A review by bethgiven
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women by Kate Bolick, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley, Jenny Zhang
4.0
I am a little bit obsessed with Little Women. The book is good, but I particularly love any adaptations and commentary I can get my hands on. This book is a short collection of four essays, each by a different author and each devoted to one of the four March sisters.
It got me thinking of which March sister I was most like. I lamented to my husband (who has to hear all my inner thoughts on the books I read, bless him) that I’m likely the most a boring mix of Beth (appropriately enough) and Meg. I know Jo is everyone’s favorite, and I’d love to be such a confident and dedicated writer, but I’m really not. Nobody really wants to be Amy (though I always liked her fine?) (Makes sense, since I’m a Beth/Meg. Beth likes everybody and Amy was always Meg’s pet.)
Clean readers: I think there were two or three profanities in this one, if I remember right.
It got me thinking of which March sister I was most like. I lamented to my husband (who has to hear all my inner thoughts on the books I read, bless him) that I’m likely the most a boring mix of Beth (appropriately enough) and Meg. I know Jo is everyone’s favorite, and I’d love to be such a confident and dedicated writer, but I’m really not. Nobody really wants to be Amy (though I always liked her fine?) (Makes sense, since I’m a Beth/Meg. Beth likes everybody and Amy was always Meg’s pet.)
Clean readers: I think there were two or three profanities in this one, if I remember right.