I love how you read deeply and then so eloquently discuss your thoughts in a video. It's like going to a college seminar (minus the crippling student debt). Oh, and #plum :)
Hi! I know this is an old video, but I have loved little women to death for many years. Read it for the first time when I was 11 and then I read an audiobook of it when I was homesick my first year of college. I just finished reading March yesterday and could not be more obsessed; my mind was absolutely blown. I only just started watching your video but I can’t wait to hear what you say.. Funny thing is that I read with a women and then had to read parts of pilgrims progress for school, so I recognized it backwards!
A year later. I just found your channel and am so happy to find someone who thinks about books as I do. Can't wait to explore your other videos. As for Civil War novels, I just reread The Red Badge of Courage and despite my antipathy to battle scenes I thought it was brilliant. Give it a try.
I love both these books (I reread Little Women a million times as a child for comfort and at this point it's probably imprinted on the inside of my eyeballs), and I loved this video! I too appreciate Amy more as I grow older - I think the vocal Jo-loving contingent tend to see themselves and Jo as trying to break free from a system that isn't made for them, and they resent Amy because she slots into it so easily. Her talents suit just what a Victorian woman was supposed to be. But she has a wily streak, too - people don't realize that being likable and pleasant is WORK. Amy gets opportunities Jo doesn't not because she's naturally more likable (though that's a small part of it), but because she puts in the work to make people like her, and Jo has never thought that worth her time; she thinks people will like her or they won't. I love the new movie because it finally makes Amy a person instead of a plot device to steal Laurie from Jo!
I find your videos so informative. I love the conclusions and insights you give and will be picking up these two very soon, as well as a bushel of plums.
This video has made me so happy!! I appreciate your thoughts on both books and wished you had talked twice as long. PLUM. I reread LW last year and have read March. LW is like so many classics as they can be read for a lifetime and still give readers things to ponder. Thank you.
Plum terrific! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reviews. I was gifted 'little women' as a symbol of 'coming of age' book at the age of 10-11. It is a tradition within our family. I will go back and re-read it, at your suggestion.
Plum! Re-read Little Women before reading March. I find I continue to think about both novels...how each reflects the other, how each educates the reader in unique ways, how the story in each novel is important today, for different reasons.
Plum. This was so interesting and now I want to read both of those together as well as the bio of Alcott and her father I’ve been putting off. Thanks so much for this.
'plum" I agree with everything you said. I have recommended March to many people, as I think it is a unique and wonderful way to enhance, rehabilitate, or repair the experience of Little Women.
I am plum (or is it plumb?) amazed you didn't think we'd watch the whole thing. I've put off reading March for the same reasons you gave. I'm setting up a buddy read to ensure I get to it in 2021.
Thank you for your eloquent analyses and thoughts on these books! I love your ideas on how nostalgia functions within the two halves of Little Women as well as the positive role of sentimentality. Little Women holds such a special place in my heart, and I learn more and more from it as I get older. The omissions within Little Women are astounding, and examining the gaps in the story (race, war, Mr. March, etc.) add so much to the depth of what is present in the text. You have effectively convinced me to give March a try. It has been sitting on my shelves for far too long, but I was always afraid it would shatter my pleasant memories of Little Women rather than add to my understanding of the text. I would love for you to do an entire video series on Little Women and continue these conversations! You would have an entire audience of captivated plums. Have you read Little Men and Jo's Boys? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on those sequels as well of course.
Yup, I read Little Men and Jo's Boys when I was young but have never had the urge to reread the same way. I guess that the two volumes of Little Women always felt so perfect to me that I resisted imagining how things continued for the sisters after the final scene. I would love to hear your thoughts on the sequels though, so few people have read them!
This video was plum good. Wait is that how you use plum as an adjective??? Anyway. I watched the recent movie and am now unsure if I read the book, or the story just seeped in via the collected unconscious. I will have to read it to find out!
I read March for a class in high school and adored it, but it wasn't until this year that I finally picked up Little Women for the first time. It was great, obviously, but it didn't affect me the way March did. I don't even remember much of what happens in March, yet somehow I still think of it as a deeply nostalgic book, full of warmth (the way I imagine most people remember Little Women).
