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L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1922-1925 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Tonight was my first evening home since July 6th. Verily, 'tis a treat. I look forward nowadays to an evening home as I used to look forward in the leisurely old Cavendish days to an evening out.”
—L.M. Montgomery, July 15, 1925
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Maud is always so relatable. 💜
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Daisey So relatable! 3d

TheAromaofBooks For real!!! 2d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder Just a heads up: our discussion for Vol. 5 is on the schedule for tomorrow, but I‘m probably not going to get it posted till Sunday evening. This weekend is PACKED, and I should have advance prepped seeing as I finished the book Tuesday, but here we are 😐 I‘m guessing there‘s no hurry, though! 1d

TheAromaofBooks No worries!! I still have about 25 pages left to read anyway, so Sunday evening sounds about right 😂 Hope your weekend is full of the good kind of busy!! 21h

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BarbaraJean

L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years, 1922-1925 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“So long thy power hath blessed me sure it still
Will lead me on
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent till
The night is gone

Something entered into & possessed our souls and the night became holy and the dark woodland a temple of the Almighty. Moments like that were the highlights of our trip and catch our eyes as we look back.”

In this week‘s #LMMJournals section, LMM‘s descriptions really shone for me—her love of place & love of nature.⤵️

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BarbaraJean #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead friends, how is your reading coming along? @lauraisntwilder —how is your catching up going? @TheAromaofBooks —are you still reading along with the journals? (edited) 1w

TheAromaofBooks Yes!! I am a little behind, but still very invested in these journals. This section has been ROUGH. How can things just keep getting worse for her?! And the whole church union thing seems so stressful and kind of pointless?? Why are we doing it if some congregations can vote not to do it?? 7d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks After reading those couple of biographies we read, I knew things would keep getting worse, but it hits differently as you read it in her words and from her perspective! The church union thing was baffling to me as well. It seems like the vote was to allow congregations to have a say rather than only leadership, but seeing the way it fostered such animosity in churches and communities—it seems like a terrible idea. ⬇ (edited) 6d

BarbaraJean So this is interesting (from: https://ucheritage.ca/formation-of-the-united-church-of-canada/): “The United Church was inaugurated on June 10, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario, when the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, and 70 per cent of the Presbyterian Church of Canada entered into an organic union. Joining as well was the small General Council of Union Churches, centred largely in Western Canada.“ That 70% is telling!! 6d

BarbaraJean Also: all the comments about Methodist vs. Presbyterian in LMM's earlier books make a lot more sense in the context of this later church union movement. 6d

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

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The coffee table book format may suggest a shallow read, but there's an awful lot of information packed in here! Although it acts more like an appetizer for any one life story you might want to read more about, so many of the original journals, diaries, featured here have been published in book or excerpt form that it simultaneously acts as an introduction and a reading list. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Perhaps reflecting the changing technology, moving from handwriting to typing and online, three quarters of the book focuses on accounts from before 1900. Even given that much space, of course, it's no doubt just a sample of a fraction of what is out there in the world, though it tries to feature a number of nations, cultures, languages, even if it seems to me there were more white, western faces. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? The accounts are careful to indicate the wrongdoings of a number of historical figures, even if their place in history still secured them a spot for discussion. 😑
The formatting is interesting because you'll see in images a sample of the diary, perhaps other examples of that person's work or things from their life, and a bit of in context imagery and wording besides the basic bio and what's significant about the diary and their life. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Some diaries get two two-page spreads, the second set 'in detail', with more aspects of the journal and their life.
The 'directory' at the end of each section of time covered felt a bit odd, because all of a sudden you'd get a two-page spread of columns of text covering a handful of extra diaries from the same time period without any further visuals or details. I mean, if you're going to include them, give them the page spread too! 1w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? It wouldn't have made the book that much longer. 🤷🏼‍♂️
It makes sense that a good number of the entries are about writers, though I guess from the cover, I was surprised there were not more artists, or people who had made their diaries into art objects. It's really more of a who's who beyond the very first journals which are significant just for their place in the timeline of the medium's existence. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? No surprise, unfortunately, that a number of diaries center on those who experienced or commented on conflicts, wars and revolutions, considering how often they feature in humanity's history.
The collection does include a fair amount of female contributors, the percentages feel as though they represent the timeline, the historical disparity in women having the ability to be recognized for literary achievement or work outside the home. 1w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 It's a pleasing item to flip through, but if you're planning to read it cover to cover, I recommend taking it slow, it's an awful lot of disparate historical snippets to cram into your brain in a short period *cough* library loan period *cough*, though many figures and events will be familiar.
An interesting read, but I think I like focusing more on the life of one individual at a time. More memoirs to come! 1w

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

Such elegant phrasing of such an ugly thing.

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

“Color possess me...“ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

Not just a prolific inventor, Edison apparently possessed stylish penmanship. A lot of photos of pages from the original journals or their manuscript copies in this collection, this is the first one in I could easily read.

StaceGhost “Slept as sound as a bug in a barrel of morphine” okay eddy you ball 1w

julesG That is remarkable penmanship. 1w

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Robotswithpersonality

Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK

So half my mind is going: happy tree! 🌳☺️
And the other half is picturing the Ents trashing Saruman's tower. 😏 Perhaps no discontented, non-roaming trees....

GingerAntics I dunno, trees that are dying because humans are destroying the environment… could be discontented. Is anyone asking? Is there a tree survey? 2w

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Remarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Journals, Notebooks, & Letters | DK