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In this very difficult year (2020) I've been reading gentler books than I normally do, and while this has never been my favorite Alcott (that would be Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom) I'm startled by how much I am disliking it. It just seems so sappy, even Amy - the undeniably selfish and flawed youngest just gave up her chance for new colored pencils to buy her mother a large bottle of cologne for Christmas. Not sure if I can do it without risking rotting my teeth! edit: Abandoned. Maybe it was
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I haven't read this since I was a kid, when I loved it and read all of LMA's books. I was put off, at first, by the flowery language and the moralizing. Once I got used to the style, I began to appreciate it as an adult - the story of a family of girls trying to live in a way that reflects their values, even when those values don't always fit with the rest of society's. Jo is a girl who wishes at times that she is a boy, Laurie is a boy who has a definite feminine side, Amy has a prayer room set
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