tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post1097081250616913756..comments2023-12-02T08:20:51.219+00:00Comments on Mel's Random Reviews: Little (occasionally annoying, sometimes infuriating) Women‏Melhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12232105105688358961noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-61699874703750999692011-11-22T22:47:59.142+00:002011-11-22T22:47:59.142+00:00You know if you take in the setting of the time, I...You know if you take in the setting of the time, I honestly don't think Jo HAD a promising career. It would be impossible for someone who still had to find ways of caring for the family to have a job such as that. Plus, the world they lived in was rebuilding and women were not welcome in what would be a "man's" job. Her chance would have been better during the war, but she was still a child then. It might have worked out for her later in life when women started getting a little more recognition. I would have to think on how old she would have had to be though... hm... something to ponder!<br /><br />Your view about them being goody goody is quite valid. That is why I still think it was a good child's book. I've always seen it as such because that is when I became acquainted with the March sisters. So, that part doesn't bother me too much as long as I continue to see it as such.<br /><br />Great thought out post!!Melissa (Books and Things)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00074452958853212024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-72977951775320236792011-11-22T20:53:15.934+00:002011-11-22T20:53:15.934+00:00Yes maybe this one is not for me, but then I have ...Yes maybe this one is not for me, but then I have never read it so I could not say how I would feel nowBlodeueddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03435479623560871881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-17755841918696794782011-11-22T18:29:58.120+00:002011-11-22T18:29:58.120+00:00Hah! I enjoyed reading this post very much. I so...Hah! I enjoyed reading this post very much. I somehow wasn't a fan at all when my mom tried to ply this book on me in my youth. I definitely wouldn't like it now, I'm pretty sure!<br /><br />On the Anne of Green Gables note, though: it remains one of my favorite classic novels for girls. I re-read it every couple of years or so, and while I know that my childhood nostalgia definitely informs the way I read it in adulthood, I think it stands up. I gave it to my husband to read a few years ago, which he did under protest. At least for the first few chapters, but then I couldn't pry his fingers away from the book. He loved it, too. <br /><br />Trust Mark Twain's judgment: Anne Shirley is one of the most delightful child creations in all of literature!As the Crowe Flies and Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110661562901480120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-31466803572014649022011-11-22T12:51:00.404+00:002011-11-22T12:51:00.404+00:00Sorry, my mistake. It's been a long time since...Sorry, my mistake. It's been a long time since I read it, and it must have got stuck in my head that it's set in America.Emmahttp://weareallinthegutter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8341428574937381261.post-82343682151406412222011-11-22T12:14:10.137+00:002011-11-22T12:14:10.137+00:00Definitely an interesting perspective on the book....Definitely an interesting perspective on the book. I haven't read all of it myself (as much as i have a fascination with the time period, I find most of the literature from it to be unbearably dry), but I can easily understand how morals can turn into preaching all too easily.<br /><br />I will point out, though, that Anne of Green Gables isn't really a classic American novel so much as a Canadian one, what with it taking place in Canada and all.Bibliotropichttp://www.bibliotropic.comnoreply@blogger.com