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I‘m having so much fun reading LMM‘s Christmas stories! We‘ll finish those on Christmas Eve, then pick up our regular buddy reading starting 12/29. Above is our #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead schedule through mid-February, including two for #LMMReread, the last bit of Vol. 3 for #LMMJournals, and #LMMAdjacent read: The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. Let me know if you‘d like to be tagged for any or all of the above. All are welcome! ⬇

I downloaded all of the Anne of Green Gables books and am reading them on my Kindle at night.

The first 3 books are re-reads for me as I have this awesome vinrage box set that my grandma gave me when I was a kid 😊

There was much about Anne of the Island that had slipped my mind, so I'm glad to have read it again.

Anne's House of Dreams is next, and I'm certain it will be new to me.

I just love Anne so much 💕

Slowly making my way through this series! #bookfourof2024

“I‘m afraid to speak or move for fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence.” This book will live forever in my heart. I have vowed to give a copy of this book to every young girl who is going out into the world on her own for the first time. If ever a book could be a friend, this one would be. With its lessons of pain and joy that comes with becoming oneself and building a life in this world. #52challenge

I love visiting Green Gables and Anne.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#classics

I read once this waaay back. Still such a fun book

I‘d forgotten how much I love Aunt Jimsie! #rereadingsummer

#firstlinefridays #rereadingsummer

I‘m back on my Anne of Green Gables kick this summer. Currently enjoying my coffee and willing my garden to grow. I am dying for Anne to go back to Gilbert and admit her love. Wearing his lilies at her graduation was the sweetest of signs.

#summerreading #audiobooks #canadianauthor

I love so, so, many things about this series… not least of which is that it takes me back to a time before cliffhanger endings were commonplace. It‘s so satisfying that each individual book ends on an uplifting note. I‘m always happy when I close the cover, and I‘m always anticipating the next part of the story sweetly not tensely. #20in4 @Andrew65

“Harvest is ended, and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.

#FirstLineFridays #EasterOMC #PhotoChallenge9

This went by so fast! I swear, I could hear the music from the end of the 1985 series while I read the last chapter. ❤️

This was such a fun reread of an old favourite. I was trying to read it as slowly as possible, avoiding listening to my audiobook when I usually did, because I didn't want it to end. It's such a lovely story about college years, living and studying with your friends, a introduction to Phil -- one of my all time Anne of Green Gables universe characters -- , and an incredibly epic love story combined with a lot of self growth!! Anne + Gilbert = 💜

"I have a dream" he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me it could never come true. I dream of a home, with a hearthfire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends and you, Anne... I asked you a question over 2 years ago Anne. If I ask you again today will you give me a different answer?"

"I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school."

Most romantic proposal ever? ?

"Gilbert had a sudden vision of Anne, arrayed in a frilly green gown, with the virginal curves of arms and throat slipping out of it and white stars shining against the coils of her ruddy hair. The vision made him catch his breath."

This is the most explicitly sexy moment of the series ?? I'm surprised they published this at the turn of the century in a sequel to a children's book??

"I love 'em," said Dorothy. "They're so nice and selfish. Dogs are too good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. Cats are gloriously human."

Lol Roy's tomboy sister sounds like a cat lesbian. Also I wholeheartedly agree; one of the things I loved my dog who recently passed away was how much she was a cat in her soul. ?

"Anne felt very old and mature and wise, which showed how young she was."

Isn't this a truth still so relevant today?

"You're an idiot Anne Shirley...You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it?"

I love Phil, she's a great character. Also, she's right Anne is an idiot for turning down Gilbert!! What a fool!!

@wideeyedreader and I did some thrifting today and found this 1950s copy of Anne of the Island. The dust jacket is a little rough and the picture makes us laugh but at only $1.00 y‘all know it had to come home with me.

This completes my January #bookspin and was the best in the series so far.

@TheAromaofBooks

It‘s laundry day over here so let‘s see how far I can get in this one.

So far Anne of the Island is better than the first two in the series.

#joysofjune @Andrew65

Let‘s see if I can fall back in love with reading….

#joysOfJune @Andrew65

31 Oct-13 Nov 2021 (audiobook)
Finally, Anne agrees to marry Gilbert and Trix and I can be happy and read the rest of the series when she is a little older. Being a helpless romantic, she was convinced from the moment Gilbert appeared that Anne would marry him, but Roy Gardiner did have her scared for a little while. Davey, as always, provided some comic relief.

“Why, I have nine grades in my school and I have to teach a little of everything, from investigating the interiors of earthworms to the study of the solar system. My youngest pupil is four—his mother sends him to school to 'get him out of the way'—and my oldest twenty—it 'suddenly struck him' that it would be easier to go to school and get an education than follow the plough any longer.” #grade #QuotsySep21

September #DoubleSpin is done! For some reason I didn‘t realize there were more than 3 Anne books so I‘m happy to continue the series after this. 🧡 So close to a bingo!

Davy is a whole mood lol

All are off to college or starting jobs, and there is that everyday humdrum of that in this book which was a nice change of pace between Anne's interactions with everyone. Not to mention the new introductions of characters that round out this book's cast.

But I'm not going to lie. I came into this with the full intent of more Anne x Gilbert and I got it.
Thanks to @SerialReader for having this one available.

“I hope no #great sorrow ever will come to you, Anne," said Gilbert, who could not connect the idea of sorrow with the vivid, joyous creature beside him, unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.” #QuotsyJul21

“Marilla's was a rather prim and colorless epistle, severely innocent of gossip or emotion. Yet somehow it conveyed to Anne a whiff of the wholesome, simple life at Green Gables, with its #savor of ancient peace, and the steadfast abiding love that was there for her.” #QuotsyJul21

Book 3 in the Anne of Green Gables series.

