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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”?

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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. 4h

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. 4h

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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.⬇ 4h

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. 4h

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. 4h

lauraisntwilder Knowing how often LMM had to entertain clergymen, I enjoyed the part where Emily asks Lofty John's priest for help even more. 4h

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread Emily of New Moon
As I was reading, I had a couple ideas I thought would be great for discussion questions. I was going to get up & note them down, but I was lazy and told myself of course I‘d remember. Well. I forgot. So. General discussion post! (I do have a couple of other questions I‘ll post separately)
What are your thoughts on Emily of New Moon? What themes, characters, scenes, or quotes stand out to you?

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lauraisntwilder I was struck by how much Emily wants to obey Aunt Elizabeth. She is amazingly loyal and sweet. 4h

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Lindy

The Game of Giants | Marion Douglas

#Queer #LGBTQ #trans history, #Indigenous lit, #CanLit & #comics in this 07/11/25 Friday Reads #booktube episode

https://youtu.be/dPPH51rSw-g

Eggbeater Your Magpie Reads is wonderful. I'm going to check out the Game of Giants and the Trans History. Thanks! 1d

Lindy @Eggbeater I am glad to hear you like my channel and I hope you enjoy the books! ☺️ 1d

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Fr3NcHtOaSt

The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel | Craig Davidson

Just picked this up today at my local Barnes and Noble. It‘s a coming of age story more about your own ghosts than literal ghosts. I‘m a sucker for these type of books. It‘s a similar vein to McCammon‘s Boys Life.

#TheSaturdayNightGhostClub #TSNGC #craigDavidson #book #novel #comingofagestory

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Schwifty

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture | Douglas Coupland

so-so

This novel is okay; I‘m not sure how else to pinpoint my feelings about it. As a late Gen Xer myself, I couldn‘t resist reading the novel that lent the name. The main characters seem to convey big ideas in parables to each other, the aim of which is to commiserate on the feeling of living in a future of diminished career prospects, boomer criticism, apocalyptic war and ecocide, rampant ads and commercialism. Can confirm; I relate well.

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history,” said Dean.

“…like all female creatures, you form your opinions by your feelings.”

Every time I read this, I discover more reasons to hate Dean Priest. #LMMReread #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

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Trashcanman I‘ve never met a wise man, if so it‘s a woman. 3d

TheAromaofBooks On top of being a total creep, he's sooooo condescending 3d

kwmg40 He definitely comes across as a creep! 3d

rubyslippersreads 😡🤢 3d

lauraisntwilder The. Worst. 3d

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ShyBookOwl

Fight Night | Miriam Toews

🤣🤣🤣
Had to share.
Tagged the last book that made me feel this way.

ChaoticMissAdventures If it doesn't make you devastated is there even a point?? 😂 5d

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 5d

KadaGul 💯 Relatable. 🩵🤣🤍 5d

Blueberry Love it 😄 5d

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Lindy

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman | Niko Stratis

pick

The author reads her own memoir-in-essays in this #audiobook about growing up in a hyper-masculine environment, working in her dad‘s glass repair shop in Whitehorse Yukon. Music helped her survive and to eventually come out as a #trans woman. A tender tribute to her father and to the ways music can save us. #LGBTQ #CanLit

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BarbaraJean

Emily of New Moon | Lucy Maud Montgomery

Goodness, I love Father Cassidy so much. I wish we had more of him than we get!!

How is your reading coming along this week, Kindred Spirits? What are your favorite parts in this week‘s chapters? #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread

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JenlovesJT47 Thank you for reminding me!! I absolutely love this trilogy but have only read it once. Will try my hardest to get to it this week but I‘m so behind on everything. 😭 1w

JenlovesJT47 And I love Emily, she‘s so feisty. 1w

kwmg40 I love the interaction with Father Cassidy too! 1w

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BarbaraJean @JenlovesJT47 I get it! No pressure, I know how busy things can get and how the self-assigned reading piles up 😆 1w

BarbaraJean @kwmg40 He's such a delight! And I wish he could be more part of Emily's life. She needs more adults like this! 1w

TheAromaofBooks Father Cassidy - finally a good adult!!

One thing that struck me this week was how much of this book is actually from Emily's first-person POV. Compared to the Anne books, where we don't get anything from Anne's direct POV (except in Windy Poplars, which hadn't been published at this point). However, this mixture of journals and narration does remind me of the format of Rilla. I really appreciate how, despite writing a story about another ⬇ 6d

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) orphan girl, LMM has created a character completely different from Anne. Imaginative and creative, yes, but Emily is really just so so different from Anne in so many ways, beyond just her circumstances. Even at this young age (younger than we meet Anne) she's ambitious and goal-oriented vs Anne who did love learning and studying, but also at some level seemed to do it for the joy of learning more than because she had a specific career ⬇ 6d

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) in mind. While Emily does sometimes get in a bit of a temper, she also tends to keep things in more until she can “write it out“ vs Anne's temper flashes and chatterbox tendencies. All that to say, even though I don't really objectively like this book - it's just too sad for me to really like it - I do appreciate LMM's incredible skill in character creation. 6d

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