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“…over a hundred years ago great-great-grandfather Murray built this house and built it well. I wonder if, a hundred years from now, anybody will win a victory over anything because of something I left or did. It is an inspiring thought.”

This quote gave me chills—we‘re reading this 100 years after its publication. I think Emily would find that an inspiring thought!

How is your Emily-reading going this week?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

JenlovesJT47, lauraisntwilder, kwmg40, GingerAntics, TheAromaofBooks

AnnCrystal 🤩💝💝💝. 4d

TheAromaofBooks I can't deal with Aunt Ruth and her “you're sly“ accusations 😂 And Creepy Dean is literally creepier than ever. Overall the whole everyone trying to convince Emily who she wants to marry even though she's an actual child is kind of weird. But I am enjoying looking for tiny bits of LMM within the pages!! 4d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Aunt Ruth is infuriating, and the way Emily handles all of it is a testament to how much Emily has grown!! I'd indulge in a LOT more smart remarks than Emily does. Aunt Ruth's persistent “but WHY did you do _____?“ (and then her refusal to accept an honest response to a ridiculous question) would make me want to slap her. I mean, Emily probably wants to slap her, too, but it's remarkable how much restraint she shows! 1d

TheAromaofBooks Right?? Nothing is more annoying than someone asking you a question and then refusing to believe your answer! 1d

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LitsyEvents

Emily Climbs | Lucy Maud Montgomery

repost for @BarbaraJean

The Kindred Spirits Buddy Read of Emily Climbs starts this week! This is book 2 in the Emily series. I‘ll post weekly check-ins, and we‘ll discuss the book on Saturday, Sept. 13. Let me know if you‘d like to join in—if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMReread

#BuddyRead

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LitsyEvents

Emily Climbs | L M Montgomery

repost for @BarbaraJean

The Kindred Spirits #BuddyRead of Emily Climbs starts this week! This is book 2 in the Emily series. I‘ll post weekly check-ins, and we‘ll discuss the book on Saturday, Sept. 13. Let me know if you‘d like to join in—if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMReread

BarbaraJean Thanks for the repost! 1w

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BarbaraJean

Emily Climbs | L M Montgomery

The Kindred Spirits Buddy Read of Emily Climbs starts this week! This is book 2 in the Emily series. I‘ll post weekly check-ins, and we‘ll discuss the book on Saturday, Sept. 13. Let me know if you‘d like to join in—if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#LMMReread

JenlovesJT47, lauraisntwilder, kwmg40, TheAromaofBooks, LitsyEvents

TheBookHippie I love this book! Enjoy! 1w

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics not sure if you read this one yet. 1w

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh the second one in the trilogy. I bought this after we read the first one and I loved it so much… but then I totally forgot about it. I‘m in. 1w

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TheAromaofBooks I started this one (against my better judgment 😂) so I'm in!! 1w

BarbaraJean @GingerAntics Yay! I'll add you to the tag list. @TheAromaofBooks 😂 😂 I'm interested to hear how re-reading these lands for you!! 1w

BarbaraJean @TheBookHippie I 💜 Emily so much. 1w

TheBookHippie I do to! If I can squeeze in a reread I will let you know! 1w

BarbaraJean @TheBookHippie You're very welcome to join if you can! Also, we're reading Emily's Quest in November—so there's that. 😁 1w

BarbaraJean @JenlovesJT47 @lauraisntwilder @kwmg40 @TheAromaofBooks @GingerAntics Soooo, I don‘t know how I keep doing this, but I got the number of chapters wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ I‘ve corrected the pic on this post—if you were tracking which chapters to read based on the original version of the post, please note that it‘s changed. Because Emily Climbs has 25 chapters and not 34 chapters 😩😆 6d

TheAromaofBooks Oh nice, that means I'm all caught up for this week! 😂 6d

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Roary47

Anne of Windy Poplars | Lucy Maud Montgomery

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3✨ Anne leaves college to pursue her career. There are lots of challenges outside of green gables, but she finds friends everywhere she goes. No matter the challenge Anne is always ready to take it on.

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Kristy_K

Anne's House of Dreams | L.M. Montgomery

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Loved seeing Anne and Gilbert as a married couple and with new friends but missed the people of Green Gables

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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 🎉💛🎉💛🎉💛🎉 1mo

Jjaxn95 @PageTurner1877 !! 🍂🎃 1mo

Avanders 👏🏼👏🏼🍁🍂🧡♥️💛 1mo

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lauraisntwilder

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I finished this on Saturday and forgot to post. I loved revisiting New Moon in this reread. Reading LMM's journals has deepened my appreciation of her novels.

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

Do you agree with LMM that this is the best book she‘s written (thus far in her life)?

What criteria do you use when considering what is a “best book”? For you, is “best” different from “favorite”?

rubyslippersreads, JenlovesJT47, lauraisntwilder, kwmg40, TheAromaofBooks, willaful

