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Little Women (Little Women, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

Start date: November 1, 2013

Finish date: December 31, 2013

Discussion: Children's Group Read

Why we're reading this: This is the group read for the childrens classic. It runs for two months.
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Dec 24, 2012 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, z-read-in-2013, and-saw-the-movie, historical-fiction

A Boston mother struggles with raising four daughters while her husband is away during the Civil War. Sure it's a classic but it's still a great read today.

It presents a wonderful, slightly idealized (wholesome, moral) portrait of life at the time. And folks would probably think of the family as a moderately prosperous New England family rather than as a truly poverty stricken as they seem to think they are. Perhaps its a bit too sweet for steady adult consumption but the story works. Even more ...more

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Mar 05, 2009 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, bookcrossing, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, book-and-movie, read-2009

Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters.

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Feb 13, 2014 Chaundra rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: that-shaped-me, classics

I read this book as a young adult (12? 13? something like) and it completely resonated with me and for the longest time was high on my list of favourite books.

Then I reread it as an adult and . . . it just wasn't. Echoes of that previous life changing read were still there, but my greater life experience and greater literary experience meant that it felt rather old fashioned and very patriarchal (despite some obvious progressive threads). I still rate it as a book that affected me very much, but ...more

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Feb 08, 2009 Becca rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, classics, rory-gilmore-challenge

This book is one of my old favorites, so when I got an e-reader application for my iTouch, it was one of the first books I downloaded. I read this a little each day while waiting to pick L. up from school - it's really convenient to have, because it fits right in my pocket and I don't have to carry a paperback around with me! ...more

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Jun 16, 2008 Josie rated it it was amazing

Absolutely a classic. I was one of those students who actually enjoyed reading for school. I was lucky enough to read this in High School. The movie was also excellent.

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