I can never remember which things happen in The Story Girl and which in The Golden Road, except that The Golden Road has Our Magazine and [spoiler that might not be a spoiler]. Have they gone to visit Peg Bowen yet? Has Doomsday happened?
L. M. Montgomery claimed that The Story Girl was her favorite of her books, and it's easy to see why -- it was easy to write because so much of it had already been written in one form or another, and she was in good spirits generally. It was a fun, low-pressure project after the huge success of the first two Anne books and the unsatisfying ordeal of churning out Kilmeny for a demanding publisher.
The Pat books have a similar structure -- with many, many stories told by Judy Plum between RL incidents. The bulk of them is very cozy for the most part, but with Pat's anxiety always seeping in. They're set in their own present day, rather than a nostalgic past like The Story Girl, but of course they're drenched in pre-emptive nostalgia anyway.
I'm sorry for my inability to shut up about L. M. Montgomery, but obviously not enough to actually ever shut up about L. M. Montgomery. Anyway, I completely approve of this binge, and hope you don't hate Pat too much :(
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Date: 2015-10-29 01:40 am (UTC)L. M. Montgomery claimed that The Story Girl was her favorite of her books, and it's easy to see why -- it was easy to write because so much of it had already been written in one form or another, and she was in good spirits generally. It was a fun, low-pressure project after the huge success of the first two Anne books and the unsatisfying ordeal of churning out Kilmeny for a demanding publisher.
The Pat books have a similar structure -- with many, many stories told by Judy Plum between RL incidents. The bulk of them is very cozy for the most part, but with Pat's anxiety always seeping in. They're set in their own present day, rather than a nostalgic past like The Story Girl, but of course they're drenched in pre-emptive nostalgia anyway.
I'm sorry for my inability to shut up about L. M. Montgomery, but obviously not enough to actually ever shut up about L. M. Montgomery. Anyway, I completely approve of this binge, and hope you don't hate Pat too much :(