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I fell in love with books listening to my mother read—in our home, at the doctor’s office, in the middle of the night when I had the chicken pox! My grandmother was a children’s book author, my parents were both children’s reading specialists and teachers, so I guess you could say that I grew up in a world filled with books!

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  • Antique books on my grandmother’s antique desk for fall. And baby white pumpkins had me at hello.... I can’t decide which season is best for reading, but fall is so cozy that I feel like curling up with a book more often. 🍂 Are you a seasonal reader? What do you read in the fall? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #praywithjane #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #booklove #literary #classicbooks #amwriting #antiquebooks #antiquedesk #pumpkins #whitepumpkins
  • My offering for the final day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — Fall Foliage and Anne. I’ve always loved this scene. We see Anne starting to grow up and go out on her own. I’ve always thought of Anne as brave and resilient. 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! I hope we do this again next year. 🍂 Do you have fall leaves yet where you live? What is it about fall that makes us so giddy and happy?? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • Books, books, books at #inklings coffee shop where I meet with my writing group every other month. It’s time to meet again, @shaunapilgreen and @mandysantos bc good company, deep arm chairs, and hot tea are calling to me this fall! 🍂 Where do you love to hang out with friends? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #shelfie #shelfiesunday #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #booklove #literary #classicbooks #cslewis #jrrtolkien #amwriting
  • My offering for Day Five of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober —Favorite LM Montgomery book for fall reading. 🍂 I chose the first Anne of Green Gables book bc fall always makes me think of rereading the whole series again when my daughter was born. It was late fall and the Anne books were such a comfort when I was up in the night and sleep deprived and healing from surgery. 🍂 Do you have any special memories attached to the Anne books or other books? 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 🍂 My offering for the 4th day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober is the scene in the apple orchard in the 1985 movie version when Gilbert comes to take Anne on a walk down Lover’s Lane. Gosh, I remember being so giddy when he came to see her! She looked so pretty with her hat and the basket of apples! 🍂 We read these lines in Anne of the Island of Gilbert’s second proposal: “I have a dream,” he said slowly. “I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with the hearth-fire in it, a cat and a dog, the footsteps of friends, – and you!” Anne wanted to speak but she could find no words. Happiness was breaking over her like a wave. It almost frightened her. “I asked you a question over two years ago. If I ask it again today will you give me a different answer?” Still Anne could not speak. But she lifted her eyes, shining with all the love-rapture of countless generations, and looked into his for a moment. He wanted no other answer. 🍂 This may actually be the only time Anne is actually speechless. And who wouldn’t be? I love October bc it’s my birthday month and it’s fall and there are apples and dry leaves. Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 Do you have a sweet engagement story or the dream of one you hope may one day happen? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • My offering for the third day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — Anne and Pumpkins! I’m a little late bc yesterday was my birthday and I was enjoying my women’s Bible study, lunch with a friend, and dinner with my family. 🍂 My husband gave me this darling book from my wish list for my birthday and I can’t wait to read it! Have you read it yet? 🍂 I love this quote: “Alone once more, Maud turned back to her twin comforts: the worlds of nature and of books. And she had firmly in place her most enduring dream, the “one wish and ambition” of her childhood: to write, and to take her place among the world’s “poets and artists and storytellers . . . who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.“ 🍂 May we never forget the way!! Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • My offering for Day Two of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — “cozy Anne” — because this scene always makes me laugh and Anne does look quite cozy as the Lady of Shalott! 🤣🤣🤣 🍂 Did anyone else ever play dress up like Anne and get a little carried away?? 🙋🏻‍♀️ 🍂 When this movie aired on PBS, my dad recorded it for me, minus the pledge breaks (anybody remember those?). I watched those tapes over and over! I still love to watch it on rainy days or when I’m sick. 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe #meganfollows
  • My offering for this first day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober because Fall is all about nostalgia reads and pots of tea for me! Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 A cup of throat coat tea (mostly bc I just like the taste of licorice root!) and a good book is perfect when it gets dark earlier and the evenings are brisk. 🍂 Do you like Anne of Windy Poplars? I love it. Confession: I didn’t like it when I was growing up bc Gilbert isn’t in it and I wanted to skip to when they got married! 😱 Now I think it’s beautiful. The characters and setting are so rich. I can picture everything vividly! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • These #girlboss authors are what make #victober special for me. I love Dickens and Gaskell and all the rest, too, but these 3 Brontes had me at hello! Isn’t there just “something” about Victorian literature that is perfect for fall days? 🍂 I’ve been reading the opening chapters of #janeeyre and thinking back to when I first discovered it in my grandmother’s bookshelves. I thought I’d found the book of all books! I have read it so many times! 🍂 When did you first read the #brontesisters ? Do you remember *where* you read it? I was in Arizona over summer break. 🍂 🍂 🍂 #charlottebronte #bronte #emilybrontë #annebronte #victorian #victorianstyle #queenvictoria #amreading #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #carpelibrum #currentlyreading #bookworm #reading #amreading #booknerd #bookish #readallthebooks #unitedbookstagrammers #christianwoman #christianauthor #kindredspiritbooks
