Please excuse my punctuation; my comma key no longer works! It takes the right person in this day and age to appreciate what Louisa May Alcott can/could do. That is she can say in 30 words what it would take us 4 or 5 words to say today! lol But what she says is vivid comical and moving. She is/was able to take a common boring everyday event and make it humorous! She is not in the slightest averse to poking at herself either.

I particularly loved her account of John the Virginian blacksmith's heroic death. It was incredibly moving and inspirational. I also appreciated the few paragraphs she wrote in defense of her "colored brothers and sisters". Living in 1863 I think she (and her family) was fairly progressive for her time. I think I need to include some of her best known writings as re-reads on my list this year.