![]() Perhaps we readers are meant to all-the-more strongly sympathize with the poor man with the incredibly useless wife. The wife in “The Birds” was particularly annoying. ![]() I don’t like choosing favourites.)īut the female characters in this collection’s stories are described in such negative terms and presented in such limited and predictable roles that much of the fun was siphoned away. (“The Old Man” was my next favourite, but then I get nervous about choosing favourites after that because there are only six stories in total and I don’t like to think that one of them would end up at the bottom of my list. Yes, there are enjoyable elements to every one. Partly because it’s deliciously creepy.īut deliciously creepy, with a slightly bitter note, as is true of all the stories to some degree. Montgomery’s novels, in which heroines from Anne of Green Gables to Emily of New Moon to Pat of Silver Bush, named and loved trees. ![]() Partly because I’ve long believed that there is more to a tree than one might think, thanks to years of reading L.M. ![]() My favourite story from this collection is “The Apple Tree”. ![]()
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