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Emily's Quest | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Next up in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead:
✍🏻One week of LMM‘s journals
📓Two weeks reading Emily‘s Quest
✍🏻One more week to finish volume SIX of LMM‘s journals
🎄THEN: #KindredSpiritsChristmas! (schedule will be posted separately)

I‘ve tagged my small list for #LMMJournals and Emily‘s Quest (Hi Sarah! Hi Laura!), but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be.

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BarbaraJean Wait, also tagging @kwmg40 for Emily‘s Quest! 3d

kwmg40 Thanks, I‘ll definitely be joining for Emily‘s Quest! 3d

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 Yay!! 🎉 3d

TheAromaofBooks Is it weird that I'm excited to get back into the journals? 😂 3d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks If it is, then I'm also weird. 😆 2d

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The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough

Reposting for @BarbaraJean
Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

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The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough

Here‘s the next month for #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! We‘re just starting the tagged book for #LMMAdjacent, then after one more week back in the #LMMJournals, we‘ll return to the Emily books with Emily Climbs for an #LMMReread. Tag lists are in the comments… but all are welcome! Let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

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BarbaraJean Tag list for Missalonghi: @TheAromaofBooks, @julieclair, @lauraisntwilder, @rubyslippersreads, @DrSabrinaMoldenReads

The Ladies of Missalonghi

BarbaraJean Tag list for journals and Emily‘s Quest: @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder

Emily's Quest

BarbaraJean Okay, Missalonghi readers, I have no idea what‘s going on with chapters in this book. I have found no chapter divisions in the print copy. The Hoopla audio has 9 chapters. Searches online say: 1. There are chapters, 2. There are no chapters, 3. There are 19 chapters. All followed by the caveat: “AI answers may contain mistakes.” 🙄 I don‘t know where I got 22 chapters from. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So: read roughly half this week & we‘ll check in on Saturday! 😆 (edited) 2w

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TheAromaofBooks I just picked this up this morning and realized that it has no chapters 😂 Who does that!?!? 2w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Terry Pratchett does that and as much as I love Pratchett it drives me crazy! I started reading last night thinking I‘d read a couple chapters and see how far that took me. At page 30 of a 200-ish page book, I thought the first chapter was getting kind of long, and I started flipping ahead. By page 100 I realized I had yet again made a huge mistake in trusting a chapter count I found online 😂 2w

TheAromaofBooks That has actually been my biggest problem with reading the Discworld books! For some reason, the lack of chapters really turns me off of a book, and I can't even explain why 😂 2w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I feel the same—the lack of chapters turns me off! I think my brain prefers defined units of content so I know how many bits there are to parcel out. I've seen quotes from Pratchett saying he thought chapters broke up the natural flow of a story. But NOT having them kind of breaks my brain a little. I mean, you have to stop somewhere and I'd rather know where the author would stop! I guess he does use scene breaks, but still. ⬇ 2w

BarbaraJean The last Pratchett I read was an ebook version on Hoopla and it didn't even have any designation of where the scene breaks were. It gave me narrative whiplash to start a new paragraph and find I was suddenly in a completely different place with a different group of characters. That pulled me out of the narrative flow more than chapters would have! 2w

TheAromaofBooks Oh wow, that would be SO confusing! He definitely jumps around, so I can't imagine not even having the warning of an extra space! 😂 2w

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The Blue Castle | L. M. Montgomery

These quotes from LMM‘s journals feel so timely, since reading this felt like an escape and a refuge from the world for me—and both LMM‘s words and my experience of the book feel like a parallel to Valancy‘s Blue Castle.

Do you have a “Blue Castle”? Where are you finding refuge and escape these days?

#LMMReread #LMMJournals #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

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JenlovesJT47 I feel this way about my writing (mostly poetry). But it‘s not quite a blue castle. Maybe I need to restore faith in myself and remind myself it‘s okay to go after your dreams. You‘ll never get anywhere if you don‘t ever try. 💙🩵💙 3w

rubyslippersreads I‘m finding refuge in books. 3w

Sparklemn @rubyslippersreads Me too 3w

TheAromaofBooks Sitting on our porch has been my escape lately! Just being able to listen to the quiet and watch the leaves is so calming. 3w

kwmg40 Cooking while listening to audiobooks is how I escape from the troubles of the world. 2w

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L. M. Montgomery's Complete Journals, the Ontario Years: 1926-1929 | Jen Rubio