  • I adore this beautiful shot of Praying with Jane by @storybookstyle with its lovely detail and color scheme. She has such a gift for photography and creating wonderful bookish scenes for all of us to enjoy! 🍂 Does it feel like fall where you live? It does for me, here in Northern California. I’m enjoying cooler weather, hot tea, and that special warm thing the sun does in the autumn. 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #praywithjane #prayingwithjane #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #currentlyreading #bookworm #austen18 #amreading #booknerd #readallthebooks #unitedbookstagram #bookphotography #bookish #bookstagramfeature #womenintheword #christianlife #christiangirl #christianliving #christianwoman #butfirstJesus #christianbooks #janeite #austenite #janeausten #janeaustenfan
  • And so this is what is feels like to release your first book. In honor of Jane, I present this photo of me at the #jasnaagm2018 Regency Ball and several photos from today! 🍃 I had the best, most surreal day. I went to a beloved friend’s house for a lovely lunch. Then, this evening, dear friends @sarahcmagee and @clintonmagee came to the door with a surprise Jane Austen cake! We went to #chickfila because #chickfila and because that’s where you go to celebrate big events. The people there were so excited that they brought us stuffed cows, gift cards, and hats, along with promises to go buy the book. On the way home, my youngest asked if we could go to the store to see the book. We went over and saw #prayingwithjane in the flesh! I signed the copies they had in the shelves, put one facing out so people will see it in the morning, and took some photos. Such a fun day! 🍃 Thank you to everyone for sharing your #bookmail photos. Keep sharing because #bookmailisthebestmail and because good friends share good books with good friends. 🍃 🍃 🍃 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #janeaustenfan #currentlyreading #bookworm #reading #amreading #booknerd #readallthebooks #kindredspiritbooks #womenintheword #christianlife #christiangirl #christianliving #christianwoman #butfirstJesus #christianbooks #janeite #austenite #janeausten

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  • Antique books on my grandmother’s antique desk for fall. And baby white pumpkins had me at hello.... I can’t decide which season is best for reading, but fall is so cozy that I feel like curling up with a book more often. 🍂 Are you a seasonal reader? What do you read in the fall? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #praywithjane #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #booklove #literary #classicbooks #amwriting #antiquebooks #antiquedesk #pumpkins #whitepumpkins
  • My offering for the final day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — Fall Foliage and Anne. I’ve always loved this scene. We see Anne starting to grow up and go out on her own. I’ve always thought of Anne as brave and resilient. 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! I hope we do this again next year. 🍂 Do you have fall leaves yet where you live? What is it about fall that makes us so giddy and happy?? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • Books, books, books at #inklings coffee shop where I meet with my writing group every other month. It’s time to meet again, @shaunapilgreen and @mandysantos bc good company, deep arm chairs, and hot tea are calling to me this fall! 🍂 Where do you love to hang out with friends? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #shelfie #shelfiesunday #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #booklove #literary #classicbooks #cslewis #jrrtolkien #amwriting
  • My offering for Day Five of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober —Favorite LM Montgomery book for fall reading. 🍂 I chose the first Anne of Green Gables book bc fall always makes me think of rereading the whole series again when my daughter was born. It was late fall and the Anne books were such a comfort when I was up in the night and sleep deprived and healing from surgery. 🍂 Do you have any special memories attached to the Anne books or other books? 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” 🍂 My offering for the 4th day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober is the scene in the apple orchard in the 1985 movie version when Gilbert comes to take Anne on a walk down Lover’s Lane. Gosh, I remember being so giddy when he came to see her! She looked so pretty with her hat and the basket of apples! 🍂 We read these lines in Anne of the Island of Gilbert’s second proposal: “I have a dream,” he said slowly. “I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with the hearth-fire in it, a cat and a dog, the footsteps of friends, – and you!” Anne wanted to speak but she could find no words. Happiness was breaking over her like a wave. It almost frightened her. “I asked you a question over two years ago. If I ask it again today will you give me a different answer?” Still Anne could not speak. But she lifted her eyes, shining with all the love-rapture of countless generations, and looked into his for a moment. He wanted no other answer. 