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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Julia and I are reading "Little Women" right now so this book was particularly timely. I'm not sure I "buy" the author's version of events but it was a well-written and kept my attention.
Geraldine Brooks has written some of the few historical fiction novels I have enjoyed. While the writing was astonishing, I struggled some with the voice of the narrator. The few chapters in which the book is told from another's point of view made this book for me.
This novel is the story of the father from "Little Women" and puts a new light on the classic novel that we ll loved as young girls. Brooks describes the idolized father as being simply human. And while it is giving the reader a new perspective on "Little Women," it is also a sad and moving story of the Civil War. This book does not need to be read by only those who have read Alcott's novel, it is just as good for those who are unfamiliar the March sisters. But if you love Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and their angelic mother, you very may like "March."
not my favorite book.
i think that i love love love little women so much..this book had too much blasphemy in it for me to accept it as a good story.
and i HATED mr. march. it ruins little women for me if i hate him..so i can't hat him. but i hate him after reading this book!
if you like little women, i'm not sure this is the book for you. bleh bleh bleh.
i think that i love love love little women so much..this book had too much blasphemy in it for me to accept it as a good story.
and i HATED mr. march. it ruins little women for me if i hate him..so i can't hat him. but i hate him after reading this book!
if you like little women, i'm not sure this is the book for you. bleh bleh bleh.
I liked this perspective on the Civil War. Peaceful action, best intentions, unintended results. Life and what is right and what we should do about it is complicated!
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't know if I've read an author that makes me rage as much as Geraldine Brooks.
This book was like going on Fanfiction.net to look for Little Women fan fiction. Except, I've seen better written stories come out of fan fiction. This is title that would be dropped after the first chapter was published.
I have never read a more self-inserted sanctimonious racist of an author in my life. Geraldine Brooks will always get a no for me.
This book was like going on Fanfiction.net to look for Little Women fan fiction. Except, I've seen better written stories come out of fan fiction. This is title that would be dropped after the first chapter was published.
I have never read a more self-inserted sanctimonious racist of an author in my life. Geraldine Brooks will always get a no for me.
Really enjoyed Geraldine Brooks take on the fathers story from Little Women. The book begins with Peter March's early travels as a peddler from the North hawking his goods in the South. His experiences in the South lead him to become an abolitionist and become attracted to Marmee a strong willed woman with similar ideas and beliefs. The books talks of their marriage and the births of their four children - Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy, the Little Women girls from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women - and their friendship with the Thoreau and Emerson families. However the majority of the book is dedicated towards Peter's time as a chaplain in the Civil War and is Brook's imagined view of what Peter was really going through as he wrote the letters home to the Little Women, Brooks based a lot of Peter's character and experiences on the journals and other documentation of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson. Very well told story, engaging and captivating, a great work of historical fiction.
Beautifully written book about the father from Litte Women.
dark
emotional
funny
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An emotional gut punch and a fascinating look at an often-overlooked aspect of the Civil War. Mr. March and Marmee are mysterious figures in Little Women, and this book fleshes them out in rich and raw detail, presenting a gritty, less sanitized version of that world, but still with wry humor and beauty.