So, Little Women has never been my thing. And it seems Louisa Mae Alcott felt similarly. This was a book club read and I am so happy it was because I learned a lot about her. This is her actual account of her time as a nurse during the Civil War. It was interesting and at times comical. Through discussion, I also learned that her family counted Thoreau, Emerson, and Hawthorne as close friends and that she wrote “lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge” under a pen name. She was considerably more interesting than I ever gave her credit.