Title: Little Women Author: L.M. Alcott Genre: Classics Rating: 9/10 # pages: Audiobook from Librivox Date read: August, 2008

Summary: Little Women is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee," blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love...Meg prepares for marriage and a family...Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically...and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter.

Review: I've read LW many times, and still enjoy each reading of it. This was the first time I've heard it as an audiobook though, and that gave me a new appreciation of it as I find I'm often more likely to be touched by a book I know well if I listen to it rather than if I read it.

I'm one of the few who do not think Laurie and Jo belonged together, so that's never been a disappointment to me, but for the first time I believed the love growing between him and Amy. It's always seemed too convenient for me before, but I found some clues I hadn't seen before, which made it more real to me.

L.M. Alcott has a bad habit of putting morals into most of her books. LW isn't nearly as bad as Jack and Jill (where every chapter ended with a sermon of some kind - got old really fast), but worse than the Rose books.

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Tags: 2008: august, classics