An Invitation to Read The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery
I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s 1926 novel The Blue Castle this fall. Would anyone like to join me? When …
Category Archives: L.M. Montgomery
“She knew that a hard struggle was before her”: Emily’s Quest
At the beginning of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily’s Quest (1927), Emily Starr has “very clear-cut ideas of what she was going …
“I have to write”: Emily Climbs
In L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Climbs (1925), one of the novels Emily Starr reads is The Children of the Abbey (1796), …
“I am important to myself”: Emily of New Moon
“I am important to myself,” says Emily Byrd Starr when she’s told by her late father’s housekeeper that she ought …
Rereading L.M. Montgomery’s “Emily” Novels
I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s “Emily” novels this year, along with Naomi of Consumed by Ink and other bloggers. …
On Not Skipping from September to November
Inspired by Christy Ann Conlin’s guest post on “The Sweet Exhilaration of Solitude,” I spent some time in the Halifax …
Spring in Rainbow Valley
I spent last weekend in Prince Edward Island and one of the books I read was L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley, …
L.M. Montgomery and the Halifax Public Gardens
“She’ll feel awful bad if her flowers get frosted, especially them dahlias. Octavia sets such store by her dahlias.” In …
October at Ingleside
“It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” I, too, am “glad I live …
Anne’s House of Dreams and the “great Canadian novel”
“Young Dr. Blythe” is a very busy man and he’s often away from the little white house he and Anne …
