Little Women

Dated? Certainly, but still a sweet tale.

FINALLY finished it.

This was not up my alley at all. I've surprised myself when I read Jane Austen - surprised as in I really enjoyed her works. The book club I'm in was reading Little Women and I thought it would be along the same lines. Nope. I did not enjoy this at all.

I started reading it, the actual physical book, but switched to Craftlit to get the audio and Heather's commentary. I feel like I did this because I wasn't interested in the sto...read more

This is a re-read. I absolutely love this story and there are many reasons why, each time I read this at different times/age during my life I see how my view points change with each time. As a young girl I was such a Jo and Laurie fan, however the older I get there are moments throughout this book that I tend to lean more of an Amy and Laurie fan.

Though the ending we see Jo marry when she stated she was never going to and did not see that future...read more

I love this story, but I didn't always. I seem to recall reading it for the first time around 10 or 11 years of age and coming up a particular scene I didn't like...when Jo tells Laurie she can't marry him. Her refusal to accept his proposal seemed like a mistake to me when I first read it, and so I flung the book across the room and didn't touch it again for a few days. I eventually calmed down and returned to the scene on the page to see the st...read more

After having watched the film, I was surprised how much was not only missed, but also changed. This is a lovely book of four sisters coming of age.