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Truly need to write my own winter train novel because I return to this one seasonally out of sheer desperation, despite so much I do not like about it.

What happened to Beth (no spoilers!) still made me get teary eyed all these years later...

Amy & Laurie hooking up because of it ... 🤮

This book meant so so much to me as a child and teenager, but gosh so much of it has not aged well. It's not just that Amy is insufferable and her romance with Laurie clumsily written and grating. It's that the regressive ideas about "women's duties" are so opposite to what I remembered. Lol clearly the 1994 movie is what's stamped in my memory.

Sadly not enjoying this reread.

Gosh I love this book so much but it is so hard to see Jo and Laurie not end up together. I get why Alcott did it. But still... it won't ever feel right to me.