Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Have you lost your mind? Experienced religion? Or any other dreadful thing?

Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury by Louisa May Alcott

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I love Christmas. As my kid says, there are more holiday songs on my “Holly Jolly” play list than there are days in the year. I bake an insane number of cookies and start watching Christmas movies in November. Yep, I am one of those people and I’m not sorry about it. When I was around 9, I got a paperback anthology of Christmas stories. To keep myself occupied until everyone else woke up on Christmas morning (I was the only kid in the house at the […]

Some Classics Remain That Way

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Bingo Update: This is my Classics square. I don’t think I need to explain this one. This is not my first read, though I’ve discovered with the release of the trailer for the new film that it isn’t actually fair to assume that everyone has read this perennial favorite of young women everywhere. The upcoming film adaptation, one of many, inspired me to pick this up for the first time in more than a decade. I was not disappointed. Little Women tells the semi-autobiographical story […]

My unpopular take on a classic

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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cbr11bingo Classic When I was about 10, I tried to read Little Women but found it so boring and such a slog that I gave up. Fast-forward several decades and I hate to say it, but I still kind of feel the same way. The “coming of age” story about the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy has important things to say about family, poverty and faith, as well as about the way young ladies ought to behave and what they should strive for. […]

Re-read of Little Women

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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“Little Women” takes place during the American Civil War. The four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth) are home with their mother (Marmee) and their maid Hannah while their father (known as Father) is away fighting. What I found interesting about the March family was how progressive the attitudes of the parents were and how that helped shaped their four daughters. So here’s the thing. Amy is my favorite. I can’t help it. I know a lot of book readers love Jo the best, […]

Revisiting an old favorite

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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CBR11 Bingo Back To School. I haven’t read this book since middle school probably. I did read it repeatedly in my younger years because I identified very much with Jo- never quite doing what was expected of her or fitting in very well, but always with the best of intentions. I have to say that my feelings now aren’t much different than they were twenty-five years ago. Little Women tells the story of the March family during the Civil War years. Mr. March is fighting […]

Put the book in the freezer, Joey.

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I’ve read Little Women countless times, and there was always malcontent about how certain love dilemmas resolved themselves. I used to think that Alcott really didn’t know her characters. But reading it this time, as a married adult, I think she might have been on to something. If you’ve never read Little Women (and seriously, why haven’t you?), it’s the story of the four March sisters trying to keep their spirits up during the Civil War. They undergo character trials, vexations, and the simple joys […]



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