Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
This one is easy. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is my favorite childhood novel. I must have read it a dozen times. I still have my childhood copy and the leather cover is worn around the edges. Did I love it because I was reading it as a child? Quite possibly. Kelly read it as an adult and you can read her (humorous) review here.
As a kid, I didn’t understand why Amy ended up with Laurie and not Jo. Or why Jo would fall for an old, crusty professor. Or how Meg could fall for a tutor! And why did she have such a hard time taking care of the twins and putting dinner on the table? As an adult, I totally get it.
It would be interesting to reread it now and see if I share Kelly’s opinion about Alcott’s obsessive moralizing. I don’t think I picked up on it as a kid as I had yet to become the cynical bitch I am today. Ha!
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January 22, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Wow. I don’t remember disliking the book as much as I clearly did. 😉
You should read Little Women and Me. It’s YA but really cute. (Girl actually enters the novel Little Women and sets out to change the mistakes—save Beth, make Laurie and Jo end up together.)
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January 22, 2012 at 10:58 pm
I do think it’s a book written for younger readers and I also think my deeply abiding affection for the book has to do with reading it so many times as a preteen. It’s been a while since I read it and it would probably be interesting to take another look now, as a slightly bitter, definitely jaded adult.
I will add that book on my “to read” list! 🙂
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January 22, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Totally already on my “to read” list – pretty sure I added it after your blog review!
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January 23, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Little Women & Me has the neatest idea ever. Who wouldn’t want to wake up in their favorite story?
(Well, me, I guess, given my fondness for Stephen King. I would not want to wake up in It.)
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