Amy's review
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Amy's review
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Amy's review
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recommended for: Those who have retained their innocence in this materialistic world we live in.
I absolutely cannot read this again or it will be ruined from my 10-year-old remembrance of it. I really don't want that to happen. You need to be a bit naive yourself to truly appreciate the nunnish thoughts and adventures of 4 perfectly innocent preteens and teenagers of the 1860s. I remember reading it and wishing that I had sisters to perform plays with and write newspapers with and that I had a next door neighbor to fall in love with. But trying to read the book again when I'm in my 30s, I can't help but roll my eyes at the naive little women in this book.
I just read March, a modern writer's tale of the "little women's" father during his time in the civil war. There's a reason that their father writes nicey nice letters home that don't tell of the atrocities of war. There's a reason that he doesn't want to come home when he's injured. And that reason is that the innocent virginal world of the the March family back in Connecticut seems like a silly dream world...more
I just read March, a modern writer's tale of the "little women's" father during his time in the civil war. There's a reason that their father writes nicey nice letters home that don't tell of the atrocities of war. There's a reason that he doesn't want to come home when he's injured. And that reason is that the innocent virginal world of the the March family back in Connecticut seems like a silly dream world...more
