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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

BarbaraJean, dabbe

BarbaraJean That classic Bantam paperback! Such nostalgia (even though I never liked the cover of this one 😂) 2d

dabbe All my Shardlakes are in ebook form. They'd be way to heavy to cart around! 🤣😍🤣 2d

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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?!? ⤵️

Daisey, CSeydel, TheAromaofBooks

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 3d

CSeydel How odd! Yes, my 1987 edition is missing those passages (but you know that, you have the same one lol) 3d

CSeydel I wonder why 3d

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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 ⬇ 3d

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!! 3d

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 3d

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! 3d

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! 2d

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CSeydel

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

Never did read these but somehow managed to keep them safe for 35 years (and 6 moves!) #kindredspiritsbuddyread going to give me that push

BarbaraJean

BarbaraJean I have those same copies from my teen years! 3d

Daisey I have these same editions as well! 2d

CSeydel @barbarajean @daisey GenX starter kit core item! (edited) 2d

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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

Daisey, CSeydel, TheAromaofBooks

Tamra 😂 3d

TheAromaofBooks For REAL 😂 2d

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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

Daisey, CSeydel, TheAromaofBooks

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder @JenlovesJT47 Not sure if you were joining in for this one—let me know if you want to be tagged! 3d

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 3d

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) 3d

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CSeydel Yay! I‘ll start it today 3d

Daisey I haven‘t started yet; May snuck up on me. I downloaded the audio and will probably listen to these chapters tomorrow. 3d

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. 3d

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!) 2d

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BookSpinBingo | Untitled

A new month! May is always so busy and I have a trip planned for the end of the month. But, that trip will involve two whole days on a train, so I'm going to read that whole time. Glorious. My #bookspin is James and my #doublespin is Pollyanna (for #kindredspiritsbuddyread ). Thank you, Sarah! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 4d

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lauraisntwilder

Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper

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Book review catch-up post 2 of 5:

This wasn't for me. As I said in one of our #kindredspiritsbuddyread discussions, it's a lot of wandering around in the woods occasionally interrupted by horrible violence. The "bad Indians" were bad because they were of a savage tribe, while the "good Indians" were held to a higher standard than the whites in both ethics and competency. The ending was a shocking disappointment.

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LitsyEvents

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

Repost for @BarbaraJean

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! 1w

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 😆 1w

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BarbaraJean

L.M. Montgomery's Complete Journals: The Ontario Years: 1918-1921 | Jen Rubio L.M. Montgomery

What sections or themes from this volume of the journals stand out to you?
Are there sections or quotes that you particularly enjoyed or resonated with?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMJournals

JenlovesJT47, lauraisntwilder, TheAromaofBooks

lauraisntwilder I have been using colored tabs throughout my reading of LMM's journals, using green to note especially pretty observations of the natural world. I realize LMM has left the island, but she goes on multiple vacations in this volume, & still I only used one green tab in this book. Instead of a favorite part, I'm most conscious of a change in her world view. Even before Frede died & Ewan had his first attack, her years of severe anxiety changed her. 1w

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder That is fascinating! I hadn't noticed it while reading, but yes, there are far fewer nature descriptions in this volume. And her overall view of life does seem to have changed. Her exuberance--the heights that seem to balance her lows--is missing here. It does seem to be a gradual change, growing from those years of anxiety, but it's there. 3d

BarbaraJean What I most enjoyed was what I guess I'd call the more philosophical entries. She seems to spend more time than she did in previous journals discussing her views on religion, life, literature, writing, etc. And she's such a fascinating personality that those sections were super interesting to read. I love her stories and her observations/commentary on various happenings, but hearing her thoughts in depth was my favorite aspect of this volume. 3d

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