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Title: Mistress Pat by Lucy Maud Montgomery ISBN: 0-7857-4938-1 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Poignant
Comment: Yes, Pat's devotion to Silver Bush can skirt awfully close to neurotic heights BUT this book is just so poignant. The fact of its spanning 11 years is one of its greatest strengths -- I think it lets us know how time can pass so quickly, unchanging in many ways, but interspersed with life-altering events. Characters in this book mature and change -- look at "Cuddles" into Rae. And the love she and Pat share is wonderful; most of LMM's heroines have that all-supportive best friend, but I think this portrayal of sisters is wonderful, and they fight like sisters would, too.
No heroic struggles to achieve fame are here, but Pat definitely has to endure things large and small. From the passage of time, of life, to everyday annoyances. To have May Binnie brought into your very own home, and try not to be awful to her for your brother's sake -- ! I think it would be very harrowing to live with someone so alien and unsympathetic, in your very own beloved house -- living with a thousand small pinpricks a day.
Finally, Judy's death -- so well-written. Grievously sad but not maudlin -- the touches of humor Judy displays, her courage in dying -- I just don't think you'd have seen anything like that in earlier LMM works.
I never bothered purchasing a copy of Pat of Silver Bush for my own -- not that it wasn't well worth a read. But my copy of Mistress Pat was so well-read the cover fell off.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting
Comment: SHe was interesting, but I agree with what someone else said that she needed depth. I found a writer and was inspired by it.
I found the David character particulary interesting. He was like Dean but not quite so vile. And he didn't do to Pat what Dean did to Emily.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as Good as First
Comment: I read the first book in this series with relief. I always found the L.M. Montgomery books a relief from my own experiences in our tumultous household. The Gardiners seem like a truly happy family.
There should have been more of Jingle in this book. You can tell Montgomery probably wrote it just to get something out for the people that wanted to see what happened to Pat. I thought it was necessary to have Silver Bush burn down at the end, and have all her trouble with Rae portrayed.
The book should never have covered 11 years. That actually made it kind of depressing.
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Title: Pat Of Silverbush by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0770422470 Publisher: Bantam/Seal Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0770422454 Publisher: Bantam/Seal Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0553280511 Publisher: Starfire Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Road to Yesterday by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0553560689 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery ISBN: 0553264931 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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