“The cover design of the Swedish Green Gables has always been one of the joys of my life. Anne is depicted as an exceedingly weird creature, carrying an enormous carpet bag with hair of a literal scarlet—not red or auburn or carrot but a bright glaring scarlet.”
—Nov. 21, 1926

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMJournals

I tracked down the Swedish cover LMM describes. Its rendition of Anne is indeed “exceedingly weird”—but for me the weirdness is ⤵️

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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) … more in the middle-aged face than it is the hair! Although the hair is certainly scarlet!! What stood out to you from LMM‘s account of 1926? The drama with Elsie had me riveted!! Along with the continuing Pickering saga… (edited) 1mo

BarbaraJean Also, here‘s an interesting article about the aforementioned Swedish Anne of Green Gables: https://annemanuscript.ca/stories/swedish-anne-of-green-gables/ 1mo

Ruthiella She looks like she is 30 years old and pissed off! 🤣 1mo

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lauraisntwilder That is a particularly awful cover. 1mo

lauraisntwilder A couple of things stood out to me this week. There's something funny about reading a journal from the 1920s. When LMM looks back at her old scrapbooks, she still likes the fashions of '93...and so do I! But 1993, in my case 1mo

lauraisntwilder I also noticed an uptick in exclamation points. Not sure if it means anything, just seemed like a lot more sentences ended with!!! I hope LMM gets to take a few naps in 1927. She's entirely too tired. 1mo

BarbaraJean @Ruthiella Right?! This is NOT Anne! @lauraisntwilder It's SO awful. It's such a testament to LMM's sense of humor that she says it's “always been one of the joys of my life“ 😂 😂 I'd love to see her reaction to these: https://teaandinksociety.com/bad-book-covers-anne-of-green-gables/ 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder Reading this 100 years on really is fascinating...I'm enjoying how easy it is to calculate years like that. LMM's reaction to the fashion plates struck me as snobby...but you're spot on with how relatable it is when I think back to “our“ 90s! Also: just think about what LMM would say about the fashions of 1993. 😆 Re: her exhaustion—it was so sweet and also sad when Stuart noticed how tired she was. Sometimes I want to shake Ewan! 1mo

TheAromaofBooks I really connected with LMM's thoughts on her big move! We just moved this year out of our house where we had lived for 11 years and when she said something along the lines of basically “my old house had a lot of problems but at least they were familiar problems“ - like FOR REAL 😂 Our new place is objectively better, but I still sometimes find myself a little homesick for the old routines, too. 1mo

TheAromaofBooks Reading these journals entries was making ME feel tired! Good grief, does she EVER get a break!? Like you and @lauraisntwilder mentioned, it's SO fun to me to be reading these almost exactly 100 years after they were written. Somehow it's made me feel more connected - maybe because it's easier to think of myself as LMM's age/stage of life? 1mo

TheAromaofBooks I also found myself feeling worried for LMM. She talks about how Ewan gets when he is going into one of his depressive stages - disconnected, unwilling to work, headachy, not like himself, etc. But then she talks about HERSELF feeling all of those things - almost like she's also depressed...??? I just feel super bad for her. Although it does seem like she has more (congenial) people to talk with in her new neighborhood. 1mo

lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean I flagged that part about Stuart saying she was tired, too. She had really never been cared for affectionately, even as a child, except by friends (Frede!) and they're all dying or far away. @TheAromaofBooks Yes, the stuff about moving was so relatable. And you're right, she was clearly depressed. Every time something threatened Lucky the cat, it became so obvious how much she relied on him 1mo

lauraisntwilder And, of course, it makes sense to love your pets, but sometimes that cat feels like the only member of "the race of Joseph" she has left. 1mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I spent 4 volumes of the journals trying to figure out how old LMM is at any given point by looking up her birth year and calculating it that way. I feel silly not having realized until volume FIVE—once we got to the 1920s—how much easier it would have been to use my OWN age relative to the year we‘re reading. She‘s 104 years older than me. Now that the dates are in the 20s, the math finally makes sense to my English major brain😆 1mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder Yep, her own depression is becoming really apparent, and you can see Ewan's mental health issues exacerbating it. It's so hard to read, because I still believe if she'd had a better support system all along (or had married someone who wasn't a minister, which limited what she felt she could share/who she could go to for support), her depression wouldn't have ramped up the way we see it doing here. ⬇ 1mo

