Well, at least it was short. 🤷♀️
Well, at least it was short. 🤷♀️
This was a light and enjoyable listen for a long rambling walk today, but I can definitely see why it‘s a lesser known book of Montgomery‘s. It was just too sweet and simplistic. I wonder how she decided to write from Eric‘s perspective and how it would have been different from Kilmeny‘s. I had never read it before, so I was glad to finally make time for it.
#audiobook #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead Discussion Part 4
Kilmeny is a short little novel, and everything wraps up quite neatly. Are there aspects of the story you‘d like to have seen developed a bit further? If so, where would you have liked to see the story deepened or expanded?
What are your overall thoughts on Kilmeny of the Orchard? Anything else you‘d like to discuss?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead Discussion Part 3
There are some problematic elements in the story, both in its portrayal of Neil Gordon and of Kilmeny‘s disability. Do we just chalk these up to “an earlier time,” or is there more to be said here?
The story seems to communicate that there are inherited traits and consequences of your heritage that just can‘t be escaped. Do you agree with this idea at all?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead Discussion Part 2
There are fairy-tale tropes throughout the story, with Kilmeny as the innocent young girl rescued by the romantic hero. Does the fairy-tale feel enhance or diminish the story for you?
How did you feel about the romance between Eric and Kilmeny? Endearing and sweet? Over-idealized? A little problematic?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Kilmeny of the Orchard Discussion Part 1
Unlike L. M. Montgomery‘s other novels, Kilmeny is told from the perspective of the male lead. How did this impact your experience of the story?
How would the story be different if it were narrated from Kilmeny‘s perspective?
#BookReport
Finished both of the buddy reads; tagged #KinderedSporitsBuddyRead and North and South #PemberLittens
I finished Moon Witch, Spider King and I read Mofongo.
I‘m currently reading Summer
This is an L.M. Montgomery I‘d never read before, and while I enjoyed it, it‘s clear why it‘s not one of the ones everyone raves about. It‘s a sweet old-fashioned love story, but a bit overly simplistic and the ending wraps things up a little too neatly. Still, it was a nice, light, escapist read!
Our #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead discussion for this one will be next weekend. 😊🌳🎻 I‘ll post questions late on Saturday, April 30.
“…old George Wright is having the time of his life. His wife has gone to Charlottetown to visit her sister and he is his own boss for the first time since he was married, forty years ago. He‘s on a regular orgy, Aleck says. He smokes in the parlor and sits up till eleven o‘clock reading dime novels.”
Smoking in the parlor and reading dime novels = orgy😂
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#WeeklyForecast
Continue with the buddy reads; the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and with the #PemberLittens both The Other Bennett Sister and North and South.
Finish Troubled Blood and hopefully get a good start on Moon Witch, Spider King.
I have the next week off work, Easter vacation, and hope to get in a lot of reading.
My intention was to read this #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead a chapter a day, but it's so short that I read it in just a couple of days after all. This was a reread for me. It's not my favorite Montgomery as it's a little too... tidy, I guess? This is one of her earliest books and it rather shows in its simplicity. And I'm always a little uncomfortable with stories where a girl ends up marrying literally the first man she's ever met. Still, this is a ⬇
#BookReport
I continued with the buddy reads; the tagged #KinderedSpiritsBuddyRead and both The Other Bennett Sister and North and South #PemberLittens
I finished Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
I read Elena Knows, Love in the Big City and Kvar dag skal vi vere så modige.
I DNF‘ed Heaven, at least for now.
And I‘ve just started Troubled Blood (not pictured).
Friday night reads. And yes, those ARE dog toes on my desk. #JohnnyBergen
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#PersephoneClub
#WeeklyForecast
Continue the buddy reads. The tagged with #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and both North and South and The Other Bennett Sister with #PemberLittens
Continue Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
And also want to read as many as these as possible: Elena Knows, Love in the Big City, Kvar dag skal vi verre så modige and Heaven.
Hello #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead friends! I thought I‘d post the schedule for the rest of the year, along with a reminder that we‘re reading Kilmeny of the Orchard in April. It‘s a short one (144 pages / 19 chapters), so you‘ve got plenty of time to savor it before the discussion on April 30.
All are welcome—if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be, for this book or other months ahead, please let me know!
#BookReport
Finished Rage Becomes Her #SheSaid. Continued The Other Bennett Sister and North and South, both with #PemberLittens. Started the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
Read Cards on the Table and Sorrow and Bliss
Currently reading Bibliophile: Diverse Spines and The Unheard.
#WeeklyForecast
Finish Rage Becomes Her #SheSaid. Continue with the #PemerLittens both The Other Bennett Sister and North and South. Start the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
Continue Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
Read Cards on the Table and Sorrow and Bliss. Start The Unheard.
An old favorite that I have wanted to reread for a long time, it‘s has been on my TBR for ages. It‘s a fairly predictable love story, but it is written with Montgomery‘s gentle style. Kilmeny is not Anne or Emily, But a rather traditional figure who waits to be rescued by the man she loves. I read this when I 12 and thought it was magical. Now, not so much but still a lovely trip down memory lane. #AxeTheStacks
But the most idyllic hours of Eric's wooing were spent in the old orchard; the garden end of it was now a wilderness of roses-roses red as the heart of a sunset, roses pink as the early flush of dawn, roses white as the snows on mountain peaks, roses full blown, and roses in buds that were sweeter than anything on earth except Kilmeny's face.
Ummm...no. I count Anne of Green Gables as among my all-time favorites. I really like the Emily series, too. This is trite, vapid crap that Anne would have written when she was 11 and fantasizing about being Cordelia. Eric and Kilmeny are bland stereotypes. It would have been a two-star blah read from an author I thought fondly of, but then it has to turn all racist and such. Yeah, no thanks.