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Little Women (Little Women, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

Start date: August 22, 2012

Finish date: August 24, 2012

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Sep 17, 2012 ☯Emily Ginder rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-lit, classics, read-in-2012

It is interesting to reread a book that one loved as a child. As an adult, you get a different perspective which leads an opinion that is not the same as one had as a child. I did find the book preachy, which I did not remember as a child. This made the first half very difficult to get through. I did appreciate the love triangle and how that resolved itself. I enjoyed the early marriage difficulties of Meg and John and completely related to those chapters. However, I questioned Beth's death. Wha ...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Barbara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: new-england, novels, read-in-2011, classics, recently-reread, reviewed, group-banned-books-club, currently-rereading, read-a-long-time-ago, reading-with-banned-books-club

I just finished reading "Little Women." It's the book for the month of May in the Banned Books Club here on Goodreads, and it will be interesting to discuss it with the people in the group. Also, I like to go back and reread books that I haven't read since I was a child, and I thought it would be interesting to read this again as an adult. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things about this book that I am not crazy about.

I know -- I'm supposed to LOVE this book, but I just don't. I read it as a ...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Parikhit rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, e-books, america

I was glued to the book from the very start. Many may find the book more of a sermon than a novel. Nonetheless I enjoyed most of the book. Reading the book at a point of time when I was dwelling in the lows of my life did help uplift me from the abyss of despair.

The story happens to be relevant even today. The characters we read about are not angels; they have their own faults, their own battles to fight and own struggles to cope up with and what they realize, and so do we as readers, that love ...more

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Dec 20, 2014 Mae rated it really liked it

I wish I had read this sooner. I can't count how much I cried and laughed. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead on 5 is that I only give my favorites 5 which is only a handfull of books. The book is a tad more religious than I like but it was well written in. ...more

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