Book Notes

Now that I’ve finally read March, no one is talking about it anymore. They’re conversing about her new one. I’ll have to add that one to my ever growing list of books to read. March was decent though. It takes the father from Little Women, and gives an account of his life at war, and his life before he met and married Marmee, and the back history of how they came to lose their fortune.

It worked really well as a novel. Brooks was at her best chronicling slavery and March’s bystander observation of it. It got a little long for me at the end. I was tired of him, and reading about him. Just in time Brooks brought in Marmee as our new narrator. That helped considerably. Glad to have finally read what everyone was once talking about.