Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery

As I mentioned before, I hadn't been overly pleased with my first reading of Rainbow Valley. Perhaps because I'd skipped Anne of Ingleside. In anycase I felt that the whole story had gone to far from the Blythes and was focused almost completely on the Merediths. That is indeed the case. But this time I didn't mind. I liked it quite a lot. The young Blythes get a fair amount of coverage but Gilbert is almost erased from the picture as far as dialogue. I can only think of one place where he had anything to say...

I think Faith was my favorite of the Merediths. One wonders though, if anyone could possibly be quite as abstracted (or distracted) as Mr. Meredith. Of course he woke up a bit in the later part but he was very absent minded to begin with. In anycase... there are my little comments. You can read excerpts or the entire work at one, or both of the following links...

At Project Gutenberg

At "The Other Place"