BarbaraJean (Cont'd) It's also becoming SO apparent why she will feel such deep grief when Lucky the cat dies, and will need to pour it out in a 20-page journal entry! It's not that she feels that loss more than Frede's death, it's that her grief for that dear cat brings up not just that loss, but also the loss of Frede and ALL of her losses and griefs, compounded over the years. 1mo

TheAromaofBooks 100% on the Lucky thing - as I am getting older and starting to accumulate deaths of loved ones, you start to realize that grief isn't just the person you have most recently lost, it's compounded by everyone you already miss. I feel like we're already seeing LMM express that more frequently as she's lost her dearest friend, family, Park Corner, even the basic stability of her husband. And like you said, she's in a position where she feels like ⬇ 1mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) she can't share/unload with anyone - which means I think she's putting a lot of emotional pressure on a little cat that simply can't live forever! He's also a final connection to Park Corner that is going to be lost as well and it's SO sad. 1mo

TheAromaofBooks I forgot to say earlier, I was so relieved at how things came out with the whole Pickering thing! I can't remember his name, but kudos to the treasurer guy who, despite knowing the Pickerings well (BECAUSE he knew the Pickerings well???) saw through the whole thing and worked it all out! I could not BELIEVE that whole thing was following them to their new home! 1mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks YES with how things landed re: the Pickerings! I had such a fellow feeling of dread when they found out the man they were worried about was the treasurer 😫 Then it turns out he's already on their side!! There were also the other little incidents: where they end up parked next to the Pickerings—and LMM is “introduced“ to the Pickerings' lawyer—it felt like John Mustard all over again. They CANNOT seem to escape the Pickerings! 1mo

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L. M. Montgomery's Complete Journals, the Ontario Years: 1926-1929 | Jen Rubio

I‘m starting to read my used copy of Volume 6 of LMM‘s complete journals today, and I found this on the title page! Is it just me, or does it strike anyone else as odd for the editor to sign a book of someone else‘s collected journals?! #LMMJournals #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

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Ruthiella Maybe Carolyn asked her to sign? 1mo

BarbaraJean @Ruthiella That would make sense! I was kind of picturing a book-signing event, which seemed really weird for a work like this. 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder BTW, I'd recommend skipping the intro if you haven't started this already! It has a ton of spoilers for Blue Castle (and most of the rest of it seems to be repeated in the footnotes in the first few entries). 1mo

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lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean Oh! I'm glad I checked Litsy -- I was just about to start it this evening. Thanks for the warning! 1mo

lauraisntwilder It does seem a little odd to have the editor sign a journal. 1mo

AnnCrystal Interesting Discovery 📚💝. 1mo

TheAromaofBooks For real a bit random haha 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder I‘m so glad you saw it before you started!! I was indignant on your behalf when I saw the spoilers! 😂 1mo

lauraisntwilder @BarbaraJean 😂 To be fair though, I don't think many people are reading these that haven't read all the novels first. I'm doing this a weird way! 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder You're right, it's absolutely a fair assumption by the editor: most people embarking upon volume SIX of LMM's complete journals won't need a spoiler warning 😂 1mo

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L. M. Montgomery's Complete Journals, the Ontario Years: 1926-1929 | Jen Rubio

Hello, Kindred Spirits! We're currently reading Tales of the Alhambra, and in a couple more weeks, we'll start Vol. 6 of the #LMMJournals. Take a look at this schedule & let me know any tag lists you'd like to join! Our #LMMRereads will be The Blue Castle & Emily's Quest, and The Ladies of Missalonghi will be our #LMMAdjacent book (it's widely been called a rip-off of Blue Castle!). Then we'll take December to read LMM's cozy Christmas stories. 🌲

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TheAromaofBooks I can't believe we're going to be starting Volume 6! 2mo

TheAromaofBooks Also a little concerned because I went to Amazon to purchase it and Amazon says I've already bought it - but when I click on the order it shows me an earlier volume. So hopefully they are sending me the right one... -_- 2mo

julieclair I‘m in for Blue Castle and Missalonghi. And of course the LMM Christmas stories - that feels like an annual tradition now! 🎄 (edited) 2mo

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Sparklemn I‘d like to join you for Blue Castle 2mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Right?! Fingers crossed you receive volume 6 and not something else... 😬 BTW, these days I just sign you up for all the tag lists 😁 Let me know if I should ever take you off of anything (like when we get to Mistress Pat 😂) 2mo

BarbaraJean @julieclair Yay! I think I skipped doing the Christmas stories one year and I have always regretted it 😁 @Sparklemn I've added you to the list for Blue Castle--great to have you join! 2mo

lauraisntwilder Count me in for all of this! 1mo

BarbaraJean @lauraisntwilder I have added you to all the lists!! 1mo

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

Well, discussion questions didn‘t happen yesterday after my marathon weekend, so here we are on Monday!

