I probably judge Little Men unfairly because, well, it's just not Little Women. I think I was expecting to much of it. I was also upset by, and this is silly, the fact that Jo turned down Teddy's proposal which then led me to view Jo's and the professor's relationship negatively. So it had a big strike against it to start with for me. Let's be honest, it's hard to top something as good as Little Women. I gave it 3 stars, it probably deserved four.

I didn’t know this existed asdfghkklvbut at the same time, super worried to read this bc I’ll likely not like it :/

I found this book to be even more entertaining and heart-warming than Little Women (and I loved, loved, loved that book!). Little Women, of course, is a pre-requisite to Little Men. However, my 10 year old boy read Little Men first and still absolutely fell in love with the book and all the characters. Now, he is inspired to read Little Women (something he felt sure boys would not read)My 13 year old girl read Jo's boys (sequel to Little Men)---loved it as well!Here is my Little Men review I pos...

Little Men is, technically, the sequel to Little Women and picks up a good numbers of years later, after Jo March and her husband, Professor Bhaer, as they start their school at Plumfield, the house that originally was owned by Jo’s Aunt March. The novel opens when Nat, a street-bound boy with an amazing ability to play the violin beautifully, shows up on Jo’s doorstep, and from then on out the story features a stable but large group of kids and their kind and guiding adult influences. The Bhaer...

I adore the book 'Little Women'. I read that when I was much younger. I have read much more widely since then and I have become accustomed to the modern pacing. My point is, I think I would have enjoyed this a little bit more when I was younger. As a modern reader, pacing and stories have changed. This is a fairly outdated story. It was wonderful characters and lovely language, but it comes off, now, as a bit preachy and slow. The author at one point admits that their isn't a whole lot of plot i...

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (Little Women #2), Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - March 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Wome...

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.Little Men ~~ Louisa May AlcottAs part of my BIG BOOKS GOAL for 2021 I decided to read all four of the books that comprise Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN SERIES. In fact, I kicked off the year, & this goal with this series. The third in the series is Little Men ~~ the greatly underrated, overlooked sequel to the beloved Little Women (Good Wives). Honest...

Although I have definitely for the most part rather enjoyed Louisa May Alcott's Little Men and do therefore also consider it both a successful sequel to Little Women and also what I would consider an interesting and delightful late 19th century American boarding school story (and yes, a school story that really does descriptively and with much textual pleasure demonstrate how at Jo and Professor Bhaer's Plumfield, not only book learning and lessons are important and cherished, but also how the s...

Enjoyed it 😋 but little bit lesser than Little Women

There is not another book in all of literature that I hold as dear as this one; I never expect to find another that gives me half as much pleasure. It would be impossible to count how many times I've read it over the years (it has to be dozens and dozens by now), and it remains a locale of constant pilgrimage, as I still return to it at least once a year. I'm always a bit nervous whenever I take it up again that my education of postmodern "isms" will have made me suddenly immune to its charms (a...

Note, July 26, 2019: I've just edited this review to correct a chronological error --thanks for pointing it out, Shannen!Although this is the second novel of Alcott's Little Women trilogy (Part 2 of Little Women, the first novel, was first published separately as Good Wives, but after that, the two were published as a unit), I read it first, and at about the age of eight; it was one of the earliest books I read by myself that I can actually remember. (As I sometimes say, I "cut my teeth" as a re...

Reading this book felt so right! There are not lots of books out there that you can say this about.I could totally feel those old feelings that I used to get when I was first reading Little Women. The atmosphere was so familiar and fortunately, this fact didn't make it a boring read. My only problem with it was (SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!) (I'm gonna give you some space so that you don't accidentally read it) ........John Brooke's death. I mean, why?!?!???!

When I was in the 5th grade, my mother gave me this book. Granted, it was an abridged version for children, but it was a CHAPTER BOOK, and was REALLY LONG, and was the first - absolute first - classic story that I'd ever read. I spent the next two years reading this book over and over again.I remember having a Snoopy sticker - the nicest sticker I'd ever seen of Snoopy - and stuck it to the front cover of my book to mark it as my own.30 years later, I read Little Women. Which I loved. And a week...

I should have known from the title that this book will not be about my precious girls but about the little boys in Jo's school.The main characters of little women were scarcely mentioned. still, I enjoyed this cute book about these goodhearted boys. I enjoyed reading about a jo as a loving mother and wife.I love how Louisa may Alcott always manages to make her characters this loveable

Do yourself a favor, o learned reader of mine: if you love Jo from "Little Women" with as much fervor as her progenitor, Bronson Alcott's famed and very original daughter*, then do not read this sequel. Its like the "Go Set a Watchman" of its time. But worse! Uninspired drudge, it makes one compelling argument about why girls lead more substantial, prettier lives than nasty-ass booger-faced boys.* She allows the little ladies-in-a-making cook for & entertain her little men at Plumfield. ENCOURAG...

While this doesn't quite have the same magical quality of its predecessor, I did find a lot to love in Little Men. While I wouldn't have minded a bit more time with the March sisters (who of course are no longer March's), I soon found myself swept up in the antics of Jo's pupils. This was a peaceful book to read, and I found it a nice thing to start the day with. The overall tone of the book is pleasant and warm, and proved to be lovely way to wake up my brain. Of the new characters, Nat and Dan...

August 2016 - re-listened with the kidsFor the last 20 years this book has been one of the greatest influences over my life. The moral lessons, as are commonplace in Alcott's writing, are tender and sweet. The storytelling is so enjoyable. The characters are lovable and easy to invest in. Taken together, however, the effect is downright inspiring. LMA has proven that she knows and loves boys and their pranks as much as she loves girls and their many complexities. I am a better mother, a better t...

Presenting Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Men’ in which very little happens for four hundred-or-so pages. It’s a perfectly pleasant lazy day read for all that.

This was...boring. You can tell Alcott's heart just wasn't into writing this the way it was with Little Women. It's episodic, which doesn't bother me, except that the 'episodes' don't make you feel any closer to any of the characters. The only ones I felt close to were carry-overs from Little Women--Jo, Laurie, Fritz, etc. The kids all sort of blended together after a while, and I wasn't really invested in any of them. Spoiler in this sentence-->The death of John Brooke felt like it was thrown i...

I have always enjoyed these classic books. They were originally written for older children and the easy language and innocent themes reflect this. This is the 3rd in the Little Women series and follows the lives of grown-up Jo, her husband and the 12 boys and 2 girls that she teaches in her boarding school. It is full of traditional morals and is highly didactic. It is essentially a collection of short stories. As a mother, these books remind me of some of the traditional values that I want to t...