Mama Kat Thursday: Favorite Read
The Mama Kat prompt I chose today is to share about a favorite read. My absolute favorite book is, "My Blue Castle" by L.M. Montgomery, the same author of Anna of Green Gables. It's a yellowed, worn paperback that I re-read from time to time. I like it because it's a classic ugly-ducking-turns-into-a-swan story. It's set in Canada around 1920 and is about a young woman named, Valency. She's almost 29, an old maid by social standards of the day with no hope of any marrying prospects She's an introverted, meek girl who feels stuck succumbing to every whim of her domineering Mother and her Mother's cousin as well as having to endure all the eccentricities of all the local high-brow relatives. Her's is a drab life and to make-up for it, Valency lives an imaginary day-dream life in her mind where she is the princess of a beautiful blue castle and can do what she likes and is courted by every handsome prince of the land. Valency als...