Vol. 5 includes the Pickering lawsuit and lots of legal wrangling with Page, dissention and division over Church Union, and Ewan‘s reoccurring mental health episodes. It takes us through the end of LMM‘s time in Leaskdale, ending with Ewan accepting a call to Norval & Union—meaning an uprooting for LMM from a place & home she grew to love.⤵️

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BarbaraJean While there were some delightful interludes about LMM‘s cats, her garden, and books she was reading, along with some sweet anecdotes about Stuart and Chester, this volume was certainly thematically heavier than previous volumes. By the end, LMM‘s sadness over leaving Leaskdale felt surprising to me. It did remind me anew of her deep attachment to place (foreshadowing Pat of Silver Bush!). ⤵️ 3mo

BarbaraJean How did this volume of the journals land for you? Did you find it enjoyable, heavy, thought-provoking, heartbreaking… all of the above?

What stands out to you: what was most interesting, what will stay with you?

Was there anything surprising to you about these years in LMM‘s life?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMJournals 3mo

TheAromaofBooks There was soooo much going on in this section!! I have to say that I was somewhat surprised by how reluctant LMM was to leave Leaksdale, and even Zephyr (!!!), which also made me think about how she tells us that this journal is a place for her to complain - while I definitely think she had some VERY hard years, I do wonder if we are getting the negative-focus from her journals, when she is feeling her most tired and discouraged. 3mo

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TheAromaofBooks I loved the account of their trip to Mammoth Caves!! I have been there myself, so that made it extra interesting to me. She also drove through towns in Indiana and Ohio that I have visited (I have family in Warsaw, IN), so that section felt more personal to me. And I did laugh at the story of her losing all their money - except she actually had it the entire time. I am consistently impressed by her ability to sketch a situation so well. I am ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) sure she was an absolutely delightful correspondent. Her sense of humor pops out so unexpectedly sometimes.

Pg. 306 - The “crossword craze“ - I loved thinking about crosswords being in their infancy and everyone getting into them. With LMM's amazing vocabulary I'm sure she was very good at them.

I also really enjoyed the passage where she copied her relative's journal and then talked about the memories that it had brought her. Maybe ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) because we were reading dates from 1925, I was suddenly struck during this section of journals at how LMM is almost exactly 100 years older than me, so not just that these things were happening exactly 100 years ago, but that she was my age (ish - I think we're actually 110 years apart lol) when they were happening. So this section where she is getting very nostalgic about her childhood and remembering specific but small happy moments ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) really resonated with me. My life isn't nearly as hard as hers, but the drudgery of adulthood does wear you down sometimes, and it can be bittersweet to look back on those more carefree days when all your dreams were still real possibilities. (Said as someone who actually has a fabulous life that I love haha)

Okay, pg. 390, I want this book!!! “How We Ran the Farm“ sounds AMAZING.

This is super random, but on pg 392 there is a footnote⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) where the editor claims that LMM “omits a word“ from her sentence. The sentence is “I must suffer the pangs of deferred but candidly confessed curiosity for a season“ and the editor thinks there is a word missing after deferred. But it seems to be quite clear that what is being deferred is not a missing word like “pleasure“ but the curiosity. What do you all think? I only bring it up because I felt mildly indignant for LMM's sake 😂 3mo

TheAromaofBooks I am really going on and on, but I have gotten SO into these journals, way more than I ever thought I would. Even when they are sad and difficult I look forward to reading them! LMM is such a fantastic writer that even her descriptions of the mundane engage me. It was VERY hard to read about Ewan's mental health issues, and to see LMM beginning to develop mental health problems of her own - the beginnings of self-medication and the repetition of ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) things like, “I just need to live long enough to make sure my children are taken care of“ - so sad!!!

The entire church union thing made basically 0% sense to me, like why anyone thought this was a good idea, what they were trying to accomplish, why they were voting on it, why everyone hung out in their old church for another 3 months AFTER voting on it (I assume because of financial reasons but still) - it all just seemed like an ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) absolute nightmare, and, as LMM pointed out, not a good reflection of the God they all claimed to serve. 😑

And those Pickerings!!!!!!!!