Should probably get back to this series soon

#nameinthetitle #series

“#March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.” #QuotsyCatchup #QuotsyMar21

This was a reread, several times over. Each Anne Shirley story is better than the last! Since I have not read further on in the series, I look forward to reading the next book sometime soon! 4.5⭐

1. Currently reading the tagged book and I'm loving it so far. It's only a few chapters but yup loving it.
2. The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. I got to hear her the other day and her passion and lively spirit is what made me add this to my growing list.
3. Oh man... The Roommate by Rosie Danan which I just finished and am not over yet.

Page 56:

Ruby Gillis wrote a gushing epistle deploring Anne's abscence, assuring her she was horribly missed in everything, asking what the Redmond “fellows“ were like, and filling the rest with accounts of her own harrowing experiences with her numerous admirers.

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“The sun had set and the wind had died down. A pale #chilly moon looked out behind a bank of purple clouds in the west. The sky faded out, but the strip of yellow along the western horizon grew brighter and fiercer, as if all the stray gleams of light were concentrating in one spot; the distant hills, rimmed with priest-like firs, stood out in dark distinctness against it.” #QuotsyFeb21

“Well, I've had my first #proposal. I supposed it would come some day—but I certainly never thought it would be by proxy. It's awfully funny—and yet there's a sting in it, too, somehow.” #QuotsyFeb21

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Anne of the Island Discussion Part 3

3a. What will stay with you the most from reading Anne of the Island? Any new realizations, quotes you loved, etc.?
3b. Thinking back on the book as a whole, is there anything you feel this text calling you to do? Is there something Anne or another character has inspired you to think about or act on?

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Anne of the Island Discussion - Part 2

2a. What did you think of Roy Gardner as a love interest for Anne?
2b. How did you feel about the way Anne and Gilbert‘s relationship progresses over the course of the book?
2c. What do you think of how Gilbert has developed as a character, and as a friend and partner for Anne?

Taking a little break from watching inauguration coverage to post questions for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead - Anne of the Island discussion!

1a. There are so many wonderful little happenings during Anne‘s college years. What are your favorite scenes in this book?
1b. Romance is a much larger theme in this book, and we see Anne receive several marriage proposals. Who was your favorite rejected suitor?

I wasn‘t liking this book at all for perhaps the first third. I found it choppy and trying too hard to be in multiple places at once without telling us much about any place. But then it settled into itself and I enjoyed it, other than the overly saccharine but entirely expected ending. I look forward to heading to Windy Poplars after our discussion!

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I so enjoyed this re-read of Anne of the Island. I have such a soft spot for the girls at Patty‘s Place and all of Anne‘s inadvertent romantic misadventures. I noticed this time just how much Anne grows in this volume—in both maturity and self-knowledge. I see so many of my girlhood ideals in Anne, and realize now that‘s where a lot of my ideas of romance come from. 😊 Also: I didn‘t remember how awful this cover was!! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

We're almost done with Anne of the Island Chapter-a-Day! I have to admit, I might NEED to finish it tonight! 😆 Our wrap-up discussion is Wed. 1/20. I'll post questions in the afternoon (Pacific Time); feel free to jump in whenever you're able.

Chapter-a-day for Windy Poplars starts Thurs. 1/21. The chapters/letters are so short, would people be interested in doing 2 per day? Let me know your preference in the comments! #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

“What are you going to do with that ten dollars, Anne? Let‘s all go up town and get drunk,” suggested Phil.

I WANT THIS SCENE. Seriously: Anne, Phil, Stella, Pris, AND Aunt Jimsie, gettin‘ drunk up town. 🤣🥂#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I‘m lagging behind in the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead! 😆

I just picked this one up today but I‘m still very much enjoying my reread of this series.

@BarbaraJean

After I posted about my list of favorite worst proposals last night in conjunction with Anne‘s “Will yeh hev me?” proposal, and @meghathecloud and @TheAromaofBooks mentioned Billy‘s proposal via his sister... this came up on my FB memories today. 😂 #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

“Will yeh hev me?”
“Wh—a—t!” gasped Anne.
“Will yeh hev me?”
“Do you mean—marry you?” queried poor Anne feebly.
“Yep.”
“Why, I‘m hardly acquainted with you,” cried Anne indignantly.
“But yeh‘d git acquainted with me after we was married,” said Sam.

🤣Anne‘s proposals just get better. I have a list of my favorite worst proposals in fiction—from St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre to Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice—this one, too. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Here's the last daily schedule for Anne of the Island Chapter-a-Day! Discussion will be Wed. 1/20. (Inauguration Day here in the U.S.🎉Can't come fast enough!) I keep getting behind on chapter-a-day, but I've decided it's a subconscious desire to read more in each sitting.😉I love this stage in Anne's life, with all her college adventures & romantic woes. How's everyone enjoying their reading? Who's doing chapter a day and who's bingeing it?

ONE more #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead post tonight. I 💜 Marilla & Mrs. Lynde so much in this chapter: their disappointment about Anne‘s romantic refusal (do I need to talk around potential spoilers for a book published in 1915?!) and Marilla‘s feeling that “something in the universal scheme of things had gone sadly awry.” They know Anne so well and are able to see the situation much more clearly than she can, but are determined not to interfere.💜

“She had once told Roy a funny story—and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run.”
I understand how Anne gets swept up in her romantic ideals, but I still can‘t imagine preferring a melancholy inscrutable hero to a man with a sense of humor. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead