This is uncanny. I knew my first reading of this was around this time in 2020, but I had no idea it was almost to the day! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
This is uncanny. I knew my first reading of this was around this time in 2020, but I had no idea it was almost to the day! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush discussion- part 6
Did you enjoy this book? What did you like or dislike?
Will you continue on to read Mistress Pat?
Is there anything else you‘d like to discuss about Pat of Silver Bush?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush discussion - part 5
In this book, the places themselves almost act as characters within the narrative. There are many beloved places described here—from Silver Bush itself, to the Secret Field, the Hill of the Mist, Happiness, and Jordan. Do you have beloved places in your life that have acted as “characters” in your own story?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush discussion part 4
Love of home and resistance to change are two fairly obvious themes throughout Pat of Silver Bush. Did you resonate with these themes as presented here in the book? Why or why not?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush discussion part 3
At least from the reader‘s perspective, we see very little of the parents; Judy is a much larger presence in the home and in Pat‘s life. What do you think about the family dynamics within the Gardiner clan? Whether parent/child or sibling relationships—how do these contribute to Pat‘s character?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush discussion part 2
Judy, Sid, May Binnie, Jingle, Bets—there are some wonderful supporting characters here. Which are your favorites? I won‘t ask how they contribute to Pat‘s growth, since, well… she doesn‘t change much. But what roles do these supporting characters play within the story?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Pat of Silver Bush Discussion part 1
One of the main criticisms of the book is that Pat herself is a completely static character. What do you think of Pat? Did you find her likable or frustrating or somewhere in between?
I feel like I‘ve been SO MIA on Litsy and with my reading in general this month, BUT… I am still planning on discussing Pat of Silver Bush on Saturday! Hoping everyone can join in. I‘m definitely looking forward to hearing what we all have to say about Pat!!
This is a busy weekend for me, so questions won‘t be posted til late afternoon on Saturday (Pacific Time). Jump in and discuss when you are able!
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
Borderline pan. This was definitely my least favorite Montgomery to date. I complained about it at length on GR (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4943465140) but to sum up - I've rarely read such a completely stagnant character. Pat went absolutely nowhere in the 10+ years this book covers. She's obsessed with keeping things the same and keeping everyone at Silver Bush at the age of 7, and she's exactly the same at the age of 19 in the end ⬇
#BookReport
Finished the tagged #KinderedSpiritsBuddyRead and continued Minor Feelings #SheSaid
I read The Pull of the Stars.
Still reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and I‘ve started Birds, Beasts and Relatives.
She had an endless store of weird yarns of ghosts & “rale nice murders”… Pat‘s favorite one was a horrible tale of a murdered man who was found in pieces about the house…an arm in the garret…a head in the cellar…a hambone in a pot in the pantry. “It gives me such a lovely shudder, Judy.”
Starting this month‘s #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead & finding it hilarious that Judy thinks it‘s appropriate to tell 6-year-old Pat stories about dismembered bodies⤵️
#WeeklyForecast
Keep up with the buddy reads, the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Minor Feelings #SheSaid
Continue reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but I don‘t think I can read so much of it at a time so I also want to read both The Pull of the Stars and Birds, Beasts and Relatives
#BookReport
Kept up with the buddy reads, the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Minor Feelings #SheSaid
Finished Either/Or.
I‘m almost done with Summer with Proust.
I started The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and am about a third of the way into it. Not sure how I feel, there‘s a lot of weird characters here.
I needed a break from it last night and started Tokyo Express. I will finish this today.
Currently reading for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead.
(And I‘m a bit surprised that I never got to this one as a kid).
#WeeklyForecast
Continue the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Minor Feelings #SheSaid
Continue A Summer with Proust.
Finish Either/Or #CampLitsy and read as much as possible of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle #BookSpin. This will be my first Murakami and I have no idea if this is a good place to start.
My books came yesterday, so I'm ready to start my first #kindredspiritsbuddyread. I'm looking forward to it!
#BookReport
Started the tagged book #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Minor Feelings #SheSaid
I finished The Accidental, and read both Dogs of Summer and Things Are Against Us.
I‘m currently reading Either/ Or #CampLitsy
Pat had a firm belief that if you could only open the door of any shut room quickly enough you would catch all the furniture in strange situations. The chairs crowded together talking, the table lifting its white muslin skirts to show its pink sateen petticoat, the fire shovel and tongs dancing a fandango by themselves. But then you never could. Some sound always warned them and they were back in their places as demure as you please.
This months #kindredspiritsbuddyread hosted by @barbarajean All are welcome to join! Feel free to visit her page or tag her with any questions.
Next up for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead: Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat. I first read these in 2020–they were such lovely comfort reads that I decided I needed to re-read Anne… and thus the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead was born. 😊 I‘m looking forward to re-reading even though it hasn‘t been that long!
All are welcome to join in—we‘ll discuss Pat on August 28th & Mistress Pat on Sept. 24. Let me know if you‘re not tagged & would like to be!
#WeeklyForecast
Finish The Accidental
Start the tagged #KinderedSpiritsBuddyRead, Minor Feelings (ready for pick up at the library) #SheSaid and Either/ Or #CampLitsy
I also want to start Things Are Against Us
This was lovely & homey—such a comfort read. I haven‘t read this series before, and although Valancy, Emily, and Anne will always be at the top of my list of L.M. Montgomery heroines, Pat is still a dear little soul, enamored by beauty and the delights of home & family. And during these days where there is so much uncertainty & change, Pat‘s almost obsessive desire for everything in her idyllic world to stay exactly the same felt very relatable!
“I wouldn‘t have hated you for telling me this, May Binnie, if you hadn‘t *liked* telling it. But I am going to tell God about you to-night.”
What a threat! The italics just kill me! 🤣
Not my favourite Montgomery series by any means, but interesting for it's oddity. Anyone read it? It sort of feels like she has given up on the genre. (Or on romance.) But I do have this pretty matching set!
#20series20days @Andrew65
While most of my childhood books are long gone, I have managed to hold onto almost all of my L.M. Montgomery books. #childhoodreads #24in48
“Marrying‘s a trouble and not marrying‘s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.” Oh Judy Plum I adore you 😍 Sitting on my back porch reading this book and enjoying some “patriotic” Sangria.
Up next: a reread of another series by LM Montgomery that is better than the Anne books.
Do two books count as a #series? 😊 #maylovesclassics #litsyclassicshost
@DebinHawaii Here are more L. M. Montgomery books featuring cats for you and Max. 😸
The Pat of Silver Bush books are 99 cents on Kindle today! So excited as I have been looking for mine the last few months and couldn‘t find them. I love these books. I love Anne but I really, really love Emily and Pat. Both series are 99 cents!
Books with #goldandsilver in the titles, with #multipleeditions of the tagged book. #fallintobooks #autumnreads
Day 10 #siblings #aprilbookshowers Neither Anne, Emily, Jane, nor Valancy have siblings, but Pat does. And my Mikey-Cat is missing his beagle brother.