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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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