Monday Reads [13]

Item: The Blue Castle
Author: Christine

Posted June 8, 2020 by Christine in Monday Reads / 3 Comments /

The Blue Castle Published by Sourcebooks Fire by L.M. Montgomery
on 1926
Genres: Fiction, Classics, YA, Historical, Romance, Children's, Adult
Pages: 249
Source: Purchased
Format: Paperback
Reading Challenges: Beat the Backlist 2020, Summer 2020 Reading Assignment
Also by this author: Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon , Emily Climbs , The Golden Road , Emily's Quest, The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush , Mistress Pat , A Tangled Web, Magic for Marigold, Jane of Lantern Hill, Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939
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ISBN: 1402289367

An unforgettable story of courage and romance. Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love?
Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.

Welcome to Monday Reads! Where I just spend a few minutes sharing with you my current read and a snippet or two from my current chapter. Please let me know what you’re reading right now, too!

I haven’t done one of these in a few weeks… I’ve been a little busy here at home. 🙂

So far, this book is an absolute DELIGHT! I love LMM and this one is just so much different than her earlier works–which I LOVE!!!

“Fear is the original sin,” wrote John Foster. Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that someone is afraid of something. It is a cold, slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading. “

Valancy shut Magic of Wings and stood up. She would go and see Dr. Trent.

Page 29, The Blue Castle

“I’ve had nothing but a second-hand existence,” decided Valancy. “All the great emotions of life have passed me by. I’ve never even had grief. And have I ever really loved anybody? Do I really love Mother? No, I don’t. That’s the truth, whether it is disgraceful or not. I don’t love her–I’ve never loved her. What’s worse, I don’t even like her. So I don’t know anything about any kind of love…”

Page 51, The Blue Castle

“The greatest happiness,” said Valancy suddenly and distinctly, “is to sneeze when you want to.”

Everybody stared. Nobody felt it safe to say anything. Was Valancy trying to be funny?

Page 66, The Blue Castle

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About L.M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.

The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.

Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

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