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For week 3 of Nonfiction November, the focus is Be The Expert/ Ask the Expert/ Become the Expert and is hosted by Veronica at The Thousand B...

I read Little Women in February, counting it for the Back to the Classics challenge category of Family . So let's talk about the March ...

In May, I read Harriet Reisen's excellent biography of Louisa May Alcott,  Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women , and hav...

For someone who spent the better part of my life avoiding reading Little Women and hence Louisa May Alcott, I seem to have been doing a...

As part of my Civil War reading, I am trying to mix it up between fiction (contemporary and historical), non-fiction, memoir, war and soci...

I love Mondays because I love Mailbox Monday--it's such fun to bop around the blog-o-sphere and see what everyone else is excited abou...

It just so happened that I read March , by Geraldine Brooks, and Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War , by To...

Last week a business trip took me to Boston so I seized the opportunity and asked my husband to go out with me a few days early for a...

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father , by John Matteson, was every bit as good as I hoped and expected. Comi...

Somehow I never read Little Women as a child and so entered my teen years determined to scorn it for its notorious goody-goody nature. And...