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Rilla of Ingleside (Special Collector's) | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Happy Sunday! These are a couple of books I‘m very much looking forward to for May.

I‘m going to listen to Rilla on audio since I‘ve yet to start, and after yesterday‘s posts compare passages to my print copy.

As for Lamentation, I read most of Heartstone in ebook, and I may have to do the same for this one so I can fit pages in when and where I can without carrying this hardback around.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread #ShardlakeBR

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BarbaraJean That classic Bantam paperback! Such nostalgia (even though I never liked the cover of this one 😂) 3h

dabbe All my Shardlakes are in ebook form. They'd be way to heavy to cart around! 🤣😍🤣 3h

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BarbaraJean

Rilla of Ingleside: A Virago Modern Classic | L. M. Montgomery

I found something very puzzling while reading Rilla this week. I often switch between print and ebook when I have both and one is more convenient. I was reading the ebook over lunch and was mid-chapter when I switched back to print. In scanning through to find my place, I discovered sections in the ebook that aren‘t in the print version. I checked it against both print copies I have—both are missing the highlighted passages above. What?!? ⤵️

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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) I‘m curious about others‘ copies—what version are you reading and what do these sections look like in your copy? This is around the middle of “Moonlit Mirth” (Chapter 3). I‘m reading an ebook version called “The Anne Stories” from Timeless Reads—a collection of most of LMM‘s books & short stories. My print copies are the Tundra edition with the Elly MacKay cover, and my old faithful Bantam paperback. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread 1d

CSeydel How odd! Yes, my 1987 edition is missing those passages (but you know that, you have the same one lol) 1d

CSeydel I wonder why 1d

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BarbaraJean @CSeydel I'm so curious about why! I know there are variations in the text in different versions of Windy Poplars (UK vs. US/Canadian), but I didn't think there were different versions of the text of Rilla. I just checked Wikipedia and found the below ⬇ 1d

BarbaraJean “At some point after Montgomery's death in 1942, publishers quietly trimmed Rilla of Ingleside of a few thousand words, removing among other things passages containing historically accurate but now offensive anti-German sentiment. The trimmed version was the only available “in print“ version for decades...“

Now I kind of want to read print and ebook side by side for comparison!! 1d

CSeydel Oh how interesting! But these passages you highlighted aren‘t anti-German - I guess like some editor just decided they were unnecessarily adding length 1d

BarbaraJean @CSeydel The “among other things“ description covers their trimming stuff they thought was unnecessary, I guess! The first one especially feels very abrupt to me, seeing both versions side by side. I'm just reading the ebook version now, to make sure I get the full text--and I kind of want to pull out my paperback to check it every time I come across something anti-German! 24h

TheAromaofBooks That is so crazy! I have two editions: a later Bantam edition (1998) that is missing the passages. However, last time we read through the series I purchased the Aladdin paperbacks with the pretty covers as my Bantam copies are getting rather worn. And the Aladdin edition has the passages! It was published in 2015. I was already planning to read the Aladdin version this time, and now I definitely will. How crazy that it was edited after her death! 9h

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BarbaraJean

Rilla of Ingleside: A Virago Modern Classic | L. M. Montgomery

This is how I feel about Irene Howard.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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Tamra 😂 21h

TheAromaofBooks For REAL 😂 9h

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BarbaraJean

Rilla of Ingleside: A Virago Modern Classic | L. M. Montgomery

A little #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead check-in for Rilla of Ingleside:

How‘s your reading going so far?
What has caught your attention in the first half of the book?
What are you enjoying (or not enjoying) in Rilla of Ingleside?

#LMMReread

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BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder @JenlovesJT47 Not sure if you were joining in for this one—let me know if you want to be tagged! 1d

CSeydel Oh shoot I forgot to start this one - am I going to be okay reading it as a stand-alone? I don‘t think I read Rainbow Valley either 1d

BarbaraJean @CSeydel I think this one works really well as a standalone. It does refer back to some things in Rainbow Valley, but not key plot points. Rainbow Valley focuses on the older kids rather than Rilla—it‘s kind of like she‘s a whole new character! And Anne is completely in the background. (edited) 1d

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CSeydel Yay! I‘ll start it today 1d

Daisey I haven‘t started yet; May snuck up on me. I downloaded the audio and will probably listen to these chapters tomorrow. 23h

lauraisntwilder Oh, yes, sorry, I'm in for this one and Pollyanna! But, I haven't started this yet. 😆 I have the audio though, so I'll get caught up soon. 18h

BarbaraJean @Daisey @lauraisntwilder Yay! I look forward to hearing how you like the audio (and whether those missing passages are in the audio or not!) 3h

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LitsyEvents

Rilla of Ingleside: A Virago Modern Classic | L. M. Montgomery

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Calling all Kindred Spirits! We‘ll be continuing the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead with an #LMMReread of Rilla of Ingleside, then an #LMMAdjacent title: Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (a contemporary of LMM and a fellow author who published with the nefarious L.C. Page Co.).

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BarbaraJean

Rilla of Ingleside: A Virago Modern Classic | L. M. Montgomery

Calling all Kindred Spirits! We‘ll be continuing the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead with an #LMMReread of Rilla of Ingleside, then an #LMMAdjacent title: Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (a contemporary of LMM and a fellow author who published with the nefarious L.C. Page Co.). The schedule is above—all are welcome! Please comment if you‘d like to be tagged for either or both books.

