one feel both happy and a bit sad, for there are joyous celebrations along with a farewell, though not emphasized thoroughly, will break the hears of some of the readers. At least, I was happy to have found it in a beginning of a book, where the journey will quickly make up for it.The autho...