1.) Little Women ★★★★2.) Good Wives ★★★★-----------------------------------------------so wholesome.

I love this book. I mean, the fact that I've read it five times now does say something about how I much I love it...

OMG! How could Louisa May Alcott do this? How could she ruin Jo like this? Okay, so Good Wives is a lot like Little Women. We find out how the girls change as they grow up unfortunately the change is not for the best. Beth dies, Meg becomes a mom, Amy grows up to be the beloved of everyone and Jo, the wild, lively Jo is turned into a model of domestication and marries a freaking forty year old man!!!!This is unfair. Why did the author do this to Jo? I always thought Jo should marry Laurie and it...

(I Recommend this book which is the second part of little women for everyone and for my future children! Because this part of French edition is not available.When i was a child I watched little women and in comparison to the animation , half the book appeared to be missing! Good Wives takes off about three years after where Little Women left off. Each girl is struggling with her own problems. The stories are all about girls being obedient, self governing, faithful to God and developing chara

"hope can comfort love and faith make resignation possible." One of the reasons as to why I love Romance classics despite their slow pace, is that there is a closure to every story that begins within the main story. And I like my books with a closure, except maybe a thriller or a mystery, which is understandable. I have next to zero appreciation for romance novels where the author introduces side characters and then leaves them adrift or totally ignored towards the ending, and I think that's

[Spoilers up ahead! Though I advise you to read them so maybe they can convince you to never read good wives]I'm so happy this book is over, because this little book gave me so much heartaches, headaches and agony I couldn't bear to read it more than a chapter at a time and it took ages to finish.Though it wasn't my first time reading this book, It still struck me as much as the first time.I remember when I was 11-12, I loved little women with all my heart -though not a favorite book- It still h...

“I'm not a show, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticize my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. I'm too happy to care what anyone says or thinks, and I'm going to have my little wedding just as I like it.”- Margaret March (Meg)* * *“I may be mercenary, but I hate poverty, and don't mean to bear it a minute longer than I can help. One of us must marry well. Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round.”- Amy Curtis March* * *“Well, the winter...

If Little Women created my heart, Good Wives tore it apart.This book stole away a whole lot of the beautiful charm that Little Women had for me. I simply couldn't bear with Jo's refusal to marry Teddy, because that's what I expected from them and a part of what I adored them for. I've always believed that love is friendship, and I hoped their heart-warming story from when they were children would have the future of a beautiful love. I'd be happier if Teddy hadn't ever fallen in love with Jo, and...

The sweet, playful March sisters have grown up. Meg has married and is now a mother, Amy travels to Europe to refine her agreeable upbringing, Jo earns her living writing disposable best-sellers, even if the novel she had been working on is dismissed by the editors again and again. And Beth keeps struggling with her ill health. There is not a single chapter where something of interest is brought to the reader’s attention, and as the novel progresses, the characters bloom into fragrant, colorful

4****“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”It was great to see how each March sister grew up, transformed and learned in their young adult/adult years. An important point of this novel was the economic situation for women and the time and how this was usually the basis for many decisions.It might be controversial but I loved Amy in this one! She was the most pragmatic and logical- she understood that to look after her family she would...

I don't know why I hold the second part so close to my heart, but there's just something special about seeing the girls grow and fully become themselves!

The problem with any series is that once you’ve read the first book, the others can’t stand on their own – you’re always comparing them to the original one. In the PDF version I have, Good Wives is not a separate novel, as it was originally; it begins somewhere after page 400, right after the end of Little Women, without even a section break. I think I’m disappointed, but I’m also not. I knew what was going to happen before it happened. I suppose that’s why people don’t like spoilers – what they...

Oh, the treasure trove of lessons there are to be gained by old books! It's been years since I last read either Little Women (or it's unknown-to-me-sequel), and I'm much ashamed for it. Oh what I have been missing all this time! But still, sometimes it's nicer to wait and discover so many more treasures for the waiting in the meantime.Now that I'm all grown up – but as yet still unmarried – I enjoyed reading how the Little Women grew up and seeing Meg's daily struggles as a young wife and mother...

This tugged at the heartstrings 😭. Little Women is definitely a new favorite. 💖

This book took all that was good about Little Women and crushed it, grinding the sharp pieces of my despair right in my face. It's so bad I can't pick up Little Women without remembering this book and knowing that everything I read is a filthy lie and that all happiness shall soon cease to exist.I want to purge my memory of Good Wives, but I can't. I wish I'd never read it. If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and slap this book out of my own twelve year old hands. And once that was done

Also published in "A Cup of Coffee and a Book"Where to start? This book was beautiful I couldn't help myself finishing it the way I did. Knowing the movie, I already knew the end, but the end of the book (being slightly different from the movie - I love the movie version though) was so overwhelmed for me I was grinning like a child at the outburst of romance that came out of the pages.Contrary to "Little Women", "Good Wives" pace was easier to follow. Despite having a few chapters that you can s...

To start with, I could hardly figure out whether I should write a review or a blog post about author intrusion. Alcott lapses so easily into her own personal musings about her characters' strengths and weaknesses, sometimes taking up pages of text. These days, publishers and editors warn authors to cut out their subjective opinions and let readers make up their own minds. Lucky for Louisa she lived in the nineteenth century then. If she wasn't allowed to tell us how to direct our thoughts, the b...

~ 1.5 stars ~This review is only based upon part 2 of Little Women. My copies of this series splits book 1 into two volumes, Little Women and Good Wives. And my opinions on Little Women compared to Good Wives, despite them being techniqually the same book, are vastly and drastically, different. ***Spoilers ahead***I hated this book. It really had potential to be a new favorite as I adored part 1. But then everyone became a grown up and annoying as hell. Then becoming older was glow down. It lost...

Well, strictly speaking this book is part of Little Women, so I should not treat this as a different book.What I would add to my review of Little Women is that as the girls are growing up, the horizon is broadening (or in some of their cases, shrinking) so we see more of the outside world and are offered a bigger chunk of society around them, if not by much. This and also the character development makes it more interesting and while still occasionally didactic, it advocates valid, true values ne...

I read the two parts as separate books, and as a whole it's definitely a 5 star book and one of my new favourites. However, once you know what really made Alcott write that ending, this second part can be bittersweet. Nevertheless, this book made me cry rivers and love these grown little women even more. Can't wait to re-read it again and again.