I am participating in the American Cancer Society Read Every Day challenge. This is an easy one for me, as I read every day anyway! So I am blogging my reading this month in the hopes that you might enjoy my literary journeys, and that you might consider supporting my fundraiser to fight cancer and support cancer patients through Relay for Life. Go to main.acsevents.org/goto/elizabethdonald to read my essay and donate.
Feb. 6
Back to the Alcott, and I wouldn’t say it’s grabbing me, but I reopened it intending to speed read and ended up just reading a chapter. I still think Polly is an unrealistic “perfect girl,” and we are meant to see how the horrible family softens and learns the true meaning of whatever from her, but it hasn’t happened yet.
I will probably finish it, if only for the challenge, but I am hard pressed to see the iconoclastic voice of Louisa May Alcott in this book. Perhaps it was one she wrote for money – we all have them. I have one novella that should have “Elizabeth needed cash to go to Dragoncon” stamped on every page. Still, I was hoping for a new favorite.