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Christmas with Anne: And Other Holiday Stories | L. M. Montgomery

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The last read for #KindredSpiritsChristmas is another cozy feel-good read from the queen of cozy. I‘ve really enjoyed reading these stories every day. Thanks so much for hosting @BarbaraJean ! 🤗 80 points

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BarbaraJean You‘re welcome—this was such a fun daily read this year! 1mo

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JenlovesJT47

Christmas with Anne: And Other Holiday Stories | L. M. Montgomery

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Today‘s #KindredSpiritsChristmas read is a good reminder to reach out to people who are lonely around the holidays & doing what we can to make a difference. 80 points

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BarbaraJean

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JenlovesJT47

Christmas with Anne: And Other Holiday Stories | L. M. Montgomery

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Next up for #KindredSpritsChristmas is Uncle Richard‘s New Year‘s Dinner. Another family feud is ended when Prissy secretly goes to her estranged uncle‘s house & cooks his New Year‘s dinner while he is at work. Classic LMM. 80 points

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BarbaraJean

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I'd love to be friends with you,“ she said slowly. “I've often thought I'd like to know you. Isn't it odd that we have the same name? It was so nice of you to come and see me. I—I'd love to have you come often.“

Aw—such a sweet story of a mixup that leads to a kind deed and a future friendship. Also: Josie Pye!! ? ⤵️

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BarbaraJean Today‘s story is “Ida‘s New Year Cake,” which is available on Hoopla, and also in the tagged collection. You can read it online here: https://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/1905-1906/11/

Tomorrow, we‘ll finish out this Christmas buddy read with “Bertie‘s New Year,” which is available at the above-noted sources, as well as online here: https://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/1905-1906/5/

Christmas with Anne: And Other Holiday Stories

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CogsOfEncouragement lol Right? I‘m sure it is quite a chore to continually come up with unique names! I enjoyed this sweet story of kindness. 1mo

lauraisntwilder They were discussing the "other" Ida Mtchell and I thought, if only they had an idea of the other Josie Pye! 1mo

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BarbaraJean @CogsOfEncouragement I‘ve often thought about that with LMM‘s short stories, wondering how she chose all the names! @lauraisntwilder Oh, my—yes!! Now you have me thinking: what if LMM had written a story in which this Josie Pye was that Josie Pye and had the name mixup. A very different story indeed. 😂 1mo

rubyslippersreads Was the Josie Pye in AOGG the evil twin of the one in this story? 1mo

BarbaraJean @rubyslippersreads I only just saw this comment! 🤦🏻‍♀️ And YES, I think we have an evil twin situation here. 1mo

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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 ❣️🎄❣️ 2mo

AnnCrystal 😍🎄🤩💝. 2mo

Scochrane26 Thanks for letting me know, Sarah! 2mo

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BarbaraJean

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Clorinda stopped short suddenly. She had just remembered that she would not have liked to say that last sentence to Aunt Emmy. Therefore, there was something wrong about it. Clorinda had long ago learned that there was sure to be something wrong in anything that could not be said to Aunt Emmy.”

I loved today‘s story, with its focus on giving out of who you are, rather than what you can spend.❤️

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BarbaraJean Today‘s story, “Clorinda‘s Gifts,” is available on Hoopla and in the tagged collection, or online here: https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150144/html.php#Clorindas_G...

Tomorrow we‘ll read “Katherine Brooke Comes to Green Gables,” which is an excerpt from Anne of Windy Poplars (2nd Year, chs. 5-6). The excerpt is in the tagged collection, or the full text of the book is available here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20100608

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CogsOfEncouragement This one was really sweet, I enjoyed it. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks I know LMM wrote a lot of short stories for “churchy“ magazines and such where she “had“ to have a moral to the story, and it makes me wonder how many in this collection were originally written with that purpose. But I still really enjoy them because she makes the lesson so palatable and thoughtful. 2mo

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lauraisntwilder @TheAromaofBooks I've been wondering that, too. This one definitely felt like that, but she is so good at forming characters quickly that it was still enjoyable. 2mo

TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder - Exactly, she makes her characters still feel so realistic and relatable, even in a 6-page story, that it feels like we're just learning the lesson alongside them instead of being preached at. 2mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder Yes, this one seemed very much like a teach-y one for young people! I wondered that about “The Osborne's Christmas“ as well. Both clearly have a “lesson” but as you said, Sarah, they don‘t feel preachy. I thoroughly enjoyed both!

I started poking around to see if I could find publication info on “The Osbornes Christmas” because it seemed SO much like a Sunday school paper or similar. ⬇ 2mo

BarbaraJean (Cont'd) I found this page, which has pub info for a lot of LMM's stories: https://www.fadedpage.com/sc/montgomery.php

It didn't shed light on the Osbornes, but it does say that Clorinda was published in the Epworth Herald. I looked that up and found that it was a newspaper for a Methodist Episcopal young people‘s service organization, so the “moral of the story” purpose checks out! https://www.nyac.com/theepworthheralddec2009 2mo

BarbaraJean OK, never mind, that page DOES have info on “The Osborne's Christmas“--not sure how I missed it! It was published in “Zion's Herald,“ a weekly Methodist publication “devoted to religion and moral subjects“ (according to Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/pub_zions-herald?tab=about). IA also has that issue scanned if you want to see the original! https://archive.org/details/sim_zions-herald_1903-12-16_81_50/page/1604/mode/2up (edited) 2mo

lauraisntwilder She was writing for the Methodists?! Felicity King would be scandalized! 😂 2mo

TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder - I lost it 😂 2mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder 😂😂😂 2mo

rubyslippersreads @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder Yes. A less talented writer could have made this unbearably sappy. 2mo

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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 👏🏼👏🏼🎄☃️❤️😘 2mo

BookmarkTavern Oh I am so excited! 💖💖💖 2mo

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BarbaraJean

The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1910-1921 | Lucy Maud Montgomery

This evening was fine & crisp and I drove into Uxbridge to meet Ewan who has been away all week attending a conference in Toronto. We have a dear little mare "Queen," who is not afraid of motors or anything of that kind & I can drive her without fear. We had a pleasant drive home through the moonlight and a delightful home-coming, with Frede & Sonny Punch [Chester], a bright fire and a good supper awaiting us.
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BarbaraJean I came across this today on FB and was delighted! This quote is from Vol. 2 of the Selected Journals—so it‘s farther along in Maud‘s life than we‘ve gotten yet, but I thought I‘d share 😊 4mo

TheAromaofBooks So fun!!! 4mo

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BarbaraJean

The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901-1911 | L.M. Montgomery

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LMM includes lots of details on her inspiration for places, people, and events in AoGG (pp. 348-356) and AoA (pp. 356-7), a little about Kilmeny (p. 357), and then details on Story Girl (p. 316 and pp. 404-408).

📚What do these details add to your reading of these books?
📚What do they offer you in understanding more about LMM and her writing?

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TheAromaofBooks I definitely enjoyed hearing about some of her inspirations - I also felt like some of her explanations were in the nature of making sure people understand who/what were NOT inspirations 😂 I really love the way that LMM (and many authors) are able to pull threads from different aspects of life and weave them into a different story. 5mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Haha—yes, it felt like there was a lot of “setting the record straight“ going on! As well as wanting to record it for posterity. So much of this third volume (her third volume, not the third published volume... I REALLY wish the editors had split up the journals in the same way LMM did!!) has felt like she's writing for an imagined future audience as much as she's keeping a journal for herself. 5mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Also, all her details about which stories come from her own family lore really adds a lot to my view of Story Girl. Knowing it was such a beloved book to LMM, and with these added details about the sources for the stories... I'm really looking forward to re-reading it with that added lens! I also love knowing that she didn't think very highly of Kilmeny as a book 😆 5mo

lauraisntwilder That was an interesting section. I've been making notes of all the times something reminds me of her books. The way she talks about her home in Cavendish, for example, is so much like Pat. They didn't burn down the house, but her leaving felt just as final. 5mo

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BarbaraJean

The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901-1911 | L.M. Montgomery

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📚Now that we‘ve read further into LMM‘s adult life, what aspects of her personality stand out to you that maybe you hadn‘t noticed before?
📚What picture do you get of who she is and what she was like as a person?

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TheAromaofBooks I've always known she was very proud/a bit of a snob, and I feel like that is definitely true. The whole section towards the end where she is telling about her family history and connections, even the part where she was summarizing the neighbors - she definitely ranks people and considers her family a cut above many of the others. However, I think that makes her determined to live up to her family name and the idea of “bringing shame“ to the ⬇ 5mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) family is a real horror to her. It really seems to me that that is a bit driving part of what kept her with her grandmother for so long, and it definitely seems to be what kept her from certain romantic entanglements. LMM also had an amazing sense of humor and a knack for friendship. I think she had a huge capacity for affection that was thwarted again and again. Her description of her marriage as something that made her “content“ made ⬇ 5mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) me so sad for her because it felt like she married someone who couldn't even be a real friend to her, and she seems like someone who desperately needed friendship in her life. I find myself wondering what her life would have been like if her mother had lived, if she had grown up in a house with parents who cared about her, with some younger siblings - I'm rambling wildly away from the actual question here 😂 but I guess the point is that⬇ 5mo

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) I think her journals show us not just who she was, but glimpses of who she could have been under different, happier circumstances. I so admire her determination to stay positive, to take moments to just drink in the beauty of the world around her and find peace in it, her commitment to what she viewed as her duties, and her ability to find and distill humor and humanity into virtually everything she wrote. 5mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks The snobbishness is EXACTLY what I was thinking! That really came across in this volume more than in the previous one. But that judgmental eye combined with her sense of humor results in some hilarious recounting of various events! Her critical eye allows her to stand aside from certain moments and see the ridiculousness of it. I also wonder what it would have been like to meet her—whether I'd have stood up under her scrutiny! 5mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I echo your ramblings in thinking about LMM! So often when reading these journals, I run through “what if“ scenarios. I think she'd have been so much more grounded and less susceptible to depression) if she'd had a childhood with loving parents & siblings, instead of strict grandparents who did NOT understand her. Or if she'd married someone who could have been a true confidant and partner. Or if she'd had a good therapist 😆 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Her sad marriage is what really gets me the most, I think. It just seems like she was finally in situation where she could be “free“ and instead she shackles herself to someone she doesn't really respect and saddles herself with basically a full-time job (minister's wife) that she KNOWS she isn't going to like. I think it's SO interesting how many of her life choices really were based on “what people might say“ instead of what would actually make⬇ (edited) 5mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) her happy. 5mo

lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I was surprised at how often she reread the parts of her journal that made her sad, but she didn't have anyone to reminisce with - her friends were either far away, dead, or greatly changed. As you've already mentioned, I wish she could've had some psychological help. She seems to have decided her life was over done with by the time she's 35 or so, like all her good days were over. Add to your list of "what ifs" > 5mo

lauraisntwilder < all the men whose proposals she rejected. 5mo

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