I read Little Women for the first time last year but never came around to reading Good Wives because it was not included in my copy and because the title felt so cringe. Your video just made me realize how much I missed, now I definitely have to get to it soon! After all this food for thought I'm very much in the mood for a plum now ... Greetings from Germany! ☺
You look very chic in this video. That headband has your bone structure singingggggg. Are you going the read My Phantoms? Gwendoline Riley's newest novel that comes out soon. She's the one who wrote First Love, which you didn't like hahaha. She's one of my fave authors. Haven't read Little Women or March, but it was lovely hearing you talk about them all the same xoxo
Wonderful commentary. I reread Little Women with my kids when they were younger (adults themselves now) and I was struck at that point with Marmee - as a mother of girls myself, suddenly she was the one I related to and wanted to be like! Have you read "Transcendental Wild Oats" (about the family's rather hilarious flirt with utopian communal living) or speaking of correspondence with Marmee, there's a book of LMA's real mother Abigail's correspondence called "My Heart is Boundless" that I've read about a third of and keep meaning to finish... I'm now interested in reading "March" - but have to ask, is the part you quoted about slavery spoken by the character of March or the southern guy he's visiting?
Thank you for the other reading suggestions, they weren't on my radar at all. And no, the quote about slavery is from the slaveowner that the young Mr. March stays with - March is an abolitionist throughout his life
I’m still working through the vapors as I unpack and process my feels and cogitate all there was within Addie La Rue, I guess I’ll make a plum pie 🥧? I think Victoria Schwab has crafted that kind of story. One where taking in the tale will be colored by where we are as a reader. I’ll eventually get to Little Women. Probably after reading Gatsby & This side of Paradise to celebrate GG going Public Domain. It is possible the uncomfortable journey tied to telling the story is part of the empathic reading journey. I know this is the case with Mexican Gothic. With all the unnecessary drama associated with The City We Became, it is uncomfortably prophetic with the decisions made in the 3rd act & how people in this country have acted & reacted this month. 🤐🤫 I’m aware it is an ask, but I am here & looking forward to all the longer form cogitations on your reads.
Plum. 😂 REALLY enjoyed your reviews. I’ve been holding off on reading March for the same reasons you had mentioned that you did. So you’ve convinced me to give it a go.
Loved this analysis. Am going to keep an eye out for a copy of March so I can pair it with reading Little Women, which I read over 25 years ago. Now I want plum jam on toast too. Better go eat breakfast!
Little Women is an all time favorite of mine. I’ve read it 3 times with the last time being around 20 years ago. I have had March sitting on my shelf for years but for whatever reason I just haven’t picked it up. After watching this video I am determined to! I shared this video with a friend who suggested we buddy read March. We’ve both had it on our TBR shelf for too long. So thanks for the inspiration! #plum 😊
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Michele and I recruited 3 others to read March in March. It was so worthwhile. I loved that she used Mr. Alcott as the model for Mr.March. How perfect is that?
This video reminded me of when I read March to re-read Little Women which I read in childhood. Still am yet to do so. But I can re-read both. And I had the same thought reading March, how much Little Women leaves out. How Mr. March seems so peripheral to their lives. And I kinda want the spoiler version of this one. Plum
this came at such a perfect time! i really want to read little women and also kate bolick's non fiction, the march sisters, which i believe is an essay collection. love these reviews so much. plum but also team limes
I just finished eating a plum bonbon!! 😀 you’ve given me much to think about with this video; my mom recommended me Little Women when I was a kid and I’ve avoided revisiting it for fear of tainting the wonderful memories I have associated with the book. But as you said, the adult mind might be better equipped to reckon with the themes of this book much more than a little girl who wanted to be a horror writer. One of the biggest lessons I remember taking from Little Women was that dignity was not tied to money, and that joy was not dependent on material wealth. the book inspired me and my cousin to put on our own plays with rags and old dresses, and as the sisters grow up I found myself wanting Jo’s desire for independence. I wonder how I’d see her character now that I’m an adult with my own share of neurosis and regrets. I might start with March and then revisit Little Women, and I’ll read a bit more about transcendentalism as well.
