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koalathebear

Book: The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery

Sep 17, 2005 01:18

I kind of accidentally hijacked a conversation at dangermousie's LJ and seem to have killed the conversation (eep!) so I thought I'd better take my love of this book back to my own journal.

Wikipedia's description of the book is really bad:

The Blue Castle is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who is best known for her novel Anne of Green ( Read more... )

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Comments 10

Book weissman September 16 2005, 19:15:24 UTC

That lbooks looks really interesting, It is the type of book I read when I get into a rut with SciFi or when I am staring at a tremendiou amount of plane time (Newark to Bejing or the like)

Cat Allergies huh! (Sounds Familiar) - sneeze

Bob W

cherryblosomjen September 16 2005, 20:23:37 UTC

Koala, you have such a beautiful way of expressing yourself. It's obvious from this and some of your earlier posts that you are a book lover.

I think I would read this just because you've made it sound so rich. I admit, I am one of the many who love LM Montgomery. I think my favorite, besides the Anne novels, was "Story Girl."

koalathebear September 17 2005, 00:42:32 UTC

Oooh have you read Blue Castle too? As to Anne, I loved her too. Gilbert Blythe has to have been one of my earliest crushes on a fictional character ;)

dangermousie September 16 2005, 23:46:58 UTC

Oh, I just reread it, and what an understated, touching gem it is...

The fact that Valancy is so excited because Barney merely likes her is...guuuh.

koalathebear September 16 2005, 23:48:44 UTC

Woohoo, see everybody! The book exists! I didn't dream it up! ;)

Delusions forg September 17 2005, 13:33:46 UTC

No you didn't dream it up or make it up because you /made/ me read it. And I was glad you did and I have read it a few times since that you haven't made me do.

I loved your retelling as it brought the story back to me. It is more frank and open then her other books

Re: Delusions koalathebear September 17 2005, 13:35:44 UTC

Meep. I just remembered that I persuadedmade you read it. I'm glad you liked it though :)

winterspel October 31 2005, 06:03:05 UTC

Thank you, dear, for getting me to re-read this wonderful book. I've been wiping tears away...

cutemara August 4 2007, 02:12:47 UTC

Hi there!

I stumbled on your journal when I was looking for Scorpius/Rose fanfiction...and ended up here!

I grew up reading the Anne books and the Emily books. I think my favourite was Rilla of Ingleside. Just last month, I discovered Project Gutenberg and went crazy downloading any and all L.M. Montgomery and found myself reading The Blue Castle and I absolutely fell in love with it! I'm so glad I didn't find it when I was growing up, I don't think I would have been able to 'feel' it in the same way as I did now that I'm older. It was so very poignant. I was especially touched by Valency's feelings of pain and inadequacy when compared to Olive's 'perfection'. And the mud pile! I think that part just broke my heart for her!

And yes, I wanted to move to Muskoka after reading it too!

koalathebear August 7 2007, 11:47:50 UTC

Ah ... Rilla ... I have written about that book, too and the ending of that always felt like such a cliff hanger to me even though of course Rilla must have got together with Ken :D

Valancy was just so lovable, awkward and clever without knowing it. Montgomery painted such an evocative picture of Muskoka, beautiful and idealistic without being unrealistic. :)