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When I opened the book and saw it was about American politics, I figured it would be boring but I'd try the first chapter anyway. Ended up reading and enjoying the whole thing. This is a book set in the United States during the First World War, though ...more |
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This one seems aimed at a younger audience than Little Women and has no connection to that series of books. It should appeal to both girls and boys. Would be a good read-aloud book. Most of the children seem fairly believable, but there is one young n ...more |
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"When I was 10 or so Little Women was my favorite book in the world. And I reread it throughout the decades, and still love it. But it has been awhile. So, picking up Under the Lilacs, which I somehow missed in childhood, I anticipated the delight of "
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"Louisa May Alcott's writing is so eloquent, she can make the seemingly trivial events of childhood appear momentous. And this book revolves solely around the lives of children: little girls at tea parties, boys in the mud, children listening to "pret"
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"This was a charming story, reminding me once again that Louisa May Alcott knew how to write. I read Little Women many times in my youth, but never got interested in the others of that series. I was surprised years later to read some of her short stor"
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A lost inheritance book with a twist. Orris has recently lost her father and is working for a living rather than accepting the marriage proposals from her cousin Dugald. This is made more difficult by a sponging widowed sister-in-law who stays with he ...more |
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| Lacks the humour of the other books I've read by this author. Rather depressing, actually, but I suspect true to life. Hyacinth is the only son of a poor Protestant clergyman in a poor fishing village somewhere in Ireland around the time of the Boer ...more | |
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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