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Natalie Hanemann
Nov 22, 2009 rated it it was ok
I had to put the book down by page 100. I found my mind drifting to all the other books I could be reading when I should have been paying attention to Ms. Alcott's work. Don't hate me!

But I did learn something interested about Louisa. She was a war-time nurse and left when she got ill (typhoid?). She wrote a novel of hospital stories, then six years later, wrote Little Women. I learned that in the audio I'm listening to, The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.


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