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Min
His thoughts reverted to a letter received the preceding day from a former classmate, stating that the pastorate of a certain desirable town church had become vacant and hinting that a call was to be moderated for him unless he signified his unwillingness to accept.
26 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2013
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L.M. Montgomery
1,862 books13.3k followersLucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
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May 18, 2021
First textually encountered by me in Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side (an interesting and varied collection of darker themed Lucy Maud Montgomery short stories edited by the late Rea Wilmshurst) Montgomery’s 1903 Min has truly slowly but surely grown on me so to speak the more and more I have reread it over the years (for indeed, the first time I read Min in 1990, I definitely found the story narrationally and thematically quite frustratingly disappointing).
Yes, I still do rather think that Min is a more than a trifle lacking in required content based substance in certain parts, with in particular the attraction between the town’s minister and the Min of the story title feeling quite unbelievable, at least to and for me on an emotional and potential reading pleasure level. I mean, the entire scenario Alan Telford first meeting up with Min Palmer, the mutual realisation by both that they are in fact in love with one another to Min’s death and Alan then immediately adopting Min’s special needs son is not only so instantaneous and happens so very quickly so as to almost defy my sense of reality, there is also not really any even remotely sufficiently deep analysis and description given by L.M. Montgomery as to the hows and whys. For I indeed really do want and need to know more details regarding Min’s life and what has made both her and Alan Telford encounter basically love at first sight so to speak (and with the ending of Min also feeling rather rushed and in particular Alan Telford’s decision to remain near Min’s grave and to continue to actively minister to the townspeople, to his congregation, instead of leaving, not really textually giving me as a reader sufficiently explained and dissected reasons).
But honestly, even though Min is still not a personal favourite (and I thus still do consider much of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s text considerably too quickly rendered and too lacking in content based details from beginning to conclusion), the more I have revisited Montgomery’s printed words for Min since 1990, the more I do appreciate that there are certainly quite a goodly number of flashes of descriptive brilliancy encountered in Min, not yet enough for me to rank Min with more than three stars, but more than enough to realise Montgomery’s literary talents and that Min as an early tale from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s pen also in my opinion is a definite harbinger of future literary acumen and descriptive greatness (which for example, can be delightfully noticed with Montgomery’s physical descriptions in Min of the gossiping town, as something both intriguing and at the same time offensively repellent).
Yes, I still do rather think that Min is a more than a trifle lacking in required content based substance in certain parts, with in particular the attraction between the town’s minister and the Min of the story title feeling quite unbelievable, at least to and for me on an emotional and potential reading pleasure level. I mean, the entire scenario Alan Telford first meeting up with Min Palmer, the mutual realisation by both that they are in fact in love with one another to Min’s death and Alan then immediately adopting Min’s special needs son is not only so instantaneous and happens so very quickly so as to almost defy my sense of reality, there is also not really any even remotely sufficiently deep analysis and description given by L.M. Montgomery as to the hows and whys. For I indeed really do want and need to know more details regarding Min’s life and what has made both her and Alan Telford encounter basically love at first sight so to speak (and with the ending of Min also feeling rather rushed and in particular Alan Telford’s decision to remain near Min’s grave and to continue to actively minister to the townspeople, to his congregation, instead of leaving, not really textually giving me as a reader sufficiently explained and dissected reasons).
But honestly, even though Min is still not a personal favourite (and I thus still do consider much of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s text considerably too quickly rendered and too lacking in content based details from beginning to conclusion), the more I have revisited Montgomery’s printed words for Min since 1990, the more I do appreciate that there are certainly quite a goodly number of flashes of descriptive brilliancy encountered in Min, not yet enough for me to rank Min with more than three stars, but more than enough to realise Montgomery’s literary talents and that Min as an early tale from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s pen also in my opinion is a definite harbinger of future literary acumen and descriptive greatness (which for example, can be delightfully noticed with Montgomery’s physical descriptions in Min of the gossiping town, as something both intriguing and at the same time offensively repellent).
July 8, 2024
3.5 stars (3/10 hearts). This gothic tale appeals to me… at least the beginning thereof. It’s sad and solemn—the story of a soul who could have been so much more but was tied down by hatred and finally succumbed to it… yet there is a thread of redemption too, only I wish it was stronger! I love the message of the minister’s storyline, though the romance is too fast and too melodramatic for my liking. It’s not one of Montgomery’s dark, wild tales, but it’s definitely more serious and thought-provoking.
June 19, 2025
Rather a dark story, but still enjoyable.
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