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L.M. Montgomery Challenge

L.M. Montgomery Reading Challenge 2018

January 7, 2018 by Amy Leave a Comment

January means a lot of things, but one of the best things it means to me is time to hunker down with a L.M. Montgomery on the nightstand or in the read-aloud basket (or both!).  Carrie has been hosting this challenge since 2009 (!), and I have been with her since the beginning (!!).    … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: L.M. Montgomery Challenge

Read Aloud Roundup–March 2017

March 30, 2017 by Amy 8 Comments

Check, check, check, check . . .is this thing on? Is anybody still out there?   Well, it has been quite a March at the House of Hope, with sickness after sickness after sickness punctuated with some travel for Steady Eddie and. . .and. . .and. . . You get the picture. We have been … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: fiction picture books, L.M. Montgomery Challenge, read aloud roundup, The Year of Anne

Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

November 29, 2016 by Amy 3 Comments

  My girls and I finished the sixth book in our Year of Anne, Anne’s House of Dreams, a few weeks ago, amidst tears (mine) and laughter and smiles (the girls’). Anne’s House of Dreams might be my favorite Anne book.  Might be.  (Wait. That’s sort of like picking a favorite child.  Impossible!  It’s definitely … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: L.M. Montgomery Challenge, Read Aloud Thursday, The Year of Anne, Young Adult Fiction

Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

September 17, 2016 by Amy 2 Comments

My girls and I finally finished up Anne of Windy Poplars after a very protracted read-aloud experience which involved reading aloud using Face Time on more than one occasion.  We went into reading this novel knowing that it really isn’t a favorite of any one of us; Lulu even admitted to having skimmed Anne’s letters … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, L.M. Montgomery Challenge, Read Aloud Thursday, The Year of Anne, Young Adult Fiction

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

June 18, 2016 by Amy 4 Comments

My girls and I are in the middle of our Year of Anne, and we just finished book three, Anne of the Island.   It has been twenty-plus years since I read this one, but I had plenty of fond memories of it, and I have to say that it mostly lived up to what … [Read more…]

Posted in: Adult Fiction, Books Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, L.M. Montgomery Challenge, Read Aloud Thursday, The Year of Anne, Young Adult Fiction
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2019 Reading Challenge

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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer


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