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LitsyEvents
Magic for Marigold | L.M. Montgomery
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lauraisntwilder
The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery
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I forgot to post about this sweet book, shame on me! 😉 Picking up right where The Story Girl leaves off, this volume sees the young King cousins through the winter. They create a magazine, make New Year's resolutions, get caught in a snow storm, and show distinct signs of growing up. This sequel is a little more melancholy than the first, but isn't that how it always is in winter?

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kwmg40
The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery
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The sequel to The Story Girl, this novel has much of the charm and the light humour of the Anne books but it is also very melancholy, with the narrator Bev looking back at his childhood with his friends.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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BarbaraJean
The Golden Road | L. M. Montgomery
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LMM called The Story Girl “my own favourite among my books” and “the best piece of work I have yet done.” Of writing it, she said: “I was sorry to finish it. Never…had I laid down my pen and taken farewell of my characters with more regret…I have written it from sheer love of it.”
Her comments above about The Golden Road were quite different.
What are your feelings about each book?
Do you think the difference LMM felt is apparent in her writing?

BarbaraJean #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread Golden Road Discussion 3/3 3mo
Roary47 I think she genuinely loved these characters, and to feel rushed in writing characters I grew to love too from the attention she paid to their development I would have hated it too. These characters I grew to love more than her other books and I am sad there was not more. I think if she did have the time that she wanted she could have made more of an epilogue to finalize their stories than just predictions. 3mo
julieclair It makes me sad to think she did not enjoy writing this book. But it also amazes me that even so, she was able to create such a feeling of warmth among her characters, that radiates out to us, the readers. 3mo
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TheAromaofBooks I don't feel like The Golden Road is a weaker book than The Story Girl - to me, it picks up right where the first book left off. Like @julieclair and @Roary47 I'm amazed at how her inner turmoil and stress doesn't feel reflected in the writing, which is warm and happy. 3mo
lauraisntwilder @julieclair I completely agree! 3mo
kwmg40 Her comment about Chester suggests she was a typical overworked and tired mom. I can believe that the writing process was arduous with an infant around! 3mo
BarbaraJean @Roary47 Definitely! In some ways, I wish there had been a reunion-type scene, where they all gather at the King farm again and reminisce about the old days and we get to see where they are now and how they are as adults, both as a group and as individuals. But then again, I also like the way there are just hints so that the reader can imagine for themselves. 3mo
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @julieclair I didn‘t see this as weaker than SG, either—actually, I think I like this one better because it builds on the foundation LMM had already set up with these characters in SG. The Story Girl‘s stories felt a little like filler in the first book, and “Our Magazine” does a little of that here, but all the little sarcastic side comments really bring the magazine excerpts to life and make them part of the story! 3mo
BarbaraJean @kwmg40 Yes, her journal comments really show her struggling to figure out how to continue her work while balancing it with her new life as a wife and mother! Like others have said, it‘s amazing to me how she was able to deepen these characters and their stories—in such a warm, nostalgic way—while she was having to steal moments here and there to write, feeling such pressure and “little pleasure in writing” because of it. (edited) 3mo
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