I love hearing that the messages about dignity and material wealth had a real impact on you as a child. Personally, what I took away from Little Women when I was young was that my brothers were a waste of space (I have a sister and two brothers) - I spent years thinking that if only they'd had the courtesy to be girls, we all could've been just like the sisters in Little Women
I've quite possibly read Little Women as much as you have, and each time I read it, I feel like I get a new relationship with it. I guess that is why it's such a sentimental book to me, even if it didn't have that specific authorial touch. I haven't read March, and I haven't really wanted to, but I think now would be a good time to pick it up. Also - plum.
What was I suppose to write? Apricot nation? Nah... That wasn't it... Apple pie sugar something... Well, next time maybe. The glorious comeback of the classic/modern pairings series ^^ It's really fascinating how the entire readerhood of North America has Little Women imbeded so much in the common psyche that asking which of the March sister someone sees themselves as is never met with werid stares even if said person only vaguely remembers the book form school days. It is not considered as big of a children's classic in other places as Anne of Green Gables for example. I wonder if maybe the reason it was avoided in school curiculum in Europe was the lack of school-based historical background on American Civil War (even if the book avoids the topic of it even more than other continents curriculum might). If I were to aks some of my friends which March sister they identify with most likely only the movie fanatics would respond. Little Women will always be that weird example of a book reading experience for me that got enriched by seeing the adaptaion. Which in my case lastly convinced me to read the book. I loved how the two managed to ring different tones even if they mostly covered the same events. What I will say is that my reading was partially disrupted as I was not aware Little Women only covers the childhood days and when I got to the end and learned that my copy is just a part one of the story arc I was so confused. Have you read any of the following books (Good Sons??? I think was one)? Are they worth a read? Jenny: "I can make the whole series on Little Women" for an audience of one" Me: I volunteer as a tribute Also #TeamAmy
I'm so happy to hear that, stop by with your thoughts if you do read March! Even if you don't end up liking it, I'm happy to take the hit on that one :)
I loved this video! I didn't read March but I read Little Women for the first time two years ago (when I was 27) not knowing much about the novel except that so many people love it and that it is often mentioned as a childhood favourite. I was so dissappointed! I found it overly religious and so preachy and moralistic that even though I really liked some parts of the novel I finished it not liking it at all. Then I watched the new film last year (and then the 1994 version shortly after that) and it made me think about it more. I think I appreciate it more now, not because of the films but because of all the thinking I did after watching the films. My favourite character has been Amy ever since I finished the book and my least favourite Marmee (I mostly blame her for the preachy and moralistic tones of the novel). SPOILERS AHEAD: I hated the fact that Beth died, not because it was sad or because I didn't want it to happen, but because I feel like Louisa May Alcott depicted her as someone with no plans, no wishes and no ambitions (while the other three sisters clearly had dreams - however big or small) - Beth only wanted to remain where she was and for nothing to change and then Louisa MayAlcott didn't know what to do with her when sisters grew up so she made her die. I also didn't like the intertwining of Joe's and Alcott's lives in the 2020 film and the fact that Professor Bhaer was made young and not at all bad looking. #plum
I completely get what you mean - I found a novel like Mary Barton super preachy, even knowing that it had a different sensibility for the time. Regarding Beth though, I partially agree but for different reasons. This is where the autobiographical aspect gets interesting - Alcott changed the names of her other two sisters in the story, but kept the name Elizabeth in honor of her sister who died young. I think with Beth she was trying to memorialize the quiet courage and strength of the sister she was closest to, and who she lost. You can see Alcott using the second volume to try to grieve and heal from that loss in a way she maybe hadn't yet, and in doing so she made that storyline too neat and Beth too much of a peaceful martyr (in my opinion). It seems to me to be a case of Alcott's own hang-ups getting in the way of her portraying Elizabeth as fully as she portrays her other two sisters. Another interesting detail though - the sister who inspired Amy, Abby May, actually died pretty young as well in childbirth. But Alcott purposely made Amy have one of the happiest and most fulfilling storylines of all - maybe it was a different but just as important way for her to handle another loss
I love Little Woman and I did associate myself to Beth when I first read as a child. I haven't reread it recently but the movie has made me appreciate Amy more. She is just an unloved little #plum.
