Comments on: Classic Wednesday: Lucy Maud

By: brina

brina — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:22:28 +0000

Oh, I love that book! In fact, it’s sitting here in front of me right now, ‘cos I had to move all my books off the shelves in the other room to prepare for the electrical contractors. Grr.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:14:20 +0000

My favorite Montgomery is the little known The Blue Castle. It was a total case of right book right time. I was feeling very single (I was 21 or so at the time) and felt like nothing was quite going the way I wanted. I was also in need of something to read having just finished the last one I was in (I read multiple books at once to avoid this).
It’s about a girl named Valancy who is, at 29, single, friendless and the joke of her family. Upon recieving a bill of health which condemned her to death within a year, she set about living her life to the fullest, including finding a way out of her family home.

The ending is a bit obvious, but when I finished it, I felt better about life.
What more can you ask for?

By: brina

brina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:33:41 +0000

Emily dearest,

The Emily series is my favorite, too. It’s funny; Anne went and grew up a bit too much for me (when I was ten, at least) after book three. But you’re right about the New Moon series being nice and trim.

Whenever I’m in a mood, and I want to cry my eyes out, I just read Emily’s Quest. Because really, that one is a tearjerker. I think LMM wrote it just to make us all weep for a couple hundred pages straight.

By: emily

emily — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:21:28 +0000

not to be predictable at all, nomenclaturally speaking, but i think my favourite lucy maud series would be emily of new moon, all the way.

i loved anne, but the emily books were the ones i re-read till they were tattered, and accidentally left out under the swing-set and re-read even after they were waterlogged.

i also like the trimness of a simple trilogy – never overstepping the story’s reach. none of this george lucas crap though that’s ever so slightly off topic and probably belongs in a review of indiana jones …

By: Adam P.

Adam P. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:33:57 +0000

At least two of these stories are in the public domain (in the US) and available online free of charge: Marcella's Reward and The Running Away of Chester.

By: brina

brina — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:11:44 +0000

Hmm. You know, I like A Tangled Web, but it didn’t strike a chord with me as much as her other books did. Even, say, Magic for Marigold was more enchanting for me. But I am glad to see that there are other LMM freaks out there, who, like me, have hunkered down and zoomed through even her most obscure works.

Then again, if I were to conduct a poll, it would be like so:

Which do Lucy Maud series do you prefer?

A. Anne of Green Gables
B. Emily of New Moon
C. Pat of Silverbush

I think the answer is obvious, but I’m willing to bet lots of folks will go in a very different direction from the one I’d choose …

By: Olivia

Olivia — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:46:26 +0000

Her best book is the little known A Tangled Web. So sad, yet everything ends perfectly happily. It actually made me CRY! And I never cry. Ever. I am nicknamed the Ice Queen for a reason. Yet the book is also hilariously funny. Probably my favorite book of alll time.

By: brina

brina — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:35:39 +0000

Maybe LMM realized that one day there would be a terribly embarrassing television show called “I Love Lucy,” which, while classic, is something I can’t watch without wanting to cry for poor Lucille Ball.

What is AoGG? OMG. Anne of Green Gables? There’s a THEME PARK??? We so totally have to go. You and me, Miss Jami B.

By the way, folks, I’d like to introduce Miss Jami as YA New York’s new film correspondent! Jami will be reviewing film adaptations of YA literature. Of course we’ll introduce her more formally down the road, along with a complete bio of this LA screenwriter extraordinaire.

By: Jami B

Jami B — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:27:18 +0000

I’ve read that LMM liked to be called Maud, and I always found that fascinating … like she REJECTED her inner Lucy.

Also, has anyone here been to the AoGG theme park in Japan? So weird … so fascinating …