#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 6
Is there anything else you‘d like to talk about from The Story Girl? Comparisons with the Road to Avonlea series? 😊
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 6
Is there anything else you‘d like to talk about from The Story Girl? Comparisons with the Road to Avonlea series? 😊
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 5
The kids talk a lot about topics of faith and religion, with many discussions around prayer—what should or shouldn‘t be the subject of prayer, and even whether praying does any good. What do you think of the way Montgomery draws out these topics throughout the book? What did you think about the way the kids talk about faith and religion?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 4
Most of the book is narrated as if in the moment, but at other times, Bev reminisces, commenting on the events of the story as an adult. Did those moments work for you? Do they add to or detract from this story of childhood?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 3
What did you think of the choice to have Bev King as the narrator? What does his perspective add to the story? (Or does it add anything?)
If you could choose a different POV character, who would you pick?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion # 2
There‘s an ensemble cast here, much like in Rainbow Valley. Which character is most vivid for you? Who is your favorite?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Story Girl Discussion #1
What are some of your favorite adventures that the kids get up to in the book?
Do you have a favorite story told by the Story Girl?
#BookReport
Finished the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and continued reading Wuthering Heights #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens
Finished The Yips and Mantel Pieces.
I read Death on the Nile and Pinocchio.
I‘d never read this before, and it was a delightful comfort read! Sweet adventures of a summer (and on into fall and winter), with stories, escapades, quarrels, and games among siblings & cousins & friends. For me, it captured well all the weighty & petty & fraught concerns of a group of kids. It doesn‘t have the depth of Anne or Emily (or my fave, The Blue Castle), but it was still a lovely escape. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead discussion tomorrow!
I finished this one yesterday in a big gulp, after being true to my chapter-a-day for most of the month haha I hadn't read this one in probably 15 years so it was lovely to visit these characters again. A fun little story about a group of cousins/siblings/neighbors. I can remember always wishing I had an amazing orchard with such a rich family history. Looking forward to discussing this one for January's #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead !!
Just a reminder: the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead discussion of The Story Girl will be on Saturday! I‘ll post questions around mid-day Pacific Time, and feel free to jump into the discussion when you are able!
#WeeklyForecast
Finish the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and continue reading Wuthering Heights #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens
I want to finish The Yips and hopefully also Mantel Pieces
I want to read Death on the Nile the group read for #foodandlit #Egypt and I want to start Pinocchio #ChildrensClassicRead
I finished this light and fun listen today. I had a major L.M. Montgomery reading phase, but I honestly cannot remember reading this one. I enjoyed it but not nearly as much as several other L.M. Montgomery books, and I don‘t think it will stick with me either.
#Audiobook #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#BookReport
I continued the chapter a day reading of Wuthering Heights #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens and The Story Girl #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
I read Autumn
I‘m currently reading both Mantel Pieces and The Yips
“If your Aunt Olivia was to up and get married what would your Uncle Roger do for a housekeeper?” asked Peter.
“Oh, but Aunt Olivia will never be married now,” said Felicity. “Why, she‘ll be twenty-nine next January.”
“Well, o‘course that‘s pretty old,” admitted Peter, “but she might find some one who wouldn‘t mind that, seeing she‘s so pretty.”
🙄
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
I‘m a huge fan of the Road To Avonlea TV series and it was so fun to read this again. It has that same warm and cozy vibe as the AOGG series. I‘m looking forward to book 2 because it‘s been 10 years since I read it and I don‘t really remember anything about it. LMM‘s books are perfect when you need an escape from harsh reality. 5⭐️
#classics
#LMMontgomery
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
There is such a place as fairyland— but only children can find the way to it… Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals… The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#WeeklyForecast
Continue the tagged book #KinderedSpiritsBuddyRead and Wuthering Heights #WanderingTheoughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens
Continue reading Mantel Pieces.
I want to reread Autumn and get a good start on The Yips.
1* This is one of the several audiobooks I‘ve started but haven‘t finished.
2* Cold with 50mph winds 🥶🥶
3* hot bath 🛁, apple cinnamon tea 🍵, my t-shirt quilt, and furry slippers
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
#BookReport
I continued the chapter a day buddy reads of Wuthering Heights #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens and the tagged book #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
I finished Children of Gebelawi and Little Virtues.
I‘ve started Stay Another Day and Mantel Pieces
FINALLY starting this for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead!! I‘ve gotten a small handle on my excess ebook situation (so many holds at once, and only so many hours I can screen-read!)—so I‘m just diving in tonight.
Who else has started their reading of The Story Girl? What do you think so far?
#WeeklyForecast
Continue The Story Girl #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Wuthering Heights #WanteringThroughWutheringHeights PermberLittens
Hopefully read an essay or so in Little Virtues
Continue reading Children of Gebelawi. This book is denser than I expected and is taking longer to read.
