Anne's wonderfull, lively children found a special place all their own. Rainbow Valley was the perfect spot to play, to dream and to make the most unusual friends, like the Merediths.

Neugierdehalber beim Treffen in Rennerod mitgenommen, danke!
(Out of curiosity taken with me at the meeting in Rennerod. Thank you.)

A really cute warm-hearted humorous and romantic childhood story which I really liked to dive into until I reached the happy ending. (Of course there had to be a happy ending.)
Thank you, sanne2!

Two remarks:
1) From a modern point of view, I thought a little about the role of men and women in the story (the book is set just before WWI): The book suggests that only a woman can bring up children properly and also that the minister and his children are not able to figure out cooking and sewing themselves if necessary (though Mary Vance or Susan or Anne would surely have taught them) - so the importance of women is overemphasized and they seem not unhappy about what society sees as their destiny. In our times, however, we would see them to be "reduced" to this role.

2) When I imagined living in this town, I felt fine to live where people care for each other, but all the gossip and rumours (which are often misunderstood and then lead to Faith's funny but even more embarrassing "explanations") and the need of fulfilling the community's expectations and standards made me shiver.

I have to admit that I cheated: As I saw that this book is the 7th part of a series, I looked up what it was all about before I started reading, and then I found the online version which has the enormous advantage that you can right-click on a word to look it up in the dictionary (as English is not my native language), so I read the story on the computer while the book just sat on the table.

My favourite quotes:
"[...] that blessed child would never have thought of riding on a pig, even if he does write poetry."
"A young couple came to the manse to be married and Mr. Meredith [...] began by reading the funeral service to them and got along as far as "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" before he vaguely suspected that something was wrong." (Mr. Meredith is portrayed to always be mentally absent.)
"The poor minister did not even know what he should whip his boy with. What was used to whip boys? Rods? Canes?" (The father sees it as his duty to punish his son, however he just can't beat him.)

I like Anne a lot, but never got so far to read book No.7 yet.

This book will be travelling with me to Göteborg, Sweden to the international bookcrossing convention 19.- 21. April 2013.


I left the book on sunday afternoon where Annelis found it on monday :-)

I found the book in a tree in the Haga Park when I was walking with Kirjakko around in Gothenburg.

I left the book in the same tree where I found it in the park in front of the Haga Church.
Happy reading!

I was actually there at the same time as Annelis, forgot to write down the BCID, went for a disasterous walk in the Haga-district and became a Fallen Lady. Limped back to the tree with a sore knee and a fractured finger (Sweden is a dangerous country) and scribbled down the BCID on a very small piece of paper. So small that it was first now that I found it. As I'm always curious to know what will happen to the books I've seen in the wild I'm adding myself in this thread.
Dear New Reader! Please let us know how this book is doing nowadays!