Sarah’s Comments (group member since Dec 22, 2012)

Sarah’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Liz wrote: ""Eight Cousins" part of the "Little Women" series ... never read Little Women but did read the rest of the series, including "Jo's Boys" ... ;o)"

Eight Cousins and Little Women are both by Louisa May Alcott, but they are not part of the same series. They are both wonderful, but Eight Cousins is way less likely to make you cry.

Eight Cousins does have a sequel, though. It's
Rose in Bloom, which is a little more grown up and has a very sweet romance, and is likely to make you cry.

So many awesome kids' books. I've seen a few of mine above, but I've got:

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
The Westing Game
The Chronicles of Narnia
Eight Cousins

And I loved Ender's Game, but I feel like I read that a little later in life.

My name is Sarah & I'm from Pennsylvania.

I like to read so many different things. I've downloading classics to my iPod from Project Guttenberg b/c those are the only legal books I can easily get for my iPod in pdf format. I recently read A Study in Scarlet - the first Sherlock and re-read Pride and Prejudice.

But I also love YA, kids books, fantasy, science fiction, and romance (how can you not love a happy ending? Well, maybe a classics forum isn't the right place to say that, but that's how I feel.)

I was surprised by how much I loved When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.

Newberry winner, so obviously written for kids (and, as bonus, a fairly quick read), but I loved the way 1970s New York came alive. The kids felt real, and the premise was really interesting.