I love all of the Anne books, and I never seem to tire of re-reading them. This isn't my favourite one - it gets only four stars because I'm not a big fan of stories told through letters, but the stories and characters are so vivid that it makes up for my dislike of the format. It's been a few years since I read this one last - I always get stuck on the first three - but this one contains all of the charm of the earlier Anne stories. My only complaint is that some of the characters do seem rather similar: all of the "old maids" - and there are a lot - seem extremely pessimistic and I can't imagine that anyone would want to put up with their complaints. But the fact that those characters annoy me is really a testament to Montgomery's writing.