L.M. Montgomery is a long time and all time favorite author of mine. She writes the perfect girls story with just the right mix of adventure, drama and happiness. I find her books a comfort to read and have re-read most of her works many times over the years. They are classics for a reason and that reason is they are great. These are true comfort books for me and books I enjoy re-reading again and again. ( )

This is a nice collection of short stories by the author of Anne of Green Gables. As with many of L.M. Montgomery's other works, the plots are often predictable, but the tales are sweet, or bittersweet, giving us a view of people from a century ago, with all their faults, foibles, and strengths. ( )

These stories are primarily ones that never saw the light of day after being published in magazines in Montgomery's lifetime. There's a reason for that. I love reading more my L.M. Montgomery, but these are not my favorites. Maybe because they're grouped together by theme? The stories get very repetitive. And some of the stories showed up as scenes in her books. Fans of Montgomery should read these, but don't pick this up expecting to fall in love with it. ( )

Nice little stories, good for bedtime. Montgomery is an awesome writer--the imagery and dialogue are superb and almost beyond critique--but there's a lack of variety in her style that becomes more noticeable, the more books of hers I read. Her biography helps explain things: she never really "got out." Yes, the fact that she spent her entire life in or close to her birthplace on PEI does lend a certain quaint simplicity to her work, but she loses something by it, too: variety! ( )

http://books.moonsoar.com/archives/2008/04/26/after-many-days/ ( )