Rose In Bloom - L.M. Alcott

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Title: Rose in Bloom Author: L.M. Alcott Genre: Classics Rating: 9/10 # pages: Ebook Date read: May, 2008

Summary: A sequel to "Eight Cousins," this book deals with Rose as she is on the threshold of womanhood - the pitfalls and the successes, including a little romance and learning to be an independent woman in an era where being "strong-minded" wasn't exactly encouraged.

Review: Both Rose and her cousins are almost too good to be true, but that doesn't matter, because one doesn't read LMA to get realism, but rather to escape real life for awhile and disappear into a world where people are just generally kind, and if not it's because of lack of thought rather than any real ill intent.

Rose in Bloom was a lot better than I remembered it, and has one of the sweetest love-making (of the old-fashioned type) chapters I've ever read. Sure to make any hopeless romantic sigh and wish for that kind of love in their own lives.

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[bookloversdiary.livejournal.com]

I love these books - have you read An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott? That's one of my favorites.

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have. It's one of my favourite too :)