Okay, I'll stop rambling now. Suffice to say, even though it was tough reading at times, I really enjoyed this journal a great deal, and admire LMM even more than I did before. 3mo

TheAromaofBooks PS I really wish I could remember which biography so snidely dismissed LMM's mourning of Frede by implying that she was more upset when her cat died. The fact that years have gone by and she is still bringing up Frede and how much she misses her and how sad she still is about it (and has NOT brought up the cat btw) just really makes me annoyed with whichever biographer that was! I really am glad we are reading the full journals ourselves ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) because I definitely feel like I have gotten a much different picture of LMM and various aspects of her life than I did from the biographies, especially regarding things like how important Frede was to her and LMM's relationship with Ewan (I feel like always shown as 100% negative in biographies, when I actually think that the two of them got along just fine when he wasn't in one of his terrible funks). So anyway. I do feel like it's ⬇ 3mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) been worthwhile.

And I'll really stop talking now 😂 3mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I‘m sure you‘re right that we‘re getting a disproportionate amount of negativity in the journals. Especially knowing LMM used her journal as an outlet to “write it out” when she was down. I remember her letters to MacMillan as much more positive, but then I‘d imagine those were disproportionate in the other direction, with a more positive bias! None of these sources will give a purely balanced or unbiased view of LMM‘s life, but ⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)…like you, I love reading the complete journals for myself, without someone else‘s filter. I think the Mary Rubio bio made those snide remarks about LMM‘s grief. I pulled it off the shelf because I wanted to find & be indignant about it again, but I can‘t find where she makes the comparison. The cat in question was Good Luck, so we haven‘t gotten to the 40-page cat-mourning entry yet! But I completely agree—LMM‘s grief over Frede is still⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …so evident throughout these pages, years & years after Frede‘s death. It‘s so unfair to say LMM was more upset about the cat.

Yes, that detailed description of the Mammoth Caves was fascinating! And how fun to read about places you‘re familiar with! That whole trip was so interesting to read about—I cracked up over them all trying hot dogs for the first time.

I found the actual reproduction of the relative‘s journal rather tedious ⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …(I was glad there was just a sample of it!), but LMM‘s commentary, with all the memories it brought back for her, was so touching. I was struck by the 100-years-on phenomenon as well! I hadn‘t thought about correlating it to my own age—I‘ve actually been doing the math over and over to figure out how old LMM is at various points. It would be so much easier to just remember she‘s 104 years older than me. 😆 I hear you on relating to ⬇ (edited) 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)…LMM‘s nostalgia over childhood! I follow a nature photographer on FB who lives literally up the road from my childhood home in England…and I sink into that nostalgia whenever I see her photos. In the midst of adult responsibilities, there‘s something so attractive about the simplicity of childhood!

LMM is SUCH a good storyteller. I loved her story about how Dixie & Luck were following her to the Post Office and Luck got scared into the ⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …bushes—and Dixie was “such a gentleman” to wait for Luck even though he loved going to the Post Office. LMM has such a knack for noticing moments like that and bringing them to life on the page—it takes her journals beyond just the mundane, for me.

I‘m with you on the p. 392 footnote!!! I interpreted that sentence the same way you did, and found it terribly presumptuous of the editor to claim there was a word missing! ⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …The church union vote was super frustrating to me, too. I understand the impulse to say “we‘re not so different from each other, why don‘t our denominations join together”—which in itself is commendable—but how could they not see that the practical outworking of it would be a NIGHTMARE? There‘ve been deep divisions in churches I‘ve been at over petty things like the freaking color of the paint in the sanctuary (don‘t get me started). ⬇ 3mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d)…How would trying to merge three different denominations with their own positions on theology, worship, etc. NOT create deep disagreements and differences, let alone exacerbate already-existing ones?!?

@TheAromaofBooks Also: no need to apologize for your rambles!! When I saw how many “conversation” notifications I had in Litsy, I thought: “Oh, good, Sarah must have commented about the LMM Journals!” 😁 3mo

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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
———
Maud is always so relatable. 💜
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMJournals

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Daisey So relatable! 3mo

TheAromaofBooks For real!!! 3mo

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! 3mo

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!! 3mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks It‘s all good stuff, just a lot! Zoo trip all day yesterday, then today: prayer group, church, potluck… and now I have a small lull before a concert my husband is playing this evening. I‘m so tired 😆 3mo

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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) 3mo

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?? 3mo

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) 3mo

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!! 3mo

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. 3mo

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