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    Emily Climbs

    Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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    In the second book of the trilogy, Emily Byrd Starr longs to attend Queen's Academy to earn her teaching license, but her tradition-bound relatives at New Moon refuse. She is instead offered the chance to go to Shrewsbury High School with her friends, but there are two conditions: first, she must live with the aunt she dislikes, and second, she must not write for the duration of her high school education.

    At first, Emily refuses the offer, unable to contemplate a life without writing, but then her cousin changes the condition slightly, amending it to just a restriction concerning writing fiction. Emily does not think this is much of an improvement, but it turns out to be an excellent exercise for her budding writing career.

    In fact, Emily ends up having some of her poems published, and she begins writing for the town newspaper. Soon, Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, but accepting it would mean changing her life forever....

    ©2011 Heirs of L.M. Montgomery / 1925 by Frederick A. Stokes Company (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781520075068
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    Lucy Maud Montgomery

    L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author who published 20 novels and hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays. She is best known for the Anne of Green Gables series. Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island on November 30, 1874. Raised by her maternal grandparents, she grew up in relative isolation and loneliness, developing her creativity with imaginary friends and dreaming of becoming a published writer. Her first book, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908 and was an immediate success, establishing Montgomery's career as a writer, which she continued for the remainder of her life.

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    • 5/5
      Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery; bk 2; (4*)Emily's teenage years are chronicled in this second of the series. Her three years at high school and at the end ... a major decision to make about her future. As ever L.M.M. gets a lot of mileage from the back burner characters (where would our stories be without them?) I enjoyed getting to better know Aunt Ruth, cranky old thing that she was. It is not easy being a teenager, neither then nor now. In many ways this story still feels very contemporary. Obviously not with respect to cambric tea and petticoats, but the feelings and interactions Montgomery describes are fairly universal.While this outing is not quite as good as the first in the series, I still loved it and continue to find it difficult not to compare Anne and Emily. They are both 5 star characters for me but somehow I find Emily's star shining a little brighter.
    • 4/5
      This volume continues the story of Emily of New Moon. Like many of this author's protagonists Emily is an orphan, though taken to raise by somewhat sympathetic distant relatives. And like Anne of Green Gables, Emily loves to write, though no one seems to understand her creative drive. However, unlike Anne, this installment of the series is mainly told through journal entries.It's better than other LM Montgomery's works I've read, though not quite as rich and full as her previous Anne series. Overall, I did enjoy reading about Emily and her family, her experiences at a new school, and plan to read the third book in the trilogy. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      While I love the Anne series, the Emily series hasn't struck as deep of a chord for me. I struggle to read this one because I kept losing interest. I still enjoyed it. I love Emily's backbone and her desire to pursue her writing even when the odds are against her. There are funny parts and sweet parts as she begins attending high school in the next town and is forced to put her writing on hold for awhile. She also realizes that marriage is on the mind of a few of the young men she knows. I will definitely read the final book in the series, but it doesn't hold quite the same place in my heart as Anne Shirley always will.
    • 4/5
      Plenty sentimental, actually.
    • 4/5
      Can't wait for the third book! Will Ilse ever learn discretion? Will Emily learn to be less of a snob? Will Dean learn the hard way or the easy way how creepy he's being? Will Teddy be ready before it's too late? Will Mrs. Kent get a grip?

      Ok, that makes the series sound like a soap opera. But that's how Emily approaches life - though with maturity, and with Mr. Carpenter's mentorship, she's becoming a bit less melodramatic. It's wonderful to follow her childhood and youth through both 'objective' narrative and through her journals.

      I cannot help but think that Montgomery is being arch - that she's not, as she claims, Emily's biographer, but rather that these are almost memoirs. But if one is able to forgive an author for being quaint & clever, one can enjoy such bits as this, when Emily is storming about some indignity and how she won't stand it:

      'Do take a doughnut, pussy.' [said Cousin Jimmy].
      This time Emily tood the doughnut. She might as well have some comfort. Now, you can't eat doughnuts and remain dramatic. Try it."

