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A review by kierscrivener
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3.0
I read this the first time when I was eleven or so and was not so engaged but I would still pick through and look at the illustrations and read parts. Reading it again as an adult I have mixed feelings. It is a charming classic of sisters but it doesn't impact me the same way many do.
I do apperciate Alcott's attention to their arcs and creating them flawed and letting them develop. As well as the fun and hecticness of the family and the authenic feelings of loneliness and anger of Jo, though the more distant moralistic narration kept me from fully feeling I knew Jo's inner world.
It is a story I still enjoy a great deal and will pass on to future generations but I might be a book heretic but I adore the adaptations better.
Also what my eleven year self found heresy, I quite like. The understanding that love and love are not always the same and that your first love is often not your last.
I do apperciate Alcott's attention to their arcs and creating them flawed and letting them develop. As well as the fun and hecticness of the family and the authenic feelings of loneliness and anger of Jo, though the more distant moralistic narration kept me from fully feeling I knew Jo's inner world.
It is a story I still enjoy a great deal and will pass on to future generations but I might be a book heretic but I adore the adaptations better.
Also what my eleven year self found heresy, I quite like. The understanding that love and love are not always the same and that your first love is often not your last.