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Poetry of Lucy Maude Montgomery | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kevin McCabe, Ferns McCabe

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Bklover This is SO BEAUTIFUL!!! 11h

Eggs 💙💜🩷 @Bklover 8h

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this 💜 💫 7h

Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩷💙💜 5h

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bibliothecarivs

The Anne of Green Gables Treasury of Days | Collins, Carolyn

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

Amy is currently working her way through the Anne books so I grabbed this for her when I saw it at at charity shop.

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TheAromaofBooks

Across the Miles | Lucy Maud Montgomery

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 !!!

Avanders 🍂🍁🧡 2w

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TheAromaofBooks

Across the Miles | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Time for my favorite swap of the year!! #FallingForFallSwap 🎉 Check out this post https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2886960 for the sign-up link!!!

As always, thank you for hosting @avanders @chrissyreadit 💕 💕 💕

Chrissyreadit 🎉💛🎉💛🎉💛🎉 2mo

Jjaxn95 @PageTurner1877 !! 🍂🎃 2mo

Avanders 👏🏼👏🏼🍁🍂🧡♥️💛 2mo

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BarbaraJean

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 To 1901 | L. M. Montgomery

What is the happiest Christmas morning you can remember?

This was another lovely story about giving to others on Christmas. So many of these stories have the same exact themes—in today‘s story, noticing someone who is lonely or less-fortunate and bringing them Christmas joy—but I LIKE those themes!

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #KindredSpiritsChristmas

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BarbaraJean Today‘s story is “A Christmas Inspiration,” which is available on Hoopla, and also in the tagged collection. You can read it online here: https://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/1896-1901/2/

Tomorrow we‘ll be reading “The Josephs‘ Christmas,” which is available in the above-noted sources, and online here: https://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/1902-1903/13/

Christmas with Anne: And Other Holiday Stories

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lauraisntwilder The happiest Christmas morning I can remember was when my son was 3 and he got the talking Vanellope (from Wreck-It Ralph) doll he'd asked for. I made pancakes and made small ones for the doll and he thought it was to coolest thing ever. ❤️ This was a sweet story. I liked that the "needy" person wasn't necessarily poor 9mo

CogsOfEncouragement Heartwarming, with the hope they can keep up the goodwill all year. 9mo

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TheAromaofBooks My mom loves Christmas so I have loads of happy Christmas memories. But one of my favorites was a few years ago when the family had planned to get together 12/26 instead of 12/25, so a rare Christmas where the husband and I were going to be home alone for the holiday - and it SNOWED, like several inches of snow, which never happens here on Christmas and was supposed to be rain but instead it was just so perfect and fluffy!!! 9mo

BarbaraJean One of my favorite Christmases was when I was living in South Africa & didn't return to the US at Christmas. My roommate & I invited two friends for a Christmas Eve sleepover—we decorated Christmas cookies by candlelight because of a power out. Then we had what we called “Magnificent & Wondrous Christmas Breakfast“! @lauraisntwilder Aw, I love the idea of little pancakes for the doll!! @TheAromaofBooks An unexpected white Christmas—what a delight! 9mo

TheAromaofBooks Your favorite Christmas sounds exactly like one of LMM's stories! 😂 9mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks 😂 More than you know… we took a bunch of Christmas gifts to our friends out in the township later that day! And the cat would NOT come down from the huge tree in front of the house… another Christmas mishap 😂 There were no sleigh rides or sledding, however 😁 (edited) 9mo

AvidReader25 Your Christmas in South Africa sounds lovely! I do love these LMM themes too. 💙 I remember having Christmas in a hotel room one year with my family when we were traveling to Boston. There was something sweet about realizing Christmas was Christmas no matter where you were because of who you were with. 9mo

BarbaraJean @AvidReader25 Aw, yes—somehow those out-of-the-usual Christmases help us to focus on what‘s really important about the holiday. Which is funny to realize, because I‘m big on keeping up traditions! 9mo

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TheAromaofBooks

Across the Miles | Lucy Maud Montgomery

@Scochrane26 - I'm your #JolabokaflodSwap match this year!!! I mailed your package earlier this week, but in typical Sarah-Style did not actually notate on the envelope anywhere that it was a Litsy package or who it was from 😂 So be on the lookout for a blue padded envelope from Ohio - that's your Swap gift!!! Merry Christmas!!

