The Blue Castle


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(4.4 stars; 218 reviews)

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)

Chapters

Chapter 1 23:02 Read by Christine Rottger
Chapter 2 8:39 Read by Elisabetta Corti
Chapter 3 11:28 Read by James R. Hedrick
Chapter 4 5:04 Read by Ruth Eden
Chapter 5 8:50 Read by Ruth Eden
Chapter 6 13:23 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 7 11:46 Read by Leo Parrill
Chapter 8 16:45 Read by Ash707
Chapter 9 7:54 Read by Leo Parrill
Chapter 10 16:20 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 11 24:19 Read by Rina Zelen Souppa
Chapter 12 4:31 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 13 6:06 Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Chapter 14 13:19 Read by Rina Zelen Souppa
Chapter 15 5:35 Read by Riley Ruiz
Chapter 16 6:44 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 17 8:29 Read by Christine Rottger
Chapter 18 10:31 Read by Dulaney High Key Club
Chapter 19 11:25 Read by Dulaney High Key Club
Chapter 20 19:50 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 21 15:30 Read by docdlmartin
Chapter 22 5:40 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 23 7:41 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 24 7:14 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 25 9:44 Read by Christine Rottger
Chapter 26 11:12 Read by Christine Rottger
Chapter 27 21:17 Read by Aamina Missria
Chapter 28 8:19 Read by Aamina Missria
Chapter 29 9:22 Read by Christine Rottger
Chapter 30 7:32 Read by EmberLin
Chapter 31 14:30 Read by JSWS
Chapter 32 9:34 Read by JSWS
Chapter 33 5:30 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 34 8:07 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 35 9:17 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 36 4:04 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 37 7:51 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 38 23:07 Read by Nancy Gorgen
Chapter 39 7:56 Read by TheIntern356
Chapter 40 15:34 Read by TheIntern356
Chapter 41 5:35 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 42 21:57 Read by littlemissclumsy
Chapter 43 3:15 Read by KevinS
Chapter 44 2:23 Read by KevinS
Chapter 45 1:48 Read by Scarbo

Reviews

Botched reading


(2 stars)

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.

Good Book!


(4 stars)

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!

charming


(5 stars)

The text is wonderful, I have read the book many times. The LibriVox audio is charming! I really like the different accents and styles of reading. It's so nice knowing so many different people love this book enough to devote their time to reading a chapter or two. Some readers are better than others...


(4 stars)

I read this book, gave it to my daughter and enjoyed listening to the librivox readers version. This book reminds me of Gene Stratton Porter novels that have a lot of natural world descriptions along with a story you want to hear. Most of the readers were enjoyable. Thank you for reading.


(5 stars)

I love this story of finding freedom from an oppressive life! The Blue Castle has long been a favorite book of mine. The readers are mostly good. A few were in need of coaching in pronunciation or expression, but not bad enough to make me quit listening.


(5 stars)

a wonderful entertaining story.It is a little similar to Veronica decided to die by Paolo Coelo


(4 stars)

love this story! Lucy Maud's best read! some was a little hard to understand.

I well enjoyed this book!


(4.5 stars)

This book was very well read! I agree with gosia101, it’s wonderful that so many people put in the effort to read a few chapters of this book. Some of the readers were very good, while others were less awesome…Ash707 read too fast with very little spirit. I couldn’t understand her very well. Christine Rottger sounded as though she had a cold. And littlemissclumsy was also hard to understand. Other than that, most of the readers were pretty good. Also, I disagree with the reviewers that say they think Valancy is self-centred and just feels sorry for herself. But wouldn’t you feel the same if you were in her position? I think she’s just tired of monotony and wants a change. I really enjoy this story, especially Valancy’s personality. And she’s Valancy, not Anne, so of course she won’t have the same bounce as Anne does.