I loved this book… both the first and the second parts. Louisa May Alcott has a way of making you want to be a better person with characters who preach without preaching.

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I love love love the fact that at the end… the romance isn't "He got all his fortune back and the girl! NO! It's a proper, realistic ending with nothing too happy.". So very happy with the read and definitely recommend it to anyone who likes these sorts of books.

July 9-11, 2018
As a kid, I loved the rather moralistic tone of Alcott's book. As an adult, I got sick of it roughly halfway through. Still, this was a fun book to reread and see what I thought of it six years later.