I've read all five journal volumes several times but this one remains my favourite. One could get a good impression of what LMM was like, just from reading this one.LMM is one of my favourite authors, and I find it fascinating to read her journal and see what she was actually like in real life. Unfortunately she had a very hard and depressing life - not at all like the happy characters you meet in her books.Despite her hardships, LMM had a very interesting life, and apart from letting me get to know her as a person, the journals are also a good way to learn what the life was like for a girl/woman on PEI around the turn of the last century.