A review by msmandrake
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special Publication by Kate Bolick, Carmen Maria Machado, Jenny Zhang

2.0

Yeah, well this was okay, just like two stars say. The first essay was fine, the second I started to bog down on, the third was full of medical horror stories...lose me quickly with that, and by the fourth I was just beaten down, okay, whatever. These are fictional characters, y'all. (Yes, I know it is semi-autobiographical.) Now I get that reading this as a child is a different experience then reading it as an adult. Knowing about the life of Louisa May Alcott adds a totally different dimension, sure, but she was writing to sell books and she WAS a woman of her time, no matter how "forward thinking" or "oppressed and constrained" she was, and she was trying to sell books and please publishers and an audience and make money, so all this speculation and analyzation and comparing of oneselves to the characters makes me a little crabby, I guess. Also makes me think of those annoying quizzes, Which Sex In the City/Harry Potter/Disney Princess are YOU?