I saw a sweater today whose color was plum. I read the book as a child. Didn’t know about the second book so thanks for the info. I have always been on team Jo maybe because I loved writing and felt her close to my own personality ? I didn’t see the movie last year because in my mind Jo is a brunette not a blond. Few heroines are brunette (Alice in Wonderland was a brunette but Disney turned it into a blond) like me. I learned a lot watching you thanks but was still looking for a glimpse of Lila ! Take care
Curious how you feel about Prof Bhaer and his character. His reactions to Jo's writing and other philosophers feels very out of place and never get faithfully adapted on screen...because well, he's unlikable in them.
Great video (plum)! I always loved Amy as a child and teenager. In my twenties I identified with Jo (although more the Jo of Good Wives than the Jo of Little Women), and now in my thirties I am increasingly fascinated by Marmee, despite having no children of my own. Have you read this brilliant essay on Marmee? www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/little-women-and-the-marmee-problem
No, I haven't read this article, thank you for sharing! And if you like Marmee then I really urge you to give March a go - imo she's the best part of the book
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Thanks - I had very mixed feelings about the only other Brooks novel I've read (Year of Wonders), but I'm willing to give her another try!
@@MishelleLexi Yes, I like both movies although I'm weirdly partial to the Winona Ryder one, even though it's objectively kind of worse than the new one. So once you've read the book I think it'd be really interesting to watch both movies and see what you think of them!
Which do u consider has more 'feelgoodism' attached to it, aka warm fuzzies: Little Women; Little House on the Prairie; Anne of Green Gables; or the TV show The Waltons? plum. How r u 4 plum pudding? :-) I think u love 'plum' 'cause u like to plum the depths of books, fic & non-fic. As I said years before, ILPH is a Top 10 best booktuber of all time!
I haven't seen The Waltons, but the other three books you mention are all pretty much tied for nostalgia. All favorites of mine. Another series in a similar category is the Shoes books by Noel Streatfeild
I love how you read deeply and then so eloquently discuss your thoughts in a video. It's like going to a college seminar (minus the crippling student debt). Oh, and #plum :)
Hi! I know this is an old video, but I have loved little women to death for many years. Read it for the first time when I was 11 and then I read an audiobook of it when I was homesick my first year of college. I just finished reading March yesterday and could not be more obsessed; my mind was absolutely blown. I only just started watching your video but I can’t wait to hear what you say..
Funny thing is that I read with a women and then had to read parts of pilgrims progress for school, so I recognized it backwards!
A year later. I just found your channel and am so happy to find someone who thinks about books as I do. Can't wait to explore your other videos. As for Civil War novels, I just reread The Red Badge of Courage and despite my antipathy to battle scenes I thought it was brilliant. Give it a try.
I love both these books (I reread Little Women a million times as a child for comfort and at this point it's probably imprinted on the inside of my eyeballs), and I loved this video! I too appreciate Amy more as I grow older - I think the vocal Jo-loving contingent tend to see themselves and Jo as trying to break free from a system that isn't made for them, and they resent Amy because she slots into it so easily. Her talents suit just what a Victorian woman was supposed to be. But she has a wily streak, too - people don't realize that being likable and pleasant is WORK. Amy gets opportunities Jo doesn't not because she's naturally more likable (though that's a small part of it), but because she puts in the work to make people like her, and Jo has never thought that worth her time; she thinks people will like her or they won't. I love the new movie because it finally makes Amy a person instead of a plot device to steal Laurie from Jo!
Really appreciate your nuanced appreciation and criticism for classics. Plum!
Jennifer glad to see you are doing better.
I find your videos so informative. I love the conclusions and insights you give and will be picking up these two very soon, as well as a bushel of plums.
A real plum of a video. Excited to see more deep dives like this in as 2021 progresses.
The plummest review of Little Women that I've come across. So good.
Is plumb (not like the fruit) ok too ? 😉 I havent read either book unfortunately 🤦♂️
This video has made me so happy!! I appreciate your thoughts on both books and wished you had talked twice as long. PLUM. I reread LW last year and have read March. LW is like so many classics as they can be read for a lifetime and still give readers things to ponder. Thank you.
