Search - Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, Bk 4)

This book focuses on Anne's time at a house she is boarding at called Windy Poplars with a few widows while she teaches at a school for three years while Gilbert Blythe is in medical school. It is cut into three years' time and is a combination of her letters to her darling fiance' Gilbert and her actual adventures in dealing with the people there (mainly the Pringles). It is filled with various love stories and events that Anne has a hand in, because she can't resist trying to do right for people. It was a really fun book! If you ever watched the TV mini-series, Anne of Avonlea was mainly based off of this book (but it is hardly like it at the same time). Definitely fun!

Anne had taken her first job away from Green Gables and soon discovered that her real work lay in dealing head-on with the proud Pringle family. But she quickly became the whole town's champion and confidante, and would have appeared amost meddlesome-if she weren't as spirited and loveable as ever.!

If you're a fan of Anne, you will certainly love this. This is one of my favorite series, one that I can never put down. Anne will always make you smile, laugh, or cry over something. It's a must-have for anyone with imagination and a love for books!

Honestly, I did not care for this book in the series. I found out it was written many years after the 7 other books in the series. For some reason, the author went back and decided to fill in a gap in the series -- and I feel you can tell that the author has been away from these characters for a long time. I didn't get the same feeling from this book as I did from the other books in the Anne of Green Gables series. There is barely any dialogue between Anne and her family & friends back at Green Gables. Whenever she goes back to visit, it focuses more on her new friends from Windy Poplars who come and visit. There is absolutely no dialgue between Anne ans Gilbert. She does write him letters, but there are none from him. And whenever they are in Green Gables together, he acts as a driver or stops by -- but no interaction at all!! What a let down for the reader since they just become engaged at the end of the last book!!

This book does nothing to develop or enhance the Green Gables series. I have read the next book, (Anne of House of Dreams #5), and it is wonderful. I would suggest that you skip book #4 altogether and go right to book #5 after you read Anne of the Island.

Very entertaining and highly amusing.