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rubyslippersreads
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@Eggs beat me to #BetsyTacy 😁 so here‘s another immortal friendship. 🌈

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BookmarkTavern Oh yes an absolutely perfect choice! Thanks for sharing! 3w
Eggs Yes! I watched this with my granddaughter 2 days ago! 3w
MemoirsForMe Just heard Lorna Luft will be debuting new Wizard of Oz merch on QVC Dec. 6th: There‘s No Place Like Home collection. Fyi! 🌈👠 6d
rubyslippersreads @MemoirsForMe I‘ll have to check that out. 😁 5d
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Eggs
Betsy-Tacy and Tib | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Betsy, Tacy and Tib lived in an era without phones, cars, TVs, and convenience. They relied upon nature and imagination and loyalty to enrich their friendship. 💞

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@BookmarkTavern

Play? @Dilara @RosePressedPages @Leftcoastzen @monalyisha

BookmarkTavern That sounds really lovely! Thanks for posting! 3w
monalyisha Oh! I‘m not sure about my favorite but I love the characters and their bond(s) in the following… 3w
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monalyisha Noticing, too, that we‘ve both selected books with younger protagonists. Such a powerful time for formative friendships! 3w
Dilara Hmm. That's tricky. I trawled through my LT catalogue and decided on the 3 friends from The Old Geezers graphic series. Maybe? They're old and disgraceful but they have each others' backs and they're always up to something.
Thank you for tagging me!
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rubyslippersreads The perfect choice! 3w
Eggs @BookmarkTavern YW❣️ 3w
Eggs @monalyisha Agree, formative and some unforgettable 🧡 3w
Eggs @Dilara I approve (said the geezer) 3w
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Andrea313
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Finally catching up to reflect on the #BetsyTacyConvention! *Seven years* after committing to do the thing and being thwarted by the pandemic, it was a joy to finally make it happen. 200 fans converged on Deep Valley to see the houses, walk through Emily's slough, visit Lincoln Park, and connect with new and old friends. I'm so grateful and so tired and most of all, so thankful for Maud's writing and the gift of these beautiful stories. ❤️

Ruthiella What a lovely edition! 🤩 1mo
LeahBergen That edition of Emily is so awesome! 🥰 1mo
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace
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A couple of weeks ago Mr. Crinoline was working in Mankato. I have been to see the Betsy and Tacy houses a few years ago with a friend, he had never been. And while the Betsy Tacy Society wasn't open, he did walk around and snaped some pictures. Now every time I mention Betsy/Tacy he says 'you mean Maud and Bick?' 🏡

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Andrea313
Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Andrea313
Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace
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MemoirsForMe 😍😍😍 Did you see this @rubyslippersreads ? 2mo
LeahBergen Oh, it looks nice in autumn! 2mo
rubyslippersreads I‘ve made the pilgrimage to the #BetsyTacy houses. 😊 (edited) 2mo
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Andrea313
Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Last call to register for the #BetsyTacyConvention2025! We're so excited to have keynote speaker Mara Wilson, lifelong BT fan, join us in Deep Valley! We'll also be welcoming incredible authors Mitali Perkins and Danny Lavery as fellow keynotes. Registration closes soon; link in comments! #BetsyTacy #MaudHartLovelace #DeepValley #BetsyTacyAndTib

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Andrea313
Betsy-Tacy Treasury | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Such a fun reading challenge from the Betsy-Tacy Society! I'm pretty sure I've got a good number of these done already; BRB, going to see for sure and post about it. How many have you inadvertently checked off this year? And what about registration for the #BetsyTacyConvention, have you checked that box, too? 😜 #BetsyTacy #MaudHartLovelace #DeepValley

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Andrea313
Betsy-Tacy | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Kids! Kids! Heads up that registration for the Betsy-Tacy convention will go UP in price after June 30th! If you plan to join us in Deep Valley this October, act fast and save some dollars. I can't WAIT to see all you fellow Okto Deltas there. 🧡💙 Link to register in the comments. #BetsyTacy#BetsyTacyAndTib #MaudHartLovelace #DeepValley

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BarbaraJean
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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 & finishes Vol. 5 of the journals.⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Take a look and let me know where you‘d like to join in. I added Beautiful Joe right after Pollyanna, so we‘ll be reading two of LMM‘s fellow L.C. Page & Co. authors back to back.

Note: I added two books I forgot to put into our voting a couple months ago. LMM mentions Story of an African Farm multiple times in her journals (it‘s considered a feminist classic) and there‘s another reference to it in Vol. 5, so I added it here. ⬇
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) Aurora Leigh is referenced in Vol. 2 of the journals and in Emily Climbs. It‘s also really long (350-400 pages) AND it‘s a novel in verse, which may not be everyone‘s cup of tea. If nobody‘s interested in either of those, I can pull them out and reconfigure things.

FINALLY: a preview of other potential adjacent books:
Ivanhoe—Sir Walter Scott
Life of Charlotte Bronte—Elizabeth Gaskell
More Tramps Abroad—Mark Twain ⬇
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) People voted for the above three books in our poll but they‘re each 400-600 pages, so I‘m going to parcel them out more sparingly. I might add Gaskell‘s Charlotte Bronte bio after we finish the Emily books, since there are a lot of parallel vibes between Emily & Jane Eyre.

After all of THAT… 😂 Let me know what you‘d like to be tagged for, and I‘ll post a finalized schedule soon!
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rubyslippersreads I had that copy of Beautiful Joe as a child. I read it over and over. 🐶 7mo
kwmg40 I‘d definitely like to continue with the #LMMReread books (the Emily ones from this list). Thanks! 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm down for any/all of these. Like @rubyslippersreads I had a copy of Beautiful Joe that I read so many time growing up. It has very Black Beauty vibes. I'm a little scared of Aurora Leigh but am willing to give it a try if everyone else wants to read it 😂 7mo
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads It's such a sweet cover! @kwmg40 I'll make sure to tag you for the Emily books! @TheAromaofBooks Knowing your feelings about poetry, I was definitely thinking of you when I said Aurora might not be everyone's cup of tea 😂 I'll give it a few more days to see who else weighs in, but I think I'll start with a schedule for the summer and we can revisit interest in Aurora when we get to August and Emily Climbs! 7mo
rubyslippersreads Ivanhoe is also a #BetsyTacy adjacent book. 🙂 7mo
julieclair I‘d like to read all of these except the journals. I‘m a bit hesitant about Aurora Leigh, but I‘d like to give it a try! Thanks so much for organizing all of this for us, @BarbaraJean ! 💙 7mo
BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads I have never read Betsy-Tacy! 😱 Maybe I need to read it when we get to Ivanhoe 😄 @julieclair I'll put you on all the lists except the journals! I'm thinking I might pre-read some of Aurora Leigh, see what it's like, and report back. I love the “Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God“ quote, but that's really the extent of my familiarity. @TheAromaofBooks 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Ohhh you would probably really like Betsy-Tacy!! It's a series that starts out for and about younger readers, and the books get more advanced as the characters get older - Betsy is married by the end of the series!! They're super cute. 7mo
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