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Lousia May Alcott...you are pretty awesome. I do not believe I could think of a more perfect book for a mother to read with her young daughters than Little Women. I actually hope that I have daughters in the future…just so I can read this with them.
Louisa May Alcott has brought together an ideal balance of feminine grace and strength with the story of a mother and her four daughters. The characters go through a realistic journey of joys and trials ranging from the minor to the major. With each circumstance there are small lessons of how to live in a way that can be fulfilling and also proper and respectful to other people. As boring as this may sound, it was quite entertaining and heartwarming.
I had a chance to re-watch the movie based on this book, starring Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder, after reading this novel. I have to say that I was pretty disappointed, especially with the representation of some of the characters. I know they feel the need, but why, why do they always have to make each character beautiful or handsome. Sometimes books clearly say that they are not, and movies obviously feel that it is not good enough to include a “normal” looking person. Oh well, we all know this is true about movies, so I suppose I should just accept it.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to women of all ages :)
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- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Crime and Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Little Women is one of my favourites, such a great story of being a family :-)
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the book, but loved the story line from the movie.
ReplyDeleteThe book is awesome, I read it for the first time this summer. I love how LMA developed the characters. I just wish I hadn't waited so long to read it! I discussed it at length on my blog about LMA http://louisamayalcottismypassion.wordpress.com - come on over for a visit.
ReplyDeleteI loved this book, too! But I also didn't read until recently...a couple of years ago. I was probably intimidated to read it when I was young because the book looks really long...and it is...but it is such a good read. :) I agree that the movie doesn't quite do it justice! We'll have to watch it together with Kendra when you move back to Oregon. :)
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