Plum terrific! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reviews. I was gifted 'little women' as a symbol of 'coming of age' book at the age of 10-11. It is a tradition within our family. I will go back and re-read it, at your suggestion.
I love how deep and interesting your analysis are. It's definitely the first to actually made me want to read little women ksksk
Plum! Re-read Little Women before reading March. I find I continue to think about both novels...how each reflects the other, how each educates the reader in unique ways, how the story in each novel is important today, for different reasons.
Plum. This was so interesting and now I want to read both of those together as well as the bio of Alcott and her father I’ve been putting off. Thanks so much for this.
what books would be good to compare little women too! i have to do this for my essay in literature
'plum" I agree with everything you said. I have recommended March to many people, as I think it is a unique and wonderful way to enhance, rehabilitate, or repair the experience of Little Women.
I’ve been tempted to reread Little Women since the movie came out, but listening to you talk about the plum March has intrigued me even more.
Chosen plum over here who really appreciated your insight :)
I am plum (or is it plumb?) amazed you didn't think we'd watch the whole thing. I've put off reading March for the same reasons you gave. I'm setting up a buddy read to ensure I get to it in 2021.
I would be so curious to know what you think if you do get around to March this year, Judy. Be sure to stop by and share if you do!
Thank you for your eloquent analyses and thoughts on these books! I love your ideas on how nostalgia functions within the two halves of Little Women as well as the positive role of sentimentality. Little Women holds such a special place in my heart, and I learn more and more from it as I get older. The omissions within Little Women are astounding, and examining the gaps in the story (race, war, Mr. March, etc.) add so much to the depth of what is present in the text. You have effectively convinced me to give March a try. It has been sitting on my shelves for far too long, but I was always afraid it would shatter my pleasant memories of Little Women rather than add to my understanding of the text. I would love for you to do an entire video series on Little Women and continue these conversations! You would have an entire audience of captivated plums. Have you read Little Men and Jo's Boys? I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on those sequels as well of course.
Yup, I read Little Men and Jo's Boys when I was young but have never had the urge to reread the same way. I guess that the two volumes of Little Women always felt so perfect to me that I resisted imagining how things continued for the sisters after the final scene. I would love to hear your thoughts on the sequels though, so few people have read them!
This video was plum good. Wait is that how you use plum as an adjective??? Anyway. I watched the recent movie and am now unsure if I read the book, or the story just seeped in via the collected unconscious. I will have to read it to find out!
In the event you do read it I expect a twitter thread
I read March for a class in high school and adored it, but it wasn't until this year that I finally picked up Little Women for the first time. It was great, obviously, but it didn't affect me the way March did. I don't even remember much of what happens in March, yet somehow I still think of it as a deeply nostalgic book, full of warmth (the way I imagine most people remember Little Women).
I read Little Women for the first time last year but never came around to reading Good Wives because it was not included in my copy and because the title felt so cringe. Your video just made me realize how much I missed, now I definitely have to get to it soon! After all this food for thought I'm very much in the mood for a plum now ... Greetings from Germany! ☺
Yes you ABSOLUTELY have to read Good Wives! You have some great reading ahead of you for sure
You look very chic in this video. That headband has your bone structure singingggggg. Are you going the read My Phantoms? Gwendoline Riley's newest novel that comes out soon. She's the one who wrote First Love, which you didn't like hahaha. She's one of my fave authors. Haven't read Little Women or March, but it was lovely hearing you talk about them all the same xoxo
I didn't know Gwendoline Riley had a new novel coming out! Let me know what you think when you've had a chance to read it and I miiight consider ;)
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere will do!
Plum! I really enjoyed this video! You always speak so eloquently.
Wonderful commentary. I reread Little Women with my kids when they were younger (adults themselves now) and I was struck at that point with Marmee - as a mother of girls myself, suddenly she was the one I related to and wanted to be like! Have you read "Transcendental Wild Oats" (about the family's rather hilarious flirt with utopian communal living) or speaking of correspondence with Marmee, there's a book of LMA's real mother Abigail's correspondence called "My Heart is Boundless" that I've read about a third of and keep meaning to finish...
