Monthly Archives: December 2025

In 2026 and through 2027, I’ll be undertaking a Lucy Maud Montgomery Big Read. The goal is to read her entire backlist of books (including her short stories) over this two year period.

The majority of her books are available from Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg – Lucy Maud Montgomery – if you have problems locating them from your library or other sources.

The Reading Plan is as follows:

Anne Books
Jan – Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Feb – Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Mar – Anne of the Island (1915)
Apr – Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
May – Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)
Jun – Anne of Ingleside (1939)
Jul – Rainbow Valley (1919)
Aug – Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

Emily Books
Sep – Emily of New Moon (1923)
Oct – Emily Climbs (1925)
Nov – Emily’s Quest (1927)

Pat of Silver Bush
Dec – Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
Jan – Mistress Pat (1935)

The Story Girl
Feb – The Story Girl (1911)
Mar – The Golden Road (1913)

Standalone novels
Apr – Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
May – The Blue Castle (1926)
Jun – Magic for Marigold (1929)
Jul – A Tangled Web (1931)
Aug – Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)

LMM’s Short Stories (Project Gutenberg Volumes)
Sep – 1896-1901
Oct – 1902-1906
Nov – 1907-1908
Dec – 1909-1922

If you are interested in joining in – feel free to post about your plan. This is totally low-key and informal. I hope to see some of you join in.

**Image generated using OpenAI and the prompt: I need an image for a LM Montgomery read a long starting January 1 2026 and running for 2 years – all her books including Anne of Green Gables, the Emily series and others will be read – it should be a rectangle image that looks good in a word press blog and should be simple with limited to no text**

Hey Everyone!

Wow, I can’t believe its been nearly four years since I posted anything to this blog. How time flies!!

The last few years have been kind of crazy and busy between a military deployment (during the height of COVID), a second Master’s degree (Masters’ in Strategic Information and Cyberspace Studies), a graduate certification (Instructional Design), and starting my PhD (Education, with a focus on Research, Evaluation, Statistics and Assessment). I’ve also been on military recall orders for the last year.

But 2026 is shaping up to be a good year of reading and (keeping fingers crossed) blogging. I’ll be starting a 2 year Lucy Maud Montgomery Big Read with the goal to read all her published works (including her short stories) as well as attempting to tackle Moby Dick again. I might try War and Peace again (my goal to read it last year lasted all of a week before I got distracted).

Stay safe in the last few days of 2025 and I look forward to seeing everyone in 2026!