🍂 This may actually be the only time Anne is actually speechless. And who wouldn’t be? I love October bc it’s my birthday month and it’s fall and there are apples and dry leaves. Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 Do you have a sweet engagement story or the dream of one you hope may one day happen? 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • My offering for the third day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — Anne and Pumpkins! I’m a little late bc yesterday was my birthday and I was enjoying my women’s Bible study, lunch with a friend, and dinner with my family. 🍂 My husband gave me this darling book from my wish list for my birthday and I can’t wait to read it! Have you read it yet? 🍂 I love this quote: “Alone once more, Maud turned back to her twin comforts: the worlds of nature and of books. And she had firmly in place her most enduring dream, the “one wish and ambition” of her childhood: to write, and to take her place among the world’s “poets and artists and storytellers . . . who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.“ 🍂 May we never forget the way!! Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • My offering for Day Two of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober — “cozy Anne” — because this scene always makes me laugh and Anne does look quite cozy as the Lady of Shalott! 🤣🤣🤣 🍂 Did anyone else ever play dress up like Anne and get a little carried away?? 🙋🏻‍♀️ 🍂 When this movie aired on PBS, my dad recorded it for me, minus the pledge breaks (anybody remember those?). I watched those tapes over and over! I still love to watch it on rainy days or when I’m sick. 🍂 Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe #meganfollows
  • My offering for this first day of #12daysofannestagram during #annetober because Fall is all about nostalgia reads and pots of tea for me! Thank you to @carrottoppapershop and @thebooksellersdaughter for hosting! 🍂 A cup of throat coat tea (mostly bc I just like the taste of licorice root!) and a good book is perfect when it gets dark earlier and the evenings are brisk. 🍂 Do you like Anne of Windy Poplars? I love it. Confession: I didn’t like it when I was growing up bc Gilbert isn’t in it and I wanted to skip to when they got married! 😱 Now I think it’s beautiful. The characters and setting are so rich. I can picture everything vividly! 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #prayingwithjane #anneofgreengables #bookishfeatures #fallreading #fallbooks #kindredspiritbooks #amreading #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #christianwomen #bookish #bookstagramfeature #booklove #bookblog #booknerd #bookworm #bookaholic #truelove #lmmontgomery #literary #anneshirley #anneofgreengables #annewithane #annewithanereadalong2018 #classicbooks #gilbertblythe
  • These #girlboss authors are what make #victober special for me. I love Dickens and Gaskell and all the rest, too, but these 3 Brontes had me at hello! Isn’t there just “something” about Victorian literature that is perfect for fall days? 🍂 I’ve been reading the opening chapters of #janeeyre and thinking back to when I first discovered it in my grandmother’s bookshelves. I thought I’d found the book of all books! I have read it so many times! 🍂 When did you first read the #brontesisters ? Do you remember *where* you read it? I was in Arizona over summer break. 🍂 🍂 🍂 #charlottebronte #bronte #emilybrontë #annebronte #victorian #victorianstyle #queenvictoria #amreading #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #carpelibrum #currentlyreading #bookworm #reading #amreading #booknerd #bookish #readallthebooks #unitedbookstagrammers #christianwoman #christianauthor #kindredspiritbooks
  • I adore this beautiful shot of Praying with Jane by @storybookstyle with its lovely detail and color scheme. She has such a gift for photography and creating wonderful bookish scenes for all of us to enjoy! 🍂 Does it feel like fall where you live? It does for me, here in Northern California. I’m enjoying cooler weather, hot tea, and that special warm thing the sun does in the autumn. 🍂 🍂 🍂 #kindredspiritbooks #praywithjane #prayingwithjane #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #currentlyreading #bookworm #austen18 #amreading #booknerd #readallthebooks #unitedbookstagram #bookphotography #bookish #bookstagramfeature #womenintheword #christianlife #christiangirl #christianliving #christianwoman #butfirstJesus #christianbooks #janeite #austenite #janeausten #janeaustenfan
  • And so this is what is feels like to release your first book. In honor of Jane, I present this photo of me at the #jasnaagm2018 Regency Ball and several photos from today! 🍃 I had the best, most surreal day. I went to a beloved friend’s house for a lovely lunch. Then, this evening, dear friends @sarahcmagee and @clintonmagee came to the door with a surprise Jane Austen cake! We went to #chickfila because #chickfila and because that’s where you go to celebrate big events. The people there were so excited that they brought us stuffed cows, gift cards, and hats, along with promises to go buy the book. On the way home, my youngest asked if we could go to the store to see the book. We went over and saw #prayingwithjane in the flesh! I signed the copies they had in the shelves, put one facing out so people will see it in the morning, and took some photos. Such a fun day! 🍃 Thank you to everyone for sharing your #bookmail photos. Keep sharing because #bookmailisthebestmail and because good friends share good books with good friends. 🍃 🍃 🍃 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #booklife #booklover #bibliophile #janeaustenfan #currentlyreading #bookworm #reading #amreading #booknerd #readallthebooks #kindredspiritbooks #womenintheword #christianlife #christiangirl #christianliving #christianwoman #butfirstJesus #christianbooks #janeite #austenite #janeausten
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