I'm now interested in reading "March" - but have to ask, is the part you quoted about slavery spoken by the character of March or the southern guy he's visiting?
Thank you for the other reading suggestions, they weren't on my radar at all. And no, the quote about slavery is from the slaveowner that the young Mr. March stays with - March is an abolitionist throughout his life
I thoroughly enjoyed your reading of the two, I haven’t read either (even though I loved the Greta Gerwig movie) and don’t plan to but plum?
You SHOULD do a video series on Little Women!
I read my first Geraldine Brooks some years ago - Nine Parts of Desire - what a plum of a book.
I've read People of the Book and Caleb's Crossing by her, but so far I think March is my favorite
I’m still working through the vapors as I unpack and process my feels and cogitate all there was within Addie La Rue, I guess I’ll make a plum pie 🥧?
I think Victoria Schwab has crafted that kind of story. One where taking in the tale will be colored by where we are as a reader. I’ll eventually get to Little Women. Probably after reading Gatsby & This side of Paradise to celebrate GG going Public Domain.
It is possible the uncomfortable journey tied to telling the story is part of the empathic reading journey. I know this is the case with Mexican Gothic. With all the unnecessary drama associated with The City We Became, it is uncomfortably prophetic with the decisions made in the 3rd act & how people in this country have acted & reacted this month. 🤐🤫
I’m aware it is an ask, but I am here & looking forward to all the longer form cogitations on your reads.
Plum!! Nice video and I notice there are many fellow Plums here :) I think you talked me into reading both books :)
I hope you enjoy them, and would love to hear your thoughts!
Plum. 😂 REALLY enjoyed your reviews. I’ve been holding off on reading March for the same reasons you had mentioned that you did. So you’ve convinced me to give it a go.
I love hearing that - hope you enjoy! I really think it only enhances Little Women without detracting :)
Loved this analysis. Am going to keep an eye out for a copy of March so I can pair it with reading Little Women, which I read over 25 years ago. Now I want plum jam on toast too. Better go eat breakfast!
With a name like Jo Reads you absolutely have to give March a try!
Plum 🙃. I need to read March ! I am about to read Marmee by Sarah Miller and i can't wait to dive in. I'll be rereading Little Women in December
Little Women is an all time favorite of mine. I’ve read it 3 times with the last time being around 20 years ago. I have had March sitting on my shelf for years but for whatever reason I just haven’t picked it up. After watching this video I am determined to! I shared this video with a friend who suggested we buddy read March. We’ve both had it on our TBR shelf for too long. So thanks for the inspiration!
#plum 😊
This makes me so happy! Hope you and your friend enjoy March, and if you don't I'm happy to take the blame ;)
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Michele and I recruited 3 others to read March in March. It was so worthwhile. I loved that she used Mr. Alcott as the model for Mr.March. How perfect is that?
This video reminded me of when I read March to re-read Little Women which I read in childhood. Still am yet to do so. But I can re-read both. And I had the same thought reading March, how much Little Women leaves out. How Mr. March seems so peripheral to their lives.
And I kinda want the spoiler version of this one. Plum
Plum! This was an amazing review/discussion. I’m a new subscriber now 💕
this came at such a perfect time! i really want to read little women and also kate bolick's non fiction, the march sisters, which i believe is an essay collection. love these reviews so much. plum but also team limes
I just finished eating a plum bonbon!! 😀 you’ve given me much to think about with this video; my mom recommended me Little Women when I was a kid and I’ve avoided revisiting it for fear of tainting the wonderful memories I have associated with the book. But as you said, the adult mind might be better equipped to reckon with the themes of this book much more than a little girl who wanted to be a horror writer. One of the biggest lessons I remember taking from Little Women was that dignity was not tied to money, and that joy was not dependent on material wealth. the book inspired me and my cousin to put on our own plays with rags and old dresses, and as the sisters grow up I found myself wanting Jo’s desire for independence. I wonder how I’d see her character now that I’m an adult with my own share of neurosis and regrets. I might start with March and then revisit Little Women, and I’ll read a bit more about transcendentalism as well.
