18/11/2008

I’ve been working away at the book cover gallery.  I’m very excited - there are nearly 1000 covers in all sorts of languages for many L. M. Montgomery books, so it should be one of the most extensive collections online.  I also wrote an article on the Politics of L. M. Montgomery, who is - perhaps surprisingly - a Liberal.  I also put up The Piper– Walter Blythe’s poem in Rilla of Ingleside– which I saved from a fan website in 2004 that doesn’t seem to be online anymore.

16/11/2008

Updated the Author page with a “get-to-know-you-questionnaire” that Montgomery answered, full of miscellaneous information about her favourite flowers and books and places.  Wrote a short article on her suicide, and am slowly posting summaries of Magic Island as I’m reading along.

15/11/2008

The L. M. Montgomery translations should be as up-to-date as can be!  I found lots of foreign titles at UNESCO, and was excited to learn that Anne has been translated into languages like Arabic, Estonian, Icelandic and Thai.  There are 33 languages, and counting! And of course you can view the corresponding book covers at the book cover gallery.

04/11/2008

I’m so excited: my complete overhaul of lmm-anne.net - the Anne of Green Gables and L. M. Montgomery lexicon is just about done!  Minus a few glitches (the author section looks ugly, some of the geography pages are still messy, and I still have stashes of audio to upload for some of the films, and the games need revision), the site should be functional.  It’s here, it’s really here!

I have been collecting Anne and L. M. Montgomery information since 2001. I love every single one of L. M. Montgomery’s books, and “delving deeper” into their world makes them even more meaningful to me.  I get thrills when I read poetry that Anne quoted, and I hunt for book covers from all around the world as a diversion.  I read every LMM biography I can get my hands on, and I’ve become such an insufferable know-it-all of Montgomery-esque tidbits that I really had to spout it out somewhere.

lmm-anne.net first went live in 2005, under the name “Wild Cherry Blossoms: an Anne of Green Gables Project” (with allusions to providing “scope for imagination” for fans, as in Anne’s line “wouldn’t you like to sleep in a wild cherry tree all white with blossom?  you could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls..“). It focused only on the Anne series.  I began expanding it in late 2006 to include Montgomery’s entire canon, but college, travelling, and life, got in the way.  I’m so please I finally waded through some 400 odd page of literary allusions, and the several hundred PEI photos and movie screencaps.  Yes, seriously, AND I still have files on my hard drive that are clamouring to go live.

The new edition is renamed as lmm-anne.net - the Anne of Green Gables and L. M. Montgomery lexicon, because it’s really a compendium of information on the Montgomery world. I hope you’ll enjoy everything you find here.  Look forward to updates and new sections, too - there’s always more coming!

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