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    • 5/5
      This is my favorite of the Emily novels. She not a child anymore; but she hasn't the romance problems of when she's older. Emily gets locked int he church with mad Mr. Morrison and Teddy comes to save her. Emily boards with her Aunt Ruth while in high school. I can't imagine having to live with stuffy Aunt Ruth. Then Emily discovers a lost boy, and who could forget The Woman who Spanked the King? This is a must read for all Anne of Green Gables fans.
    • 4/5
      Emily Byrd Starr climbs the "Alpine Path" in this second novel devoted to her story, following upon Emily of New Moon, and preceding Emily's Quest. Determined to persevere in her writing, Emily knows that further education is vital, but is convinced that her guardian - stern Aunt Elizabeth Murray of New Moon farm - will never consent. Imagine her surprise and delight when she discovers that she will have an opportunity to attend high school in nearby Shrewsbury! Delight, that is, until she learns the price: she must give up writing stories for three years...L.M. Montgomery has always been one of my favorite authors, and I recall reading and enjoying the entire Emily Trilogy as a young adolescent, taking its sensitive heroine - with her close circle of friends, her entertaining adventures and misadventures, and her growing talent - very much to heart. I relished Montgomery's intensely descriptive language and romantic sensibility, and identified with Emily's almost mystical appreciation of beauty, and desire to be a writer. I joined her in her contempt for the false Evelyn Blakes of the world, mourned with her when a poem or story was rejected by a magazine, and thrilled with her when one was accepted!Revisiting these books as an adult, as part of the L.M. Montgomery Book Club to which I belong, I have discovered that my appreciation for them, always strong, has been bolstered by a better understanding of the social constraints of their time. Nowhere is this more evident than in this second installment of the series, where Emily finds herself in hot water when her friend Perry steals a kiss, and is almost made a social outcast after a dangerous snow-storm forces her to take shelter in an abandoned house with her good friend Ilse Burnley and (horrors!) two young men. The fact that Emily is often described as Montgomery's most autobiographical creation, makes me wonder if the author was deliberately making a point here, about the absurdity of her own society's obsession with respectability.However that may be, Emily Climbs has retained its place in my literary affections, while also yielding some surprising social commentary that escaped me as a younger reader. I'm glad to have reread it, and look forward to revisiting the third installment!
    • 5/5
      Continuing my re-read, and continuing to love Emily and her world more than I did last time. Especially the bits about being a writer, and the choice she makes at the end of this book (though I am not sure if I think it was the best choice, but I loved that she had to make it).
    • 5/5
      This enchanting bildungsroman book gives the reader view into a young girls life. Set on the beautiful Prince Edward Island, this story is an account of the writer Emily. Emily meets many trails and faces them all dauntlessly with charm, wit and a good dose of Murray pride. All should at least read it, and all kindred writer spirits will love it forever more.
    • 5/5
      While not as endearing as its predessesor, Emily Climbs is nonetheless a delightful installment in the Emily series. In this novel, Emily embarks on the begining of her pursuit of her education and of writing. Her friendships develop and deepen, with one or two taking on entirely new under and overtones. A bit darker by nature than Montgomery's most famous PEI orphan heroine, Anne Shirley, Emily is a contrast in sardonic humour and girlish ideals in a book that paints a sweet, if idealized, picture of Canada just after the turn of the century.
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite of the Emily novels. She not a child anymore; but she hasn't the romance problems of when she's older. Emily gets locked int he church with mad Mr. Morrison and Teddy comes to save her. Emily boards with her Aunt Ruth while in high school. I can't imagine having to live with stuffy Aunt Ruth. Then Emily discovers a lost boy, and who could forget The Woman who Spanked the King? This is a must read for all Anne of Green Gables fans.
    • 5/5
      The second, and I believe the best, in L.M. Montgomery's Emily trilogy, it follows Emily's social life and writing life in her teen years. As in most of Montgomery's books, it's the little things that make this one enjoyable - a line here and there at which it is easy to smile.
    • 5/5
      The second installment of the Emily series doesn't disappoint in the least. It's tone is different from the first in just the right ways and Emily is, as always, Emily. I love this book. I can't read it enough. I've read it so often that my copy has split down the middle.
    • 5/5
      One of the things I really like about this book is how Ms. Montgomery occasionally addresses the reader directly. It always tickles my fancy! I can't decide if it lends an air of authenticity to the idea that Emily is a real person, or if it emphasizes the fact that she is fiction. Either way, I like it. Emily discovers the value of discipline in this volume, as well as the loyalty of family. She is such a likeable character - not because she is perfect, but because of all her imperfections and her appealing personality.
    • 4/5
      As the middle book of a trilogy, my experience tells me that Emily Climbs should suffer some from too much exposition and not enough "action." This is not the case with this book. Emily Climbs is almost a book unto itself, able to stand alone as well as be enjoyed in the context of the other two novels in the series. The story is enjoyable because of how Emily grows and changes through the story as well as how she reacts and interacts with different characters than in Emily of New Moon. I am a fervent and unabashed lover of Emily.
    • 5/5
      My mother bought this book for me when I told her I wanted to be a writer. I love the poetry of LM Montgomery's language. She is best known for Anne of Green Gables, but I think Emily is a much better (though darker) heroine.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as others Id written. Emily of New Moon vs Anne of Green Gables character-wise: I like Anne best.
