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Rilla of Ingleside | Lucy Maud Montgomery

#BookFifteenOf2025 and the last in the Anne of Green Gables series!

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BarbaraJean

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

I have this blog where I don't post as often as I'd like. But here are some reflections on a scene from Rilla of Ingleside, with a little Pollyanna thrown in. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead-ers may be interested. Also: it‘s Christian-y. 🙂

https://commonplacehope.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/burning-coals/

#LMMReread #LMMAdjacent

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kwmg40

Rilla of Ingleside | L.M. Montgomery

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The story of Anne's daughter, this novel describes in realistic detail the lives of Canadians during WWI. Despite the heavy themes, this story still has plenty of charm and humour. I especially liked reading about the 1917 federal election as we were going through the 2025 federal election.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread @BarbaraJean
#52bookclub25 (Has a moon on the cover)
#gottacatchemall (Emolga: cute character) @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper I didn't know there were that many books in that series 1w

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BarbaraJean

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

Dog Monday. Every single time. 😭😭😭

#SundayFunday
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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BookmarkTavern Love this series! Thanks for sharing! 1w

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lauraisntwilder

Rilla of Ingleside | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Another catch up post and another reread. I enjoyed this much more than I did the first time, in 2023. I've been reading LM Montgomery's journals with #kindredspiritsbuddyread. They give so much more context. Susan seems to echo LMM's concern over WWI. Also, the Anne books have been better in publication order, rather than chronologically. I still have the same gripes as last time (too little about Avonlea favorites), but oh well.

BarbaraJean It really has been fascinating reading them in publication order! Especially with the journals for context. 3w

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Daisey

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

It‘s been a whirlwind week/weekend, but I made time today to finish my #reread of this wonderful book on audio. I had forgotten just how solemn and sad the entire story is. It is truly a novel of WWI on the Canadian home front with all of the stress and grief that includes. Yet, it also has those signature moments of pure beauty and humor that LMM writes so wonderfully. I loved revisiting this story.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #WWI #audiobook

BarbaraJean

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LitsyEvents

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

repost for @BarbaraJean:

Hello #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead-ers! I‘m looking at a tentative schedule for the next few months:
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders (2 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (2 weeks)
Emily of New Moon (3 weeks)
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (3 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (3 weeks)
Emily Climbs (3 weeks)
“The Lay of the Brown Rosary” & Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4 weeks)

THAT takes us to mid-October

LitsyEvents More info on the original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2863918 4w

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BarbaraJean

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

“Miss Oliver dear, you are all tired out and unstrung—just you go upstairs and lie down and I will bring you up a cup of hot tea and a bite of toast and very soon you will not want to slam doors or swear.“
“Susan, you're a good soul—a very pearl of Susans! But, Susan, it would be such a relief—to say just one soft, low, little tiny d—“

😂 😂 I‘m with Miss Oliver on this one…
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

kwmg40 Me too! 😂 3w

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BarbaraJean

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

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

Is there anything else you‘d like to discuss from Rilla of Ingleside?
Was there anything that bothered or frustrated you about the book?
Do you have any favorite passages or scenes you‘d like to share?

Daisey, lauraisntwilder, CSeydel, TheAromaofBooks

lauraisntwilder This is Rilla's book, I know that, but it still makes me sad how little of Anne and Avonlea we get. At one point, Anne mentions not being able to do anything and almost said, "Go write something!" out loud. There's one, very brief, mention of Diana, and Marilla has died between books with no fanfare. Is Rachel Lynde also dead? And did Davy Keith end up in the war? What happened to all our friends?? 4w

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder I felt that, too. The little comment about Marilla made me SO sad! As you said, it's Rilla's book--and I think it also reflects how relationships changed for LMM as she grew up, got married, and moved away. But no mention of Davy is so puzzling. There is a brief mention of other boys going off to war--children of Anne's childhood and college friends. But no Davy. It's odd. I know LMM was tired of Anne by this point, but still! 3w

BarbaraJean One scene I'd forgotten that REALLY bothered me this time was little Bruce Meredith and the “sacrifice“ he makes about Stripey. I was HORRIFIED. LMM often uses children's mistaken ideas as a way to critique established religion, but I couldn't fathom what narrative purpose there could have been with that scene. I loved Bruce's earlier spot-on take about making the Kaiser into a good man, but the Stripey scene just canceled it all out for me. 3w

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BarbaraJean But then, on the other hand--Dog Monday. 😭 😭 😭 3w

lauraisntwilder Pets had it rough in this one!! Poor Stripey! 😭 3w

kwmg40 I loved the whole Dog Monday storyline. Yes, it was predictable and a real tear-jerker but I totally fell for it.
I also enjoyed the passages about the 1917 election and the conscription issue, partly because we in Canada were going through our own latest federal election while I reading these pages. 3w

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 Dog Monday makes me weep every single time!! 3w

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BarbaraJean

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

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

On this umpteenth re-read for me, what struck me as new (more than just the “new” passages that I discovered had been excised from my old faithful Bantam paperback!!), was seeing so much of LMM‘s WWI experience on the page.

If you‘ve been reading LMM‘s journals, what did you notice in Rilla of Ingleside that echoed LMM‘s thoughts and experiences during WWI?

Daisey, lauraisntwilder, CSeydel, TheAromaofBooks

lauraisntwilder The journals added so much! I've only read this one other time, in 2023, but I enjoyed it more this time. LMM's terror over the war news makes so much sense in a household with so many young men of "fighting age." It must have been therapeutic for her, to give meaning to those awful years. 4w

lauraisntwilder Specifically, I saw Susan as a sort of stand-in for LMM. She puts her faith in Kitchener and studies maps and waits for news. LMM doesn't quite let us see Susan's moments of weakness though, which is one of the main reasons her journals were so important to her. Her own moments were written out, so she made Susan cook and knit. 4w

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder I saw SO many echoes of LMM's WWI entries! There were references to people, places, and battles that I remembered reading & finding tedious in LMM's journals. 😂 I hadn't thought about Susan as an LMM stand-in, but I think you're right! The way the anticipation/dread of the news arriving overshadowed the whole household felt like it was lifted directly from LMM's journals, and Susan really embodied that. 3w

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Daisey I haven‘t been reading the journals, but I definitely got more of the daily WWI experience aspect this time just having more knowledge myself of events mentioned. I had forgotten just how much that was the entire focus of the story. 3w

kwmg40 I really liked how LMM incorporated so many of the details of everyday life during WWI. It seemed more authentic to me than many historical novels I'd read, since this wasn't really historical fiction but a novel written very soon after the actual events. I also learned some things. I hadn't realized that DST began in Canada as a result of WWI! 3w

BarbaraJean @Daisey @kwmg40 Yes, I think one of the big strengths of this novel is how it focuses on the daily experience of WWI on the home front in Canada, and how that daily life was affected by events abroad. I hadn't realized that about DST either! (And I have to admit, I agree with Susan about DST and admire her commitment to continue living on “God's Time“ in every way she could 😆) 3w

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