I love hearing that the messages about dignity and material wealth had a real impact on you as a child. Personally, what I took away from Little Women when I was young was that my brothers were a waste of space (I have a sister and two brothers) - I spent years thinking that if only they'd had the courtesy to be girls, we all could've been just like the sisters in Little Women
You definitely made me want to revisit the classic. Your videos are superb, as a good plum 😂. Greetings from Spain!
Thank you, greetings from a snowy New York!
I've quite possibly read Little Women as much as you have, and each time I read it, I feel like I get a new relationship with it. I guess that is why it's such a sentimental book to me, even if it didn't have that specific authorial touch. I haven't read March, and I haven't really wanted to, but I think now would be a good time to pick it up. Also - plum.
I'd love to know your thoughts if you do give March a try!
Oh yes, plum all the way! I still need to read Little Women.
What was I suppose to write? Apricot nation? Nah... That wasn't it... Apple pie sugar something... Well, next time maybe.
The glorious comeback of the classic/modern pairings series ^^
It's really fascinating how the entire readerhood of North America has Little Women imbeded so much in the common psyche that asking which of the March sister someone sees themselves as is never met with werid stares even if said person only vaguely remembers the book form school days. It is not considered as big of a children's classic in other places as Anne of Green Gables for example. I wonder if maybe the reason it was avoided in school curiculum in Europe was the lack of school-based historical background on American Civil War (even if the book avoids the topic of it even more than other continents curriculum might).
If I were to aks some of my friends which March sister they identify with most likely only the movie fanatics would respond.
Little Women will always be that weird example of a book reading experience for me that got enriched by seeing the adaptaion. Which in my case lastly convinced me to read the book. I loved how the two managed to ring different tones even if they mostly covered the same events. What I will say is that my reading was partially disrupted as I was not aware Little Women only covers the childhood days and when I got to the end and learned that my copy is just a part one of the story arc I was so confused.
Have you read any of the following books (Good Sons??? I think was one)? Are they worth a read?
Jenny: "I can make the whole series on Little Women" for an audience of one"
Me: I volunteer as a tribute
Also #TeamAmy
Plums for sure!!!
Plum all the way!!
And Lila was plum AWOL... Thank you for this thoughtful chat anyway! Classic & contemporary pairings are my favorites!
Lila seemed wholly uninterested in Little Women, but I plan on reforming that part of her character
Thank you for making this. I was on the fence about reading March but I think I will give it a try now! Plum!
I'm so happy to hear that, stop by with your thoughts if you do read March! Even if you don't end up liking it, I'm happy to take the hit on that one :)
Plum! and love the end credits! x
I forgot to say "plum"!
I loved this video! I didn't read March but I read Little Women for the first time two years ago (when I was 27) not knowing much about the novel except that so many people love it and that it is often mentioned as a childhood favourite. I was so dissappointed! I found it overly religious and so preachy and moralistic that even though I really liked some parts of the novel I finished it not liking it at all. Then I watched the new film last year (and then the 1994 version shortly after that) and it made me think about it more. I think I appreciate it more now, not because of the films but because of all the thinking I did after watching the films. My favourite character has been Amy ever since I finished the book and my least favourite Marmee (I mostly blame her for the preachy and moralistic tones of the novel).
SPOILERS AHEAD: I hated the fact that Beth died, not because it was sad or because I didn't want it to happen, but because I feel like Louisa May Alcott depicted her as someone with no plans, no wishes and no ambitions (while the other three sisters clearly had dreams - however big or small) - Beth only wanted to remain where she was and for nothing to change and then Louisa MayAlcott didn't know what to do with her when sisters grew up so she made her die.
I also didn't like the intertwining of Joe's and Alcott's lives in the 2020 film and the fact that Professor Bhaer was made young and not at all bad looking. #plum
I completely get what you mean - I found a novel like Mary Barton super preachy, even knowing that it had a different sensibility for the time.