@MaleficentBookDragon thanks so much for hosting - I love this simple swap!!

dabbe ❣️🎄❣️ 9mo

AnnCrystal 😍🎄🤩💝. 9mo

Scochrane26 Thanks for letting me know, Sarah! 9mo

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TheAromaofBooks

Across the Miles | Lucy Maud Montgomery

@BookmarkTavern - I'm your match for the #StuffedStockingSwap !!! I finally got your package in the mail yesterday and USPS says it should be there Friday!! I hope you love it!! 😁

@Avanders thanks so much for hosting this fun swap every year!!!

Avanders 👏🏼👏🏼🎄☃️❤️😘 10mo

BookmarkTavern Oh I am so excited! 💖💖💖 10mo

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BarbaraJean

The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery

LMM called The Story Girl “my own favourite among my books” and “the best piece of work I have yet done.” Of writing it, she said: “I was sorry to finish it. Never…had I laid down my pen and taken farewell of my characters with more regret…I have written it from sheer love of it.”
Her comments above about The Golden Road were quite different.
What are your feelings about each book?
Do you think the difference LMM felt is apparent in her writing?

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BarbaraJean #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread Golden Road Discussion 3/3 10mo

Roary47 I think she genuinely loved these characters, and to feel rushed in writing characters I grew to love too from the attention she paid to their development I would have hated it too. These characters I grew to love more than her other books and I am sad there was not more. I think if she did have the time that she wanted she could have made more of an epilogue to finalize their stories than just predictions. 10mo

julieclair It makes me sad to think she did not enjoy writing this book. But it also amazes me that even so, she was able to create such a feeling of warmth among her characters, that radiates out to us, the readers. 10mo

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TheAromaofBooks I don't feel like The Golden Road is a weaker book than The Story Girl - to me, it picks up right where the first book left off. Like @julieclair and @Roary47 I'm amazed at how her inner turmoil and stress doesn't feel reflected in the writing, which is warm and happy. 10mo

lauraisntwilder @julieclair I completely agree! 10mo

kwmg40 Her comment about Chester suggests she was a typical overworked and tired mom. I can believe that the writing process was arduous with an infant around! 10mo

BarbaraJean @Roary47 Definitely! In some ways, I wish there had been a reunion-type scene, where they all gather at the King farm again and reminisce about the old days and we get to see where they are now and how they are as adults, both as a group and as individuals. But then again, I also like the way there are just hints so that the reader can imagine for themselves. 10mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @julieclair I didn‘t see this as weaker than SG, either—actually, I think I like this one better because it builds on the foundation LMM had already set up with these characters in SG. The Story Girl‘s stories felt a little like filler in the first book, and “Our Magazine” does a little of that here, but all the little sarcastic side comments really bring the magazine excerpts to life and make them part of the story! 10mo

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 Yes, her journal comments really show her struggling to figure out how to continue her work while balancing it with her new life as a wife and mother! Like others have said, it‘s amazing to me how she was able to deepen these characters and their stories—in such a warm, nostalgic way—while she was having to steal moments here and there to write, feeling such pressure and “little pleasure in writing” because of it. (edited) 10mo

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CogsOfEncouragement

Among the Shadows | L. M. Montgomery

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Short stories from the author of Anne of Green Gables, many with a spooky theme. I hunted this down a couple years ago but finally read it now. Took my time and read it throughout the month. I really enjoyed these tales.

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CogsOfEncouragement

Among the Shadows | L. M. Montgomery

1. Yes, some to hand out, some to donate to the Harvest Festival at church, and treats for my big kids who don‘t trick or treat anymore. #Two4Tuesday

2. spooky short stories

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