tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post5673317529071076147..comments2009-01-10T14:01:55.508-08:00Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08772667430500306088noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-81406536301312355272009-01-10T14:01:00.000-08:002009-01-10T14:01:00.000-08:00Wow, it's hard to believe that the person described in the biography is the same one who wrote such wonderful books. Maybe I will just stick to reading her books and loving them.Framedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703547279309902320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-90118067784889339952009-01-10T09:28:00.000-08:002009-01-10T09:28:00.000-08:00Several years ago I read another bio of Montgomery (after I'd devoured all the "Anne" books.) I was disappointed with it because the author suggested that Montgomery wrote the sequels because the audience demanded it and not because she particularly wanted to. I think it was even implied that she hated Anne by the time it was all over. I hated to read about LMM in such a negative light.hopeinbrazilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05842290165385823751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-76276177837115484532009-01-07T12:32:00.000-08:002009-01-07T12:32:00.000-08:00Noel - Yup, that's the impression I had from descriptions of the journals which is why I have yet to read them. (I do have the first volume on order though and am eagerly awaiting its arrival on my doorstep!) If I had the money to spend on something happy or sad I always went with the happy. That's still my inclination but I figured I really need to be true to Montgomery and read about her in her own words. But it's with a little bit of hesitation that I do so!Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08772667430500306088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-58987912252879890162009-01-07T10:55:00.000-08:002009-01-07T10:55:00.000-08:00Oh, Carrie, you have not read Montgomery until you've read her journals. <BR/><BR/>They're not easy. I read Vol. 1 when I was 16, and wrote in my own journal: <BR/><BR/>“There is something wholly depressing in reading Montgomery’s journals—her existence seemed so dark and bleak, one intermittently interrupted by golden days attempting a parley with life, when it should—could—have been the other way around … joyous days, weeks, months, brimming with content[ment] and ambition, with an expected “white night” slipping in between cracks, as is its custom with all lives. But not with the cruelness she so vividly portrays in her entries, her very aching soul laid bare in its misery and pain. And how horrible to have rejected the one hope offered her—the only true hope that could save her—and yet still search for reason and meaning in this weary world.”Noel De Vrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461116221338023290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-43547815927716596442009-01-06T16:08:00.000-08:002009-01-06T16:08:00.000-08:00I read this a long time ago when I did a research paper on LMM. I remember some of what you write about, but I think I was too full of teenage years angst to realize much of what you're pointing out. ; )<BR/><BR/>I hope you find a better bio of her. I've read the first volume of her journals (or skimmed and read), but again, it's been so long ago that I don't remember much.<BR/><BR/>I'm eager to read about what else you uncover!Amy @ Hope Is the Wordhttp://hopeistheword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-89910684580952632022009-01-06T14:33:00.000-08:002009-01-06T14:33:00.000-08:00Mmmm...interesting and I am sure frustrating too. Gats, it's hard sometimes reading other's interpretations of someone whom we admire. <BR/>I will indeed stay tuned! Thank you for the review!~teachmom~http://www.blogger.com/profile/08941155531027401974noreply@blogger.com