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CogsOfEncouragement I‘ll skip a reread of Rilla, but look forward to reading Pollyanna for the first time. I watched the 1960 movie starring Hayley Mills a couple times as a kid and absolutely loved it. 1w

BarbaraJean @CogsOfEncouragement I‘ve never read Pollyanna, either! I‘m looking forward to my first read, too. 1w

CSeydel I‘ve read Pollyanna, but although I‘ve owned Rilla of Ingleside since the 80s (and kept it through how many moves) — I‘ve actually never read it! Maybe I‘ll join you guys 1w

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Daisey It‘s been so long since I reread Rilla; I‘ll try to fit that one in May! 1w

TheAromaofBooks I am definitely in for rereading both of these. Rilla is possibly my favorite LMM book. (Okay, maybe not; it's actually kind of impossible to choose 😂) I love Pollyanna as well, although in some ways the Hayley Mills version ruined the book for me because it's so hard to see the characters as anything other than the way they were cast in that book, despite them not being completely accurate. 😆 1w

rubyslippersreads I‘d be glad if you‘d tag me for Pollyanna. 😄 1w

rubyslippersreads @TheAromaofBooks I ❤️ the Hayley Mills movie, though. 1w

julieclair Please tag me for Pollyanna. Can‘t believe I‘ve never read it! 7d

TheAromaofBooks @rubyslippersreads - I love the movie, too - but usually I can separate movie/book when they aren't particularly alike and just have them be two different stories in my mind. But for some reason the individuals from that movie INSIST on being the imagined book-characters in my mind 😂 It's not as bad in the first book, but in later books Pollyanna and Jimmy get married, and trying to reconcile Haley marrying Kevin Corcoran has been a struggle 😆 6d

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BarbaraJean

Rilla of Ingleside | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Here's the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead schedule for the next six weeks, with #LMMJournals, #LMMReread and #LMMAdjacent choices. We'll read the last section of Volume 4 of LMM's Complete Journals over the next two weeks, then Rilla of Ingleside, then Pollyanna.

I've tagged the schedule/announcements list for the group, but all are welcome. If you'd like to be tagged for any/all of the above, please comment!

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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm still plowing through The Last of the Mohicans!! I'm really looking forward to rereading Rilla, and Pollyanna with the group!! 3w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I‘m interested to hear what you think once the plowing is done! I don‘t regret reading it, but it was disappointing. I‘m glad to be back into the journals this week and looking forward to the next several picks! 3w

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kwmg40

Rainbow Valley | L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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Another charming installment in the Anne of Green Gables series. This one featured a few of Anne's children but was mostly about a family they befriend.

#gottacatchemall(Cottonee:friends stick together)
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread @BarbaraJean

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BarbaraJean

Rainbow Valley | L. M. Montgomery

LMM dedicates Rainbow Valley to three young men who were killed in WWI, and the ending of the novel, with its references to the Piper, foreshadows the war to come. Did you notice anything else in the book that echoes or explores these bookend references to the war?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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lauraisntwilder Ellen West seems pretty convinced there's something rotten in the state of Germany. 2mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder And she wasn't wrong! I loved seeing LMM's interest in politics come out in that way. I felt like the Piper stuff was a little heavy-handed, but I liked that little foreshadowing with Ellen. 2mo

kwmg40 There were definitely instances of foreshadowing -- references to the politics but also suggestions that the world will change and the current times will be gone forever. 1mo

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 Yes! I think that‘s what I had a hard time putting my finger on. There‘s a whole mood of “all this is about to change.” It makes the childhood games and antics that much more nostalgic. 1mo

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BarbaraJean

Rainbow Valley | L. M. Montgomery

It was heartbreaking to read the above in LMM‘s journals and to see LMM‘s loss of her cousin and dear friend overshadowing the publication of Rainbow Valley. But I loved hearing the source for both of these Rainbow Valley moments.

What are some of your favorite parts of Rainbow Valley? Favorite episodes or quotes?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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JenlovesJT47 I can‘t wait to actually sit down and read her journals. Hoping to get to it this week. 💚 She was such an interesting person. 2mo

CogsOfEncouragement Throughout the book, it was interesting to me how gossip in the small community played such a role in nearly everything. Sometimes the gossip caused great harm, and sometimes it was the gossip of others that prompted someone to act to everyone's betterment. 2mo

BarbaraJean @JenlovesJT47 I hope you end up being able to get to them—I‘ve really loved reading the journals! 2mo

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BarbaraJean @CogsOfEncouragement I got so mad at the gossips! Yes, there were times the Meredith kids (AND the Blythes, if we‘re being fair—which the gossips were not) really got up to mischief—like the pig-riding 😂 But it seemed like the things that set off the worst gossip were often innocent mistakes (like cleaning the house on Sunday!) or situations the kids should/would never have been in—if a responsible adult had provided some guidance and care. 2mo

BarbaraJean In spite of how much John Meredith (as a father) frustrated me, I really enjoyed the Rosemary + John love story. I was rooting for the kids to have her in their life. I loved her friendship with Faith, and how Una finally brought everything together so sweetly & selflessly. I also loved basically all of the scenes that centered on Faith. Her explanation in front of the church, her letter to the Journal, and the pig-riding!! ⤵️ 2mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) And I loved Faith‘s response to seeing that condescending minister catch his coat-tails on fire, vindicating poor Adam just a little bit! 2mo

kwmg40 I enjoyed the antics of the Meredith kids, and seeing how their “bad behaviour“ usually stemmed from childish impulsiveness, kindheartedness or good intentions. 1mo

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 I really loved those kids! It bothered me that the gossips labeled them as such “bad” kids, because they all had such good intentions. 1mo

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