Regarding Beth though, I partially agree but for different reasons. This is where the autobiographical aspect gets interesting - Alcott changed the names of her other two sisters in the story, but kept the name Elizabeth in honor of her sister who died young. I think with Beth she was trying to memorialize the quiet courage and strength of the sister she was closest to, and who she lost. You can see Alcott using the second volume to try to grieve and heal from that loss in a way she maybe hadn't yet, and in doing so she made that storyline too neat and Beth too much of a peaceful martyr (in my opinion). It seems to me to be a case of Alcott's own hang-ups getting in the way of her portraying Elizabeth as fully as she portrays her other two sisters. Another interesting detail though - the sister who inspired Amy, Abby May, actually died pretty young as well in childbirth. But Alcott purposely made Amy have one of the happiest and most fulfilling storylines of all - maybe it was a different but just as important way for her to handle another loss
if you were to make a whole series on Little Women you would definitely have an audience full of plums!
I love Little Woman and I did associate myself to Beth when I first read as a child. I haven't reread it recently but the movie has made me appreciate Amy more. She is just an unloved little #plum.
Great video! Plum. 😊
I saw a sweater today whose color was plum. I read the book as a child. Didn’t know about the second book so thanks for the info. I have always been on team Jo maybe because I loved writing and felt her close to my own personality ? I didn’t see the movie last year because in my mind Jo is a brunette not a blond. Few heroines are brunette (Alice in Wonderland was a brunette but Disney turned it into a blond) like me. I learned a lot watching you thanks but was still looking for a glimpse of Lila ! Take care
I'll endeavor to include more glimpses of Lila where I can ;)
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere oui !!! merci !
I've been thinking I should do a reread of Little Women, and I think this video just helped convinced me. Also, plum
I always, always endorse a reread of Little Women :)
Definitely Plum !
I love when you these !!!!!!!!!!!
Curious how you feel about Prof Bhaer and his character. His reactions to Jo's writing and other philosophers feels very out of place and never get faithfully adapted on screen...because well, he's unlikable in them.
plum 😊
Great video (plum)! I always loved Amy as a child and teenager. In my twenties I identified with Jo (although more the Jo of Good Wives than the Jo of Little Women), and now in my thirties I am increasingly fascinated by Marmee, despite having no children of my own. Have you read this brilliant essay on Marmee? www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/little-women-and-the-marmee-problem
No, I haven't read this article, thank you for sharing! And if you like Marmee then I really urge you to give March a go - imo she's the best part of the book
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Thanks - I had very mixed feelings about the only other Brooks novel I've read (Year of Wonders), but I'm willing to give her another try!
Little plums all around.
I do love a good plum 😂
Plum! 😀
PLUM 💜
Fantastic video. #plum 😋
¡Ciruela!
Your radiant, plum expression!
Plum. 😂😂😉😍😘
thank you for your excellent videos - you always make me think : ) #plum
Loved this. #plum
Plum 😊
Searching for the scent
of the early plum,
I found it by the eaves
Of a proud storehouse.
- Matsuo Bashō
#google_search
I'm going to read Little Women this year :) #plum haha
Everyone should always be rereading Little Women as far as I'm concerned! :)
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere random question but did you watch the movie? I was planning on watching it afterwards.
@@MishelleLexi Yes, I like both movies although I'm weirdly partial to the Winona Ryder one, even though it's objectively kind of worse than the new one. So once you've read the book I think it'd be really interesting to watch both movies and see what you think of them!
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere Okay cool I do love Winona Ryder! (who doesn't) I'll let you know what I think.
Which do u consider has more 'feelgoodism' attached to it, aka warm fuzzies: Little Women; Little House on the Prairie; Anne of Green Gables; or the TV show The Waltons? plum. How r u 4 plum pudding? :-) I think u love 'plum' 'cause u like to plum the depths of books, fic & non-fic. As I said years before, ILPH is a Top 10 best booktuber of all time!
I haven't seen The Waltons, but the other three books you mention are all pretty much tied for nostalgia. All favorites of mine. Another series in a similar category is the Shoes books by Noel Streatfeild
#TeamAmy #TeamLimes
🍋
Plum 💘 (but also still Team Limes)
@@MatthewSciarappa I went with 🍋 because 💚+🍋 or 🤢+🍋 would be too abstract... for me at least.
Plum. 😀
plum 3
Plum!
plum
Plumb bob
Plum.
Plum
plum
Plum!
Plum
Plum
Plum
Plum
Plum
Plum