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The Things That Wake Us Up: Week One in Avonlea (opens the original)
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Discussion QuestionsWhat was your first impression of Anne? Did you find yourself understanding Marilla’s hesitation, or did you immediately take Anne’s side?Matthew and Marilla’s mistake turns out to be a rather fortunate one. Can you think of another moment in these chapters when something going wrong creates an unexpected opportunity?Do you think the Cuthberts actually needed Anne as much as Anne needed them? What does each of them gain from her arrival at Green Gables?Mrs. Lynde
A Hundred Books Later (opens the original)
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I’d like to preface this essay by reminding my dear readers that there is no perfect way to read. I have not “achieved more” this year than my friends who chose to, or were only able to, read ten books. It isn’t about the number. I’ve come to realize that the I need to read! impulse is known by all of us, and we simply address it differently.Why did I read one hundred books?It’s simply because reading is part of my identity. I can’t wait long between books. I’m not trying to show off. I find a k
What ‘Book of the Month’ Taught Me (opens the original)
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Last December, I got an email.I was at my friend’s apartment in Chelsea at the time. It had finally climbed above freezing, but it was a gray, grumpy day, and I was hiding inside on my laptop.At the time, I was four months’ out from the publication of my fourth book, Love Is an Algorithm. The book was being published in the US and across Commonwealth countries simultaneously, but my mind was on the Commonwealth publication. I had a wedding in Melbourne in February, and I was going to meet the Te
After Anne: L.M. Montgomery’s Other Love Story (opens the original)
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A couple of days ago, I shared my interview with Logan Steiner, author of After Anne. Her novel is a fictionalized imagining of the life of L. M. Montgomery, the Canadian author best known for Anne of Green Gables and the unforgettable Anne Shirley.After Anne reveals a truth about Montgomery that is not often considered: she spent much of her life struggling with depression, even during the years in which she was writing about the charismatic and dreamy Anne Shirley.<div class="subscription-widg
Tea With Stephanie Dray, Author of ‘A Founding Mother’ (opens the original)
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A Big ImpactStephanie Dray has built a remarkably successful career writing historical fiction. Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams is her third novel about women of the colonial era. Like her two previous colonial-era novels, America’s First Daughter and My Dear Hamilton, Founding Mothe
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