Yesterday at lunch, I read a bit of Little Women aloud to the children. I think that any woman who enjoyed this book as a girl should read it again as a mother. I hardly noticed Marmee during my many youthful readings of the book. She didn’t interest me except insofar as her actions advanced the plot concerning the girls and the Laurence boy, who were far more interesting to me. But Marmee is, in many ways, an ideal mother, and Continue Reading…
January 6, 2010I recently began reading Little Women aloud to my children during lunch. We usually have a lunch book going, but this is the first time I have dared to read…a “girl” book. For years I spent time building up a library of boy books for our oldest, knowing that I had a number of desirable treasures from my own youth hidden away for our girls. Recently, our four-year-old daughter became interested in longer works. Whereas previously she merely tolerated book-length read Continue Reading…
November 17, 2009
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