    • 4/5
      Good story - I think I like Emily better than Anne, she's less...flighty? Aside from excessive pride, she tends to make sensible decisions...well, OK, sensible may be overstating it. Walking seven miles out and the same back...But I like the way she handles things. I'm sure by the end of the series she'll be married, but to whom is unclear - none of the three current candidates really seem up to her weight. We'll see. And another psychic flare - this time she's not sick, but she hates the idea and wants to suppress it as far as possible (good idea, in my opinion!). I was reading quickly because I wanted to get back to another series I'm in the middle of; I'll need to come back to this and give it the attention it deserves, I think.
    • 4/5
      Emily unexpectedly leaves the familiarity of New Moon for three years of high school in Shrewesbury. The only condition from Aunt Elizabeth is that Emily can only write non-fiction while she goes to the school. It's a challenge for Emily, one that's nearly matched by the many trials that come with boarding with her Aunt Ruth, but one that forces her to grow in her writing. At the same time, Emily grows into a young lady and while she continues to get into occasional scrapes, she also becomes more mature as she considers her next steps into the adult world.While not the strongest of Montgomery's novels, there's still plenty to enjoy here. It's simply impossible to read one of Montgomery's novels without ending up with the urge to take a wander in some woods. Emily is a heroine worth rooting for and as this is a first time read, I'm fascinated to see just where Emily ends up as she pursues her career as a writer.
    • 5/5
      I did some reflecting in my (review? Essay? Piece?) thing on Emily of New Moon about why I don't love Emily as much as Anne, why I haven't read the trilogy in many years when I won't let a year go by Anne-less. Emily Climbs clarifies the matter a bit more. There is a great deal more cynicism in Emily's world than in Anne's. I was astonished reading the first chapters at Emily's perceptiveness – and, like any perceptive person moving among the unimaginative and less incisive, she has, very young, developed an almost inevitable shell of jaded sarcasm. Mr. Carpenter doesn't call her "Jade" for nothing. I don't class myself with Emily (or Anne) in terms of intelligence or sensitivity, but still, I am of their ilk. Emily weeps over David Copperfield - oh, how I understand that. Aunt Ruth (not of the race that knows Joseph) upbraids her for the tears – crying over people who don't exist! And, with Emily, I protest that of course they exist. In a meta moment, Emily tells her they are as real as Aunt Ruth is – and so they are, of course. But Ruth is part of the force that demonstrates daily for Emily how flat most people's lives are – none of the terrible deep dark moments for them, but also none of the marvellous highs – nor even the small secret pleasures a combination of being able to see and being able to appreciate can bring. Aunt Elizabeth is Marilla without the sense of humor, and with a solid layer of scarring – from the accident with Jimmy to, probably, the fact that she is single in a time and place where spinsterhood is a wretched condition – to prevent most softer emotions … Aunt Laura has her moments, is loving and more willing and able to share it, but is prim and easily shocked. Uncle Jimmy is wonderful – but not comfortable, always; there is the occasional glimpse of what he might have been, of what was all but killed in him by the fall into the well, and you never quite know when it will make an appearance. Dr. Burnley has gone from bitter and cynical to … rather less bitter and cynical, and somewhat excessive. Aunt Ruth … Were I Emily, I think of the two conditions going to school in Shrewsbury, that I would lodge with Aunt Ruth and that I could not write any fiction for three years, the Aunt Ruth half would be worse. Fiction will still be there when it's over; the scars Aunt Ruth might leave will linger forever. Writing fiction is a passion which would not die in three years; living with Aunt Ruth would be torment. And so it was. The idea of the wild, dark vein that exists here but not in most of the rest of L.M.M.'s work intensified as it went on. Emily has a mean streak – not very big, and not well-developed, but expressed now and then in sarcasm and cutting remarks which send people off bleeding and vowing never to mess with her again. And she has an understanding for darkness; she hears goblins as well as wind spirits, and the thought is inescapable that she could have easily gone either way. Had she been raised by Uncle Wallace … I can see her at the age she is ending the trilogy, with a career as a viciously funny writer, slashing more tender folk to shreds and making millions doing it, but treasuring more the string of scalps at her belt than all the money. I think I was too young to get hold of all of this the last time I read Emily, and so these three books were not as enjoyable as the sweet and lovely place that is Anne's Avonlea. Anne has her moments – but compare her handling of Josie Pye to Emily's dealings with the evil Evelyn Blake. Anne wins by taking the high road, and Josie Pye, Pye-like, would never recognize her victory; Emily routs Evelyn foot and horse and leaves her bleeding in the dust. I loved this tale of the teenaged girl beginning to make a mark for herself. The tangled webs, to reference another LMM work, are beginning to tighten, but they aren't too heavy yet; the future is still completely unwritten, or seemingly so, and hope is high. There is a savor of the time and place, not so very long ago or very far away except in everything that matters; good companionship; wonderful writing; pathos in its best sense and moments that made me laugh aloud. Middle books are often maligned and disregarded things, but this is by far my favorite of the three. I'll never again be able to leave Emily out my list of the Montgomery girls I love.
    • 4/5
      Emily is now a young woman who desperately wants to go to high school in a nearby town.  All of her friends are going, and where else will she learn how to write? Finally her aunt agrees... she can go IF she won't write anymore. Can Emily do it? Will high school be worth it? And what other "scrapes" will she and Ilse get into in the process.A sweet, mostly gentle sequel to "Emily of New Moon."