#BookReport
I‘ve started the buddy reads of the tagged book #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Wuthering Heights #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights #PemberLittens
I finished 84 Charing Cross Road and The Fran Lebowitz Reader
I read Thursday‘s Children and Kleopatra
I‘m currently reading Children of Gebelawi.
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead with @BarbaraJean will be reading and discussing The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery for January. #BuddyRead
#WeeklyForecast
I want to finish The Fran Lebowitz Reader
I‘m going to start two buddy reads, The Story Girl #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Wuthering Heights #PemberLittens #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights
I want to read both 84 Charing Cross Road and Thursday‘s Children.
After a hiatus in December, #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead will pick up again in January with The Story Girl! Feel free to read along at your own pace throughout the month and we‘ll discuss on the 29th.
All are welcome—feel free to join in if you‘d like! I‘ve tagged those who expressed interest, but if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be, please comment and let me know!
The #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead is taking a break in December, but we‘ll pick up again in the new year with The Story Girl & The Golden Road. I‘ve tagged those who were interested, but all are welcome—comment if you‘d like to be tagged!
Both of these have roughly 30 chapters—we could continue chapter-a-day, but it seems most of us have a hard time keeping to daily chapters! How about one book per month, with a discussion at the end of the month?
Anne and Emily are such beloved heroines, but let's not forget about the other brave, spirited, determined girls that LMM gave us! #CanadaDay #JulyJourneys
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Just finished reading The Story Girl which had been sitting on my desk for years. It‘s a sweet wholesome book with clever writing and witty humour. I‘m surprised I enjoyed it since almost each chapter is it‘s own self contained story though it does have continuity (same characters, setting etc). I would read the sequel, The Golden Road but I don‘t have the book. I could see the book as a kids TV show. The photo above is the same cover as my book.
I‘ve got TWO reading buddies today! They‘re gonna help me finish my reread.
It‘s been many, many years since I last read THE STORY GIRL, and while it‘s still special to me, some parts hit me differently now. For example, I‘m way more conscious of the racism behind all their concern about “heathens,” and the casually dismissive/derisive way the kids view non-Christians in general. And the classism—oy.
This was my most enduring takeaway from THE STORY GIRL when I was a kid. I spent years and years telling everybody they should NEVER eat cucumbers and milk together or they‘d DIE.
(Kid Me missed the “it‘s no deidly” bit.)
Then I grew up and learned this isn‘t universally true! It might not be true AT ALL! (There‘re conflicting sources.) Now I go around telling everyone how L.M. Montgomery lied to me about cucumber poisons.
It felt like a good time to reread THE STORY GIRL. This was my co-favourite Montgomery when I was a kid, along with THE BLUE CASTLE.
It‘s a good time for hot cross buns, too. Here in MB, they‘re always made with mixed fruit, and when I lived in Auckland I was horrified to find NZ takes the raisins-only approach. A friend in the Maritimes told me they go raisins-only there, too. This saddens me, y‘all. I‘m glad to live in mixed fruit territory.
Day 10 of #20Series20Days #Top20Series These aren‘t my favorite Montgomery books, but I do 💙 my vintage copies.
Day 3: #7books7days #7days7books #impactful
I love Sarah, Felicity and Felix. ❤️
And Sarah Pollock stars in the wonderful series “Avonlea”.
I am filled with #gratitude for having a day to treat myself. I took myself on a date for tea with the tagged book, and tonight I'll be supporting some local theatre. I love my husband, love my friends, love my job, but I am also so happy to spend time in my own company. #SelfImprovementSept
Rearranging books (and then staring at them wondering if I like them that way) makes me happy. Here's my rearranged bookcase from yesterday. Only 3 more books on it, but I had to move some on every shelf to make them fit. The stack on the floor is my to-read-next pile.
I read this between June 9 & 19th and rated it 4 ⭐️ on Good Reads. When I was younger I had read both the Anne & Emily books but nothing else by Montgomery. I think it‘s a shame that her Anne books are the most famous because she does have a way of writing about childhood.
November #30 is the birthday of L.M Montgomery and the wedding anniversary of the "real" Betsy and Joe, Maud and Delos Lovelace. Two of my very favorite authors. ? #??#emojinov #novemberbythenumbers
31 audiobooks for $112.45! Thank you, Audible!
#ListensYoullLoveSale
#TheSummerListeningSale
#AudibleSale #audiobook
Not my favourite, but worth a read if you like Montgomery. #girlinthetitle #readjanuary @RealLifeReading
I definitely have a lot of books with orange spines (hello, Penguins) but it was trickier finding #OrangeCovers. #PhotoADayNov16