Name: The Blythes are Quoted
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Contains 15 short stories set in and around the Blythes' Prince Edward Island community of Glen St. Mary.

The Blythes are Quoted

With an Afterword by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly L.M. Montgomery won the world over with the young, tenacious Anne and her adventures. Now, in the last book she completed shortly before her death in 1942, we remember the beloved author and her enduring literary legacy. Edited and introduced by Benjamin Lefebvre, this final book consists of Montgomery's final sequel to her internationally bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In an unusual twist to her writing style, Montgomery employs a mix of stories, poems, and vignettes, not telling one particular narrative but instead presenting snapshots of new and familiar residents of Glen St. Mary, of Anne and her family, and of their discussions around the poems composed by Anne and later by her son Walter. In these final glimpses of characters known the world over, Montgomery offers readers a parting gift, a final farewell from herself, and from Anne.

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

The Blythes Are Quoted

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3 stars? 

Of all of the author's books I've read (10 so far) this is the darkest. The first story is especially unsettling... for some reason it didn't bother me when I read it (I was about 11/12) but whenever I remember it now I'm quite creeped out. 

Besides that I don't remember much... just some stories about the Blythe's neighbors and liking/finding a few of them intriguing. In all candidness I think I prefer Maud's prose to her poetry :)


CWs, or things that caught my attention: mentions and/or descriptions of blood, murder, killing animals, and probably more I've forgotten. 

6/18/24

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Christine

2016 christine apparently thought it was a Wise Idea to "annotate" (major sarcasm there) her entire copy of this book 

2019 christine at 1am: okay wait time to reread a l l o f t h i s and subsequently be really sad over walter aGAIN while absolutely dying over 2016 notes

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