Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 20, 2015

Nope. Sorry. No shortcuts. That is one of those books everyone should read. Like Great Expectations or Grapes of Wrath. You will thank whoever later.

Good try, but I was on to her in panel 2!

And there are those that still ascribe to that .

Sorry. Mr March wasn’t fighting in the Civil War. Working for the hospital or something.

Close enough. How long ago did she read this book?

I wanted to be Amy because I was artistic.

I was so pissed at Jo when she turned down Laurie – or what ever his name was. It’s been well over 70 years since I read “Little Women”.

French and English schools don’t have the same list of classics. I read a lot of Baudelaire( dislike) , Hugo (like) Dumas (like), Camus (so-so), Flaubert.Anouih, with some newer writers then:Clavet, Troyat, Never read Little Women, saw the movies.

well, at least Holly ain’t shortcutting even more by watching the movie of “Little Women”

Mr. March was an army chaplain. I still have the copy of Little Women I got as a birthday gift 45 years ago. It was my favorite book as a girl and teen. It is still one of my favorites. I read it so many times that I had whole paragraphs of it memorized. I identified with Jo but wanted to be good like Beth.

Sorry Holly.

I couldn’t get through it. I really did try. It was boring. And since I new that Jo wasn’t going to marry Laurie, I wasn’t motivated to let myself go through that disappointment.

Have not read. Know the basic story. It is now on my snowy, winter reading list. It many ways so relevant today – spouse in the military away from home for an extended period of time and family members trying to make it through life on their own.

If only there was a book that took whole novels and shortened them…take most of the stuff out and leave notes on the important stuff…it can be like notes..

or a way to watch the books be played out…like a picture that moves

or a thing that you can find everything you ever need to know on a box with a type writer

Hang in there, Holly. Who knows? You might wind up liking the characters and being sorry the book ended.

Just Flag him like I do.

Read Little Men as well as Little Women. Liked LW better as I recall. Probably 65 years ago.

Funny – I read Little Women once, having been an English teacher for a short time, but can’t really remember it all that well. I have read comments about it through the years, but won’t give away anything in case someone wants to read it.When I was quite young, I got hooked on the Sherlock Holmes series, as well as the Albert Payson Terhune books about Lad of Sunnybank Farms and other collies. Years later I reread a Doyle story or so, and IMHO it was a bunch of piffle (sorry, Irregulars, but I can’t help what I think), and Terhune was the biggest misogynist around. Alice in Wonderland is still great, but when I reread it years later, the Freudian stuff made me spiral-eyed.

I have Little Women book and cannot understand most of what is written, there are pictures in my book throws me. None of my family talks like the author wrote.

Nice try, Holly. I have to admit, my mom did spoon-feed me two of my book reports in the 8th grade. She got 100% on both. Book reading is just no fun when it’s homework. I did read one of the books a couple of times, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. It’s really good. I’ve also read Little Women a couple times and last time even read Little Men and Jo’s boys. I need to find Blue Willow, the other book report my mom “wrote” for me.

Nice try, Holly. Now read the book and write the report.

That was clever on Holly’s part. Not particularly effective, but clever.

Better luck next time to her.

two words, Holly…Cliff’s Notes! my senior HS English teacher forced fed us The Canterbury Tales in Old English. thank God for Cliff’s Notes.

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy (Jo: Katheryn Hepburn, June Allison, Winona Ryder )

Had 2 of 3 movies on VHS, Santa bringing me all 3 on CD, this year.

Love watching them on a snowy day.