Comments on Reading to Know: The Story Girl, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

And this is why I didn't read your review unti...

2012-01-24T18:55:07.147-08:00

And this is why I didn't read your review until I had written my own. I love how you talk about Montgomery's books. You see so much more in them than I do. That's probably why I keep trying to like them. I guess I'm trying to see what you do.

You almost make me want to go back and finish reading The Story Girl. Almost. :)

I haven't read this one. I'll have to see ...

2012-01-13T18:16:22.935-08:00

I haven't read this one. I'll have to see if my library carries it!

I've been meaning to ask you... I've seen you post that C.S. Lewis quote a number of times and I'm quite interested in it. Have you written a post about why exactly it's a good idea to reread books? I'm curious as to why Lewis takes this stance.

Hope you have a great weekend!
~Cassandra

This is my favourite book (second to Anne of Green...

2012-01-10T08:20:05.397-08:00

This is my favourite book (second to Anne of Green Gables). I had difficulty getting hold of a copy in England. And brought mine on Amazon (it was shipped from America). The book takes me back to my own childhood when everything had a rosy tint to it. It's a book I can read and re-read.

I LOVE that last quote! I think that might just ge...

2012-01-09T14:34:58.853-08:00

I LOVE that last quote! I think that might just get framed for the play room. :)

Great review, Carrie. We watched the first episod...

2012-01-09T10:34:24.716-08:00

Great review, Carrie. We watched the first episode of Avonlea last week! My girls loved it and we're do disappointed when the rest of our borrowed DVDs wouldn't play.

I'm struggling right now to get through the book I'm reading so I can move on to A Tangled Web!

I have to special order thid one through the libra...

2012-01-09T10:09:28.638-08:00

I have to special order thid one through the library...even though they have the next book.

Love the quotes.

Whoops! I meant to write "strengths and wea...

2012-01-09T07:53:08.940-08:00

Whoops! I meant to write "*strengths* and weaknesses."

Your comments on that quote about vanity remind me...

2012-01-09T07:51:54.971-08:00

Your comments on that quote about vanity remind me of what C.S. Lewis wrote in The Screwtape Letters: “By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”

Another quote of his where he talks about this is here:
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking our yourself less."

The modern philosopher Peter Kreeft
has echoed these sentiments: Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. "Humility is self-forgetfulness."

I hope you don't mind all the quotes, this has just been something I've been thinking on so you struck a nerve with me. :) It is so easy (at least for me) to insist on self-put downs thinking that will make me humble. But true humility is recognizing our faults and weaknesses indifferently.

I also liked the quote about "fairyland", although I wouldn't necessarily call it that (fairies scare me). I have noticed that when I was younger their was a part of my imagination open that I don't know if I can ever access anymore.

This one is unfamiliar to me, but interesting! It ...

2012-01-09T06:39:45.232-08:00

This one is unfamiliar to me, but interesting! It will be a good one to explore once I get through all the Anne books.