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From @BarbaraJean

Let's have a #KindredSpiritsChristmas! Here's the schedule for December's story-a-day #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead. A couple years ago, we read L.M. Montgomery's holiday stories together in December, and I loved it so much I want to do it again. Let's enjoy these cozy stories and chat about them as we go! Let her know if you want to join.

BarbaraJean Thank you for reposting! 1w
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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @BarbaraJean
Let‘s have a #KindredSpiritsChristmas! Here‘s the schedule for December‘s story-a-day #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! A couple of years ago we read L M Montgomery‘s holiday stories together in December and I loved it so much I want to do it again. Let‘s enjoy these cosy stories and chat about them as we go. Some sources for where to find the stories are in the comments of the original post.

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BarbaraJean
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Let‘s have a #KindredSpiritsChristmas! Here‘s the schedule for December‘s story-a-day #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead. A couple years ago, we read L.M. Montgomery‘s holiday stories together in December, and I loved it so much I want to do it again. Let‘s enjoy these cozy stories and chat about them as we go! Some sources for where to find the stories are posted in the comments. Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

BarbaraJean This list is pulled together from several sources (I found a few more Christmas stories since last time!), so unfortunately not all the stories are available in one collection. Here are some options for where to find them. Use whatever works for you!

The tagged collection (ed. by Rea Wilmshurst) has 16 stories, and there are several LMM Christmas story collections and individual stories available on Hoopla (both audio & ebook). (More below ⬇)
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BarbaraJean Serial Reader has an LMM Christmas Stories collection with 13 stories. Online options are another good source: Project Gutenberg, fadedpage.com, online-literature.com, fullreads.com, etc. I‘ve also added in a Christmas novella by LMM that I came across this year while poking around on Hoopla: “A Merryvale Christmas.” The Hoopla audiobook is the only place I‘ve found it! I‘ve divided up its chapters over three days (15-18 minutes per day). 1w
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Daisey @jewright Any chance you want to join in for this one? 1w
sblbooks Sure, I'd love to! 1w
jewright @Daisey Is it a separate book? 1w
BarbaraJean @sblbooks Wonderful! I‘ll add you to the tag list! 1w
BarbaraJean @jewright Most of the stories are in the tagged collection, but I‘ve included a few more that I found on Hoopla and from other online sources. 1w
Prairiegirl_reading I‘m in. I loved doing this and I missed it last year 😊 1w
quietjenn I'll try to participate at least a bit! 1w
julieclair This will be so much fun! 1w
lauraisntwilder I'm in! I ordered a copy of Christmas with Anne yesterday. 😊🎄 1w
BarbaraJean @Prairiegirl_reading I missed doing this last year, too! Glad to have you reading along! @quietjenn I‘ll add you to the tag list—feel free to drop in as you are able! @lauraisntwilder @julieclair Yay!!🎄👒🎄 1w
TheAromaofBooks Yay thank you!! I think I have most of these and I'm looking forward to rereading them!!! 1w
Daisey @jewright Did you read her comments at the very top? I haven‘t looked all of them up yet this year, but some are on Serial Reader and some can be found online. 1w
AvidReader25 Aww what a lovely idea! 1w
rubyslippersreads What a lovely idea! I own the tagged book, plus I know there are a lot of LMM stories at fadedpage.com 1w
BarbaraJean @AvidReader25 🤗 Thank you! Shall I add you to the tag list? @rubyslippersreads Yes, fadedpage is a great resource and I‘ve found several of these there! Would you like me to add you to the tag list? 1w
rubyslippersreads @BarbaraJean Yes, please add me. 🎄 7d
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads Will do! 🎉🎄 7d
AvidReader25 Yes! I double checked and I own her Christmas collection on kindle. 3d
BarbaraJean @AvidReader25 Yay! I look forward to having you reading along! 1d
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The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery
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Repost for @BarbaraJean
For those following along with the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReRead or #LMMJounals, in November we‘re starting Vol 3 of the Complete Journals and also reading The Golden Road.
Then in December we‘ll read LMM‘s Christmas stories. @BarbaraJean will assemble a #KindredSpiritsChristmas story-a-day schedule for reading these cosy holidays stories together. All are welcome. If you‘d like to join in for December let her know.

BarbaraJean Thanks for the re-post! 3w
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The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery
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For those following along with #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread or #LMMJournals, in November we‘re starting Vol. 3 of the Complete Journals and also reading The Golden Road.

Then in December we‘ll read LMM‘s Christmas stories! I‘ll assemble a #KindredSpiritsChristmas story-a-day schedule for us to read these cozy holiday stories together. All are welcome—if you‘d like to join in just for December, let me know and I‘ll add you to the tag list!

