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How do you see Emily‘s writing ambitions manifest & grow throughout Emily Climbs?
Where do you see similarities between Emily & LMM?
What do you think of the choice Emily makes at the end? Do you agree with her decision or were you disappointed? What does the decision say about her sense of self? About her writing ambitions?
Are there any other scenes, themes, quotes, or characters you‘d like to discuss?
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Emily‘s relationships with her family naturally change here, and the New Moon family members fade a bit into the background. Still, her family continues to (or tries to!) influence her choices.
Where do you see that family influence most strongly in this book?
How are Emily‘s choices shaped by her family—and where do you see her pushing back on that influence as she matures?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread My least-favorite characters here are Dean and Aunt Ruth—for very different reasons.
What do you make of Emily‘s relationship with Dean here? Do you see any redeeming qualities in Dean‘s friendship and influence in Emily‘s life—or is it all just creepy groomer vibes for you?
What (if any) redeeming qualities do you see in Aunt Ruth? For you, does this mitigate the way she treats Emily for most of the novel?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMRereads - Discussion Qs for Emily Climbs coming in very late in the day!
How do Emily‘s friendships with Ilse, Teddy, and Perry change during their years in Shrewsbury? Thinking about LMM‘s other work, do you see parallels or contrasts between Emily & Anne in their changing friendships from childhood?
What do you see as the significance of Emily‘s “second sight”? Do you see connections with her imagination? ⤵️
My #FallingForFallSwap package is finally on its way east!! And I received my package several days ago and just have never gotten around to posting about it, so I apologize!!
Thank you so much for hosting @Avanders @Chrissyreadit !!!
so-soNot quite the thoughtless diversion I first took it for, which actually makes sense, because the sharply satirical Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is the whole reason I picked up another work by Stephen Leacock.
I'll admit some of these entries - it's a collection of ten short stories - read a little goofier than others, but once you realize it's as much a commentary on different types of classic stories as it is a collection of individual 1/?
I really enjoyed this. At first it seemed like the story of a young girl growing up on a ranch, with an almost idyllic life, but the detail about Ernestine‘s future revealed that the story was going to get darker. This is my first Ethel Wilson, but won‘t be my last.
Does anyone else think that Hetty would be able to get herself out of trouble in Austria, no matter how ominous the last lines? 😏
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“Emily did not sleep—did not want to sleep. It was too dear a night to go to sleep, she felt. She wanted to lie awake for the pleasure of it and think over a thousand things.
Emily always looked back to that night spent under the stars as a sort of milestone. Everything in it and of it ministered to her. It filled her with its beauty, which she must later give to the world…”
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pickA low pick. I had trouble concentrating on this, which is probably a me problem. Ondaatje's writing is gorgeous. This is just a very quiet book. I was going to rewatch the movie once done reading it for the first time but the movie is almost 3 hours long!!
Glad I read it but I am unsure how much will stick with be beyond the bomb dismantling.
My new (old?) definition of a comfort read: a book which “may bring some passing amusement...or some brief respite when the sadness of the heart or the sufferings of the body forbid the perusal of worthier things.“
