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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
I liked this book, but that was all. Just like. And parts of it I didn’t like at all. I actually didn’t like Mr. March all that much. I don’t know WHY I didn’t like it more, I just didn’t.
I am starting to learn, after a year of being on Goodreads, not to read reviews before I read a book. Once again, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed a novel that reviewers seemed to dislike. I am chalking it up to "different strokes for different folks."
This book was fine, I suppose, but I had a hard time finding the main character/narrator anything but insufferable, despite his generally good intentions. I also have never read Little Women and was coming at this as its own work - perhaps it works better for those who've read and loved Little Women already?
Okay, I can't be objective about this one--I LOVED it.
Little Women is a childhood favorite that I return to periodically as an adult. Thought I now recognize its faults, I still love it dearly.
Plus I read this on a long trip away from my family. Okay, I wasn't fighting in the Civil War, but I was in the perfect state of mind to completely buy into the story.
I found it fascinating and engaging and it made me cry.
Little Women is a childhood favorite that I return to periodically as an adult. Thought I now recognize its faults, I still love it dearly.
Plus I read this on a long trip away from my family. Okay, I wasn't fighting in the Civil War, but I was in the perfect state of mind to completely buy into the story.
I found it fascinating and engaging and it made me cry.
i like it, but i wish i were just reading 'little women.' i do love geraldine brooks, though.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War
Moderate: Racial slurs
Did not finish — I really thought the premise would be interesting but honestly this plot was uncomfy & not something I was really invested in — I thought maybe it would involve the March sisters more
Eh. There's a reason I didn't miss the father character in Little Women. Bronson Alcott was a nutcase. (I know this book is fiction. As is Little Women. But clearly this character, in both Brooks's novel and Alcott's, is based upon Bronson Alcott. Also, do I love that the high school in Clueless is Bronson Alcott High? I do.) Anyway, it has been a long, long time since I've read anything that took place during the American Civil War, and man those books make me almost as uneasy as books about the Holocaust. I think I'll read Little Women again soon. The end.
While I found myself dipping in and out of engagement as I read this Pulitzer Prize winning book, Brooks is an amazing and gifted author. I found a section later in the book about the horrors of war (setting is during the Civil War), one of the best I've ever read.