Seabreeze_Reader Enjoy your reading. 🙂Unfortunately I won't have time in my schedule to join in. 3w
BarbaraJean @Seabreeze_Reader Thank you! Maybe we‘ll catch you another time 😊 3w
TheAromaofBooks I actually read the “Haunted“ short story this week! Still plowing my way through Seven Gables 😅 My copy of the journals should be here this weekend. I'm looking forward/also somewhat apprehensive to read about LMM's early marriage years and leaving PEI. Are the Christmas stories going to a specific book of collected stories, or just random ones from here and there? 3w
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BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Seven Gables turned out to be quite a slog! 😬 I‘ll see how this volume of the journals feels—I‘m a bit apprehensive as well! There are more of LMM‘s books to break things up with at this point, though, and I‘m going to go through the notes and jot down adjacent titles to work into the schedule also. The Christmas stories are random—I have a list compiled from a few different Christmas collections (minus that weird Red Room one!) 3w
Roary47 The golden road looks enchanting. I‘m going to read the first book really quick to be on track. 🥰 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yeah, The Red Room, randomly depressing and not remotely Christmasy haha That story was a disappointment! 😂 3w
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks I actually read the haunted story too! I‘m so proud of us! 😀 3w
julieclair I will skip the journals, but join in for The Golden Road. And December sounds delightful! 3w
BarbaraJean @Roary47 Yay! Glad to have you join in, and I hope you enjoy both books! 😊 3w
BarbaraJean @julieclair Looking forward to reading Golden Road and Christmas stories with you! And good job reading the ghost story—LMM loved ghost stories, but it sounds like it‘s not in any of our wheelhouses, so good job to all of us! 3w
Daisey I‘d like to try to join in for the Christmas stories. Please add me to that list. 3w
BarbaraJean @Daisey Will do! Glad to have you along for the Christmas stories! 3w
CogsOfEncouragement Christmas story-a-day sounds delightful, please count me in. 1w
BarbaraJean @CogsOfEncouragement I've added you to the tag list! Glad to have you along! 1w
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DivineDiana
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Pickpick

Still wrapping up December reviews. This was a collection of old fashioned short stories. Each one was uplifting and celebrated a time when it was most exciting to go to a “taffy pull”! Just the kind of warmth that I needed. #blameitonlitsy #kindredspiritschristmas

BarbaraJean Thank you for joining the buddy read! This was such a great Christmas comfort read. ☺️ 2y
DivineDiana @BarbaraJean It really was! Happy New Year! ❤️ 2y
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kwmg40
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I finished reading these stories for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead.
#KindredSpiritsChristmas @BarbaraJean

They were very enjoyable. The themes were somewhat repetitive, but who doesn't like stories about families reconciling and people helping the less fortunate at this time of the year?

#WinterReadathon @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

kwmg40 Here in Ontario, we're being hit hard with a winter storm. My own family members are all safe and cozy and only suffered a few hours' power outage. However, I felt for the train passengers who were stranded on a train with no food or water for 18 hours. I wished there had been an Aunt Cyrilla with a big Christmas basket to give them some joy! 2y
DieAReader 🥶❄️🎄🥳Great job! Stay warm🔥 2y
Andrew65 Well done 🎄🎄🎄 Stay tucked in reading at home. Seen pictures on the Internet, looks absolutely awful. 🥶🥶🥶 2y
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BarbaraJean Thanks for joining in the buddy read! I feel for those train passengers, too—what a parallel to Aunt Cyrilla! And stranded passengers strikes a chord for me this year. I‘m in Southern California, so no winter snow for us, but my dad flew to Indiana with my niece & her husband to spend Christmas with my sister‘s family, and they got stuck at the Cincinnati airport overnight because the roads were closed between there and my sister‘s house. 🥶 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
kwmg40 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks Thanks for the encouragement! Things are much better now, weather-wise. I hope that's also the case for those in other stricken areas.
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kwmg40 @BarbaraJean Sorry to hear that your family was also affected from the storm. The son of a good friend of mine missed coming home for Christmas because the trains were cancelled, but at least he didn't get caught on one of the ones that were stuck for almost a full day. 2y
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Daisey
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#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 The Reader
📖/🎧 Christmas with Anne #KindredSpiritsChristmas
🎧 The Eyes of the Forest

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation
📖 Blaming

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & start whatever else catches my attention, probably some Christmas stories.

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BarbaraJean
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Surely it can‘t be the same Josie Pye!

#KindredSpiritsChristmas - “Ida‘s New Year Cake” - 12/17/22

I have to say, a fruitcake would not be such an attraction for me as to invite a whole boardinghouse over to make merry, but this story did make it sound enticing. And again, such a sweet gesture of kindness at the holidays… with a reminder to keep that kindness throughout the year. 💜
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

LeahBergen Surely there is only one Josie Pye. 😉 2y
AnneCecilie I noticed that too. It must be Anne‘s friend. 2y
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen Even one is really too many. 😏 2y
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quietjenn @rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen even a fictional world can't take more than one. 2y
AnnR I thought this was a well rounded story but I agree with all the comments about the fruitcake. Not remotely in the realm of any holiday food I'd look forward to eating. 2y
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads @quietjenn 😂😂Agreed!! @LeahBergen @AnneCecilie Surely it can‘t be the same Josie, because the Josie we know would certainly never stoop to taking a clerk job in a bookstore! 2y
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Daisey
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I finished the L.M. Montgomery holiday stories today. Along with several at Christmas, there was a Thanksgiving story and a few set at the New Year. Most were in this collection along with a few more. I read almost all of them in print and listened to all of this collection on audio as well. Many express the same themes, but I enjoyed each of them in their own way.

#KindredStoriesBuddyRead #KindredSpiritsChristmas #ShortStories #Christmas

BarbaraJean Thanks for joining in! These were such cozy reads for this time of year! 2y
Daisey @BarbaraJean Thanks for hosting! They were a perfect way to get into the holiday spirit this year. 2y
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