A.H.Black
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Can someone please remind me what the "skating" novel was a while ago (a year?) that several people talked about and reviewed. Was it "Blade"?
As the Page Turns (the Book Thread)
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Someone made a modern murder mystery out of Little Women. It sounds so unhinged, I might have to read it just for funsies.(It wouldn't be the first LW retelling I've read!)
I stayed home sick today and ended up finishing the book this afternoon. If you take out the Little Women angle, I’d call it a solid YA mystery. I didn’t guess the ending too early but also didn’t feel like it came out of nowhere. It’s not my usual genre, but I liked it enough that I’d pick up another book by this author.
The LW tie-in is more interesting than most straight retellings because part of the storyline is that the girls’ dad has written a controversial book about them called (of course) Little Women. A huge part of the storyline is how they’re each dealing with strangers’ perceptions of them, the way they’re misunderstood or reduced to stereotypes in the online discourse, and of course any of us reading this book as fans of the actual Little Women are also implicated in that because we know them as characters in a book too. Since a lot of us have seen/read multiple adaptations over the years, I thought it was a really fun approach to consider the way these characters have been imagined and reimagined.
Wyliefan
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Interesting choice to make their dad the author instead of Jo!
Jo is still a writer in her own right! I didn’t love the idea of their dad as the author of the book in the beginning, but I ended up thinking it worked pretty well. The way each of the girls navigates her own ambitions in the wake of his book’s publication is probably the most important thread in the story.
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