BarbaraJean I have a *really* hard time with determining what is a “best book.“ For me, “favorite“ and “best“ are very different things. I can appreciate a book's literary excellence and still not like it, and I can absolutely LOVE a book that I know isn't very well-written. So even though I asked this question, it's hard to answer! 😆 I do think EoNM is a better book than AoGG, but I don't know if I'd say it's better than Rilla. 2mo

lauraisntwilder EoNM is my favorite, but I think AoGG is probably her best to this point, from a literary standpoint. Marilla, Matthew, and Rachel are all so well and clearly defined. Jimmy is, but Elizabeth and Laura don't feel quite as real. I love them, but they're very similar to other sets of sisters in LMM's work. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks I think I have to agree with @lauraisntwilder that AoGG seems like a more well-rounded book to me. It's also possible, though, that I feel that way because I've read AoGG a thousand times and EoNM twice 😂 I definitely don't think Emily is better than Rilla - I really think Rilla may be LMM's best book. I do think LMM connected far more with Emily as a reflection of herself than she did with Anne, who was entirely imaginary, and I can see why ⬇ 2mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) LMM would consider this her most pleasurable book to write. I think she enjoyed slipping in some autobiographical tones. She's also more confident as a writer at this point than she was when AoGG was written. 2mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder @TheAromaofBooks I see that with AoGG being a more well-rounded book than EoNM. I think I love Emily so much because there is so much depth and richness to Emily herself. We don't have nearly as much of Anne's inner life as we do Emily's—the tradeoff there is the deeper characterization Laura points out in AoGG, of Marilla, Matthew, Rachel, and others. With Rilla, it's kind of the best of both in its characterization. 1mo

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead LMMReread

For those of you who are re-reading, is there anything that landed differently for you on this reading?

If you‘re also reading the journals—how did the context of the journals affect your reading of the book?

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BarbaraJean Because of the journals, I saw SO many parallels between Emily and LMM: her life, her personality, and her family stories. I see such a mirror in Emily of LMM's NEED to write, how often she has to “write things out“ in order to process them emotionally. I also saw so many parallels to LMM's own writing ambitions (I mean, the Alpine Path is pretty obvious). Aunt Elizabeth landed a little differently this time—I actually found her more sympathetic.⬇ 2mo

BarbaraJean (Cont'd) I wondered how much of LMM's grandmother was reflected in Aunt Elizabeth. She absolutely DOES NOT understand Emily, but I found her so human in her eventual flash of realization that Emily is her own person whose perspective and feelings should be considered. She literally is a woman who has ZERO experience with or understanding of children and that somehow made me understand (not excuse!) her behavior a bit more this time. 2mo

lauraisntwilder The Alpine Path, yes, but it struck me as sad that creepy Dean Priest sent Emily the lines in a letter. I don't think I knew the significance of that poem to LMM when I read this before. LMM also had a horrible time shut up in the medical ward at school with measles. I was fascinated by that part of the journals and had completely forgotten that Emily gets measles, too. 2mo

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lauraisntwilder Knowing how often LMM had to entertain clergymen, I enjoyed the part where Emily asks Lofty John's priest for help even more. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks YES on the parts of Emily's life and personality that aligned with Emily! It was so interesting to see what family history tales she granted to Emily. And yes, Emily's determination and ambition and literal NEED to write all felt so close to the way LMM describes herself. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks I wonder if LMM had already decided who Emily would marry when she wrote this first book, or if she was still keeping her options open? I feel like she sets Emily up with three options who connect with her in different ways: Teddy (soul), Dean (brain), and Perry (body). I could be getting really carried away here haha but in some ways these three also seem to represent the way LMM didn't really think it was possible for her to find someone who ⬇ 2mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) could be all three. (And in the end, LMM married someone who was none of them! Ewan is a fourth category, really - “practical“.) As a side question, do you think LMM intended for Dean to come off as creepy? @lauraisntwilder I would be interested in your thoughts, too!! 2mo

lauraisntwilder @TheAromaofBooks No, I don't think she did. I like your idea of the three possibilities lining up with soul, brain, and body. LMM had Herman Leard for body (and what a lovely way to rewrite the life of someone who died young) who was socially inappropriate, like Perry, the "hired boy." Her brain companion was probably George MacMillan, right? I don't think he was creepy, but he was across the ocean. Maybe Dean's age is supposed to feel like a 1/2 2mo

lauraisntwilder great distance? And maybe she knew the whole time Emily would never be able to cross it? And her soulmate was Frede, I think. I don't think she ever found that connection in a romantic relationship. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder - Yes!! That is a great call with Frede being her soulmate; I genuinely think that's true. It doesn't seem like she ever connected with a man/potential husband in that way - or maybe she didn't let herself? I think she had trouble trusting people, and Frede was one of the few people in the world that she 100% completely trusted. I think part of the reason she married Ewan was because he WASN'T someone she could ever fall in love ⬇ 2mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) with, which weirdly made him “safe“ - falling in love gives someone a lot of power over you in many ways. 2mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder Ugh, yes—I had forgotten that Dean sends her those lines. Ironic given his jealousy over her writing ambitions later! @TheAromaofBooks I agree with Laura—I don‘t think LMM intended Dean to come off as creepy, at least not in the 1st book. (There are too many icky age-gap romances elsewhere in her work that are presented as normal!) I do think she intends some red flags—his jealousy & possessiveness—in the subsequent books, though. 1mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I LOVE your connections with soul, brain, and body (although I think the connection with Perry is a little more tenuous, at least on Emily‘s side). That‘s such a great insight into LMM, as well—I think she articulates it pretty similarly, that she wants all three but doesn‘t believe they can (or will) all be contained within one person. 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder I think her “brain” connection could be Nate, when she was young. They shared so many books and ideas back and forth. And I wonder where Will fits into the soul/brain/body idea. I think you‘re spot on with Frede being her soulmate! @TheAromaofBooks I completely agree that LMM didn‘t let herself connect deeply with a man, romantically. I think the depth of her passion for Herman scared her deeply. ⬇ 1mo

BarbaraJean (Cont'd) That, plus her baffling engagement to Edwin, plus her abiding fear of what others would think/say, I think all added up so that she was afraid to let go of control and trust someone enough to fall in love (and therefore she settled for Ewan as the safe, practical option so she could have a home and family of her own). 1mo

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