Against The Odds is my third book for the Canadian Book Challenge (and probably my first of two or three LMM books for said challenge). I hate to say it, but this really was my least favourite of Montgomery’s short story books that I’ve read thus far. It wasn’t that it was bad – some of the stories I enjoyed, some of them gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling, but none of them really stood out. Thinking back on those which were in the book, I only remember what a few of them were about. Overall, this book did very little for me, sadly.

That said, of the few that I still actually remember, one of them made me give a little squeal. How We Went to the Wedding was the longest in the collection, I think, and it dragged. Not much happened in all honesty – two girls set out to go to a wedding in the wettest fall Saskatchewan had seen in a long time. They had to avoid lakes where lakes should not have been, their guide disappeared on them, and I thought the story would never end until Mrs. Matilda Pitman appeared. And oh, all was wonderful all of a sudden, because I realized that this was the first appearance of a much-loved character from Rilla of Ingleside. The chapter in Rilla is practically the same as the bit of How We Went to the Wedding where Mrs. Matilda Pitman appeared, but that made it more enjoyable and will make my next re-read of Rilla be more entertaining as I’ll have a bit more background to that part of the story (in that I knew where Montgomery got that part from).

Other than that brief moment of squeeage, however, this book didn’t do much more me. Alas. Hopefully I’ll enjoy the rest of the short story books better, and that this is just a fluke.