After watching Anne grow up and become a wife and mother, this book chronicles several years of motherhood, with an eventual six children. Like many of the other books in this series, there’s not exactly a single plot to the book, more a series of vignettes about the children’s antics and some of Anne’s own activities. Some of her children are a lot like her, fanciful and whimsical, and in some ways, it was like seeing Anne as a child again.

It was interesting, and I’m not entirely sure how realistic, that so many of her children’s scrapes led them to be outside on their own at night. I really felt for some of them, considering the ways they tended to let their imaginations run away with them. I can remember being a kid and not fully understanding what was going on, and that leading me to be scared, unhappy, sad, etc. when I probably didn’t need to be.

I did not care at all for Aunt Mary Maria, which I’m sure was intentional, but she when had the audacity to tell one of the kids, as they were about to leave home for 2 weeks, that if he was naughty, a man would grab him up in a big, black bag, I couldn’t believe it! And this after scoffing at one of the other kids for still believing in Santa, which is such hypocrisy. I don’t care what generation you’re from, you wouldn’t get away with scaring my kids like that.

I liked seeing some of the characters back from previous books, and overall, I didn’t mind that Anne had grown up so much. It wasn’t my favorite of the sequels (that honor goes to the previous, Anne’s House of Dreams), but I still liked it a lot. It’s the last book in the series proper, and I may someday read the final two books, but for now, I think I’ll stop here. When I re-read Anne of Green Gables in the future, I may skip past the next few and only re-read books 5 & 6. I’m just not a huge fan of the rest. ( )

This book picks up from Anne's House of Dreams, but many years down the road. At the end of that novel, Gilbert and Anne are moving to a new home with their first child, who is still a baby. At the beginning of this novel, Anne is pregnant with her umpteenth child. Gilbert's great-aunt is staying with them, and no one likes her overbearing ways but they don't have the heart to send family away. After this part, the book becomes about the Blythe children and little vignettes from their lives such as worrying that Anne is ill and dying when she is in labor, saving up money to buy a strand of pearls for Anne, making bargains with God over silly things during nightly prayers, becoming friends with schoolmates who have a tendency to over exaggerate, and so on.

As this series continues, it seems to be a case of diminishing returns. I really hated the jump in time between the last novel and this one because I felt I didn't get to know these new children well and could never keep them straight in my head, which wouldn't have happened if a mess of them hadn't been introduced in one breath but instead been added to the family slowly over time.

I also disliked that the focus came away from Anne. It's not that hearing about the children's lives wasn't cute (and it did add back in the mishaps and foibles from the first two books in the series), but it's that we didn't see these from Anne's perspective. Instead there's a collective narration at times from the point of view of the children as a faceless mass. For instance, there's many passages such as this one: "That year was always referred to in the Ingleside chronicles as the one in which Dad almost had pneumonia and Mother had it. One night, Anne, who already had a nasty cold, went with Gilbert to a party in Charlottetown...wearing a new and very becoming dress and Jem's string of pearls. She looked so well in it that all the children who had come in to see her before she left thought it was wonderful to have a mother you could be so proud of." Also, I hated that our fierce, funny, and all-around likeable Anne is reduced to having her great accomplishment be looking pretty.

In addition, with all these children and their adventures to keep track of, we hardly ever hear a peep about Avonlea folks, which has unfortunately been the case in several of the later books. There's a brief recap in the beginning of the book that felt nostalgically nice, but after that any mentions became few and far between. However, we also barely hear about all the new acquaintances and friends that Anne made in Glen St. Mary during the previous title either, other than their live-in housekeeper Susan. Others make an occasional appearance or brief mention. I wish we heard more about Leslie at least but she's barely a cameo.

One thing that several editions of this book mention in the short blurb is how Anne needs to convince Gilbert to still be in love with her, or something to that effect. This is only one short vignette, which is literally in the last chapter! By this time, it has been 15 years since their wedding day and an old beau of Gilbert's is in town, so Anne starts to get jealous. Although brief, this chapter felt more like an Anne of Green Gables book, with a feisty Anne and some misunderstandings that all get cleared up.

I will continue with the next two books since I've almost completed my re-read of this series. I just wish it had held up to my memory of it better, because these later books have been disappointing.

The audiobook narrator for this book was just so-so. She tried to give different voices to different characters but they are all just okay. I felt her general narration could have been a little more lively overall. ( )

Not my favorite of the Anne books, but a good read just the same. I wish there was more of Anne in it. This book seemed to center a good deal around her children. Walter and Jem are my favorites. There was a lot of animal dying in this book, which disturbed me greatly.

Still, a pleasant way to immerse yourself in the world of Anne of Green Gables, even if Anne's appearance is not as prevalent as it might be. ( )

Anne of Ingleside is the sixth & last book in the Anne series. This story is the continuing story of Anne, Gilbert & their children. I read my mum's copies of the Anne series, not realising there were a couple missing until I spied them in an op shop one day. I was very glad I did! This story is told with LM Montgomery's beautiful prose charming storytelling.

Tras realizar una visita a Avonlea, Ana vuelve a Ingleside, la que es ahora su casa. Han pasado seis años desde que ella y Gilbert dejaran atrás la Casa de sus Sueños y el joven matrimonio se ha transformado en toda una familia con cinco hijos: James Matthew «Jem», que ahora tiene ocho años; Walter, un año menor y con una imaginación desbordante heredada de su madre; Ana «Nan» y Diana «Di», dos mellizas de cuatro años que no pueden ser más diferentes entre sí, y Shirley, el benjamín y favorito de Susan Baker, el ama de llaves de la casa. Aunque no será el menor por mucho tiempo, ya que pronto asistiremos al nacimiento de Bertha Marilla Blythe, a la que todos conocerán como «Rilla».Ana es ya una mujer adulta, pero en el fondo seguirá siendo la misma pelirroja alegre y llena de imaginación que fue adoptada en Tejas Verdes. Familiares cargantes, dudas sobre el amor y otras aventuras seguirán acaeciendo en su vida, a lo que habrá que sumar las peripecias y travesuras de sus hijos, que alegrarán a todos con su incontenible energía. "Ana la de Ingleside" es la sexta entrega de la maravillosa saga que ha fascinado a lectores de todas las edades, servida por la exquisita y tierna pluma de Lucy Maud Montgomery.