This was a childhood favourite.
Maybe because my own world was a little topsy turvy did it seems the the world of the March’s was a lovley place to inhabit.
Their trials were there for sure…but the loving unit they presented…it seemed a magical place to inhabit to me.
So it was with great expectations that I opened the first page.
By page two I knew I was in trouble.
The characters are still great. I still adore Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy. Mr Lawrence still makes me smile…but.
Perhaps because I am now an adult and cynical the truly GOOD parts of the book seem a little fanciful to me now.
The women I know marry the rich guy and end up bitter and twisted. A beloved sister dying doesn’t open up the writer’s soul in another but sends her in to a drunken spiral.
Yet I was not giving up. Tempted as I was to return to reading the “The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception” I persisted.
Somewhere around Amy falling in to the icy pond and Mr Lawrence delivering his dead daughter’s piano to Beth it began.
The magic.
The March’s world settled lightly upon my mind and its tendrils wound their way in to my soul once more and I remembered.
I struggled with the girls as they tried to be selfless. I understood their questions about what their places in their world meant to them and to others. My heart grasped their great love for their parents and the drive to win their love and approval.
I relearned some old lessons. Not to give up too easily. To search for the shadowy nuances that they can reveal themselves to you. I remembered that there is good everywhere if we push aside the curtain to reveal it to ourselves.
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Thank you for all your support.
Yes, it was wonderful and also I remember I watched a television series based on this book… No one writes something like that anymore… Thank you dear Jo, you took me my memories too… ıt is amazing, from now, 20th April 2012 to the past,.. With my love, nia
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I am really glad you enjoyed it Nia.
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Hello my friend!!
I invite you to tell me what does the word SUCCESS mean to you?
http://andreacarbax.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/success-the-challenge/#comments
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An interesting thought…I’ll be right over.
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I agree. The beginning of the book, when they are still children seems a little to saccharine to me. But once they start growing up and falling in love and having real problems that magic came back.
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That is very insightful…it is exactly what I felt.
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I only have hazy memories of Little Women for some reason. I love the cover design, those faces are very modern compared to the clothes!
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It is quite THE book that…I have never been able to part with it.
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I love this story. Each Christmas, I watch the movie. I’m not sure why since it always makes me cry. This novel is on my list, but I haven’t read it recently. I’m glad you ended up enjoying it–there’s hope for me 🙂 Last year I visited the home where she wrote the story. That was fun.
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Oh that’s sounds exciting…there are so many places I would love to visit…places where stories were created.
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I think I saw the movie once… 🙂
Great post hon!
*hugs*
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I have never seen this movie…might have to look for it one day.
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You can watch the trailer here : 🙂
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110367/
*hugs*
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or here : 🙂
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Christian Bale……dribble and drooling ALL over the computer.
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Whahahahaha! Good! Now you know what it feels like to clean up! hee hee
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I have watched it twice now…OMG that man is sex on legs…now where is the cloth…and don’t tell TBs.
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Whahahaha! Promise I won’t tell them! LOL!
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I loved it and even sexy Christian Bale played in it…and of course I love Wynona Rhyder. I remember her from Beetlejuice..heheheh
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Ahhhhhhhhhh…Beetlejuice…how I love that movie. it has another favourite of mine – Michael Keaton. The only other man who made anything of the Batman role.
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Oh yeah, love Michael Keaton…and of course Alex Baldwin! 🙂
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Hi Jo.. seems you and I read the same books. when I was young. 🙂 read those on your list too.. Little Women always a favourite as was Rebeca Another book too Tom Sawyer, and Uncle Ben’s Cabin! ,, well that last one was my brothers, lol, but I got my hands on it. :-)..
Enjoy your weekend. Hugs xx Sue
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Isn’t it lovely when you find the things you share with other…you have a good weekend as well Sue…rest that body !!!
LOL
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One of the first books to bring a tear to my eye. That, and Charlotte’s Web. Both tell stories of selfless love.
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I think I remember a sob or two when I first read it…who could hold back the tears at Beth’s death. Not even Joey from Friends was immune.
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“I remembered that there is good everywhere if we push aside the curtain to reveal it to ourselves.”
That is my greatest challenge in life.
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It is sometimes a challenge for me too !!!
But if I am lucky I have moments like these where I am reminded – if only for a bit…
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Great post JO. It is so interesting to go back and read a book that meant a lot to us and see it in a different light. I do think that sometimes books affect us different ways depending on where we are in our lives. Sorry to seem so serious after all the humor above! I loved the book too…as well as the Jane Austen books and Wuthering Heights!
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It has been fun so far to delve back in to these old favourites. I am a hopeless Jane Austen fan…love all her work and Wuthering Heights is way up there in being one of my favourite books of all times.
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