The Blue Castle
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
(4,505 Sterne; 93 Bewertungen)
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her year in which she finds a blue castle of happiness in the Canadian woods.
The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables. (Summary adapted from ALA Booklist) (7 hr 57 min)
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Bewertungen
Geraldine Rourke
(5 Sterne)
a wonderful entertaining story.It is a little similar to Veronica decided to die by Paolo Coelo
Jennifer Isaac
(4 Sterne)
love this story! Lucy Maud's best read! some was a little hard to understand.
Botched reading
Penelope
(2 Sterne)
So first I love this book which is why I listened to it. But after listening to this botched audio, maybe I'll just read my physical copy. For instance "Methodist" was pronounced "meTHOdist," "islets" as "izluts," "sew" as "soo," "clergy" as "clerghy," and the name of the main character (Valancy) was pronounced four different ways. Surely one pronunciation is enough?? Librivox, isn't there any quality control before a book is added to the list of titles???? Or how about at least giving each reader a list of correct pronunciations of characters and places so there is some sort of harmonious connection between the different readers so the listeners can actually enjoy the book?? I gave the two stars for the few decent readers I did find in this audio.
Lacks the charm of the Anne books
Kathy Rippel
(2 Sterne)
Although things do get better as the book goes along, I really had trouble getting into this book by the author of The Anne of Green Gables series. Where Anne is just bristles with charm, even when she's getting in trouble, our heroine here just seems to feel sorry for herself. She does finally get the nerve to strike out on her own, but even then she just doesn't have that same pizzazz that Anne does. The narration for this one is pretty uneven, but I was glad to find it available.
Good Book!
Norene
(4 Sterne)
The 4 stars are for the book with one star taken off for the readers. It’s too hard to try to adjust to new voices all the time. The readers themselves were pretty good, but I thought it would be better if only one person did the whole book!
A Favourite
Wendy L
(5 Sterne)
This is my favourite of all L.M. Montgomery's books. It is not one that she meant for children. It's a great story of someone who decides to make the most of the rest of their life. Thank you to all of the readers!
Favorite LMM novel
Anna Echols
(5 Sterne)
The Blue Castle has always been my favorite LM Montgomery book. I love cheering on the main character like in the author's other novels, but there are also deep and mature thoughts conveyed in this story. Thank you volunteers for the reading!
CJ Plogue
(5 Sterne)
Excellent little book. Love to watch the soaring of a free spirit! Read by several Librivox volunteers which I am usually not a fan of, but for the most part, the book flowed freely and it was an enjoyable listen!