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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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bookshelves: classics, american, comfort-read
Oct 30, 2014
bookshelves: classics, american, comfort-read
Read 2 times. Last read January 11, 2018 to January 14, 2018.
Original rating: 5 stars
Update: 4 stars - still a comfy-cosy/feel-good read, but I am aging or getting more mature or whatever you want to call it, so kissing goodbye to fresh bloom/youth/innocence/naivety and 1 star!
Ah, the idea of transcendentalism and the happy notion of inherent goodness of people and nature. How it appealed to me (it still does, but felt a bit spoon-fed this time round!)....
*SIGH*
*FEELING SAD, BUT BRAVELY FACING THE INEVITABLE*
It used to be a favourite book of mine, though I haven't read it in quite a while (more than 10 years, I think). I don't deny seeing and loving the 1994 Winona Ryder movie first that inspired me to read the book, which I loved even more. Ah
And to think that author Louisa May Alcott knew Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. WOW!
This brings some other, happier thoughts to mind, which have something to do with Little Women, but even more with literature from America in general.
I just cannot deny myself the pleasure of reminiscing about my favourite uni-lecturer, the divine Bill Murphy. I will never forget the day I set eyes on him when entering the lecture hall. He looked like a veritable tramp with unkempt clothes and hair who somehow lost his way. But he had such kind eyes and smile. And once he opened his mouth to talk on 19th literature in the US, he captured his until-then snickering and rather patronising audience. Oh, all those discussions we used to have...
I was really lucky to be able to talk about transcendentalism & Louisa May Alcott, among many other issues.
*Another SIGH*
Thank you, Bill!!
Update: 4 stars - still a comfy-cosy/feel-good read, but I am aging or getting more mature or whatever you want to call it, so kissing goodbye to fresh bloom/youth/innocence/naivety and 1 star!
Ah, the idea of transcendentalism and the happy notion of inherent goodness of people and nature. How it appealed to me (it still does, but felt a bit spoon-fed this time round!)....
*SIGH*
*FEELING SAD, BUT BRAVELY FACING THE INEVITABLE*
It used to be a favourite book of mine, though I haven't read it in quite a while (more than 10 years, I think). I don't deny seeing and loving the 1994 Winona Ryder movie first that inspired me to read the book, which I loved even more. Ah
And to think that author Louisa May Alcott knew Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. WOW!
This brings some other, happier thoughts to mind, which have something to do with Little Women, but even more with literature from America in general.
I just cannot deny myself the pleasure of reminiscing about my favourite uni-lecturer, the divine Bill Murphy. I will never forget the day I set eyes on him when entering the lecture hall. He looked like a veritable tramp with unkempt clothes and hair who somehow lost his way. But he had such kind eyes and smile. And once he opened his mouth to talk on 19th literature in the US, he captured his until-then snickering and rather patronising audience. Oh, all those discussions we used to have...
I was really lucky to be able to talk about transcendentalism & Louisa May Alcott, among many other issues.
*Another SIGH*
Thank you, Bill!!
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Reading Progress
1996
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Started Reading
1996
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Finished Reading
October 30, 2014
– Shelved
August 30, 2016
– Shelved as:
classics
January 10, 2018
– Shelved as:
american
January 10, 2018
– Shelved as:
comfort-read
January 11, 2018
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Started Reading
January 14, 2018
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Finished Reading
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I just loved Gabriel B. in that role. He was divine. :)))
Melindam wrote: "I just loved Gabriel B. in that role. He was divine. :)))"Yes!
I mistook "Bill Murphy" for "Bill Murray" and was taken aback for a moment haha.
LOL.That wouldn't have been bad either. ;)
Loll I am with Chris. For a second I was like Bill Murray was a professor too? The description fit him well too 😅🙈.
I really want to read this book, I have mostly heard mixed things about it but I'm glad you still like it after this reread. Fantastic review!
Thank you, Nicole. :)
I can't wait to finally read this one ! Thanks for the review
I loved the 1994 movie with Winona Ryder, I loved Professor Baer in that movie, In other versions he is a bumbling pendant German--so wrong! Here in 1994 he is portrayed with love and respect.