I haven’t read Little Women since I was young, and even now I’m not sure it wasn’t just some abridged version. Either way, this reading has surprised me. It’s odd how much you change as you age, as your perceptions change, adapt, are sometimes intensified, and sometimes corrupted with maturation. Also, I’m having a rough time looking at this novel with an unbiased viewpoint because growing up the 1949 adaptation was one of my favorite movies. I haven’t seen it in years, but even back then I noticed how different it was from the book, but I didn’t care and I formed my judgments from it. It was weird imagining Liz Taylor as Amy, and now I can’t believe that it was June Allyson who played Jo and even crazier, Janet Leigh who played Amy. I think this book is going to be very difficult for me to take for face-value, because I loved this film, felt like I found kindred spirit in Jo, so much so that I even tried to change my name to Jo while I was growing up.