I think that is what happened for me too.

It didn't help that I had brothers 3 and 5 years older, too. I was always picking up their stuff and reading it. It's probably one of the reasons I was such a sci fi freak in my teens, it's about all I read exclusively.

Re NYC: what ever happened to La Nouvelle Justine? The sadomasochist themed restaurant? They had great, uhm, cheesecake.

Still there, as far as I know. (Although now that I think about it, it's been nearly 3 years since anyone I know was a regular there.)

I must have skimmed -- who's coming here? When?

Ah, the warmth of Little Women love. I had also meant to comment on AmyLiz's tag, because I almost used it myself for Christmas. I'm afraid I know a lot of Little Women by heart, because I read it (and Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl) whenever I'm sick or depressed.

You're never too old for Anne of Green Gables. Eventually you're too old for some of the sequels, because they're not as good when you're not in the white-hot flame of Anne love.

I still like young adult novels. For a while there, they and mysteries were the last bastions of the plot.

I always liked Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom more than Little Women. I'm not sure why. Perhaps I got ahold of the unabridged copy of LW and it turned me off. I haven't reread either of them in a while, I think the last time I did was in my 20's.

I started trying to reread all the Anne of Green Gables books a few months ago, but gave up after Anne's House of Dreams. That one, I mostly finished because I can't not finish a book once I've started it, unless it's really horrible, but I just couldn't find a reason to keep on reading beyond that.

Right now, I'm reading Phantom of the Opera, which is lots of ghosty fun.

Damn, y'all are talky meat! 350 posts! I'ma try to catch up, but I'm tired. And trying to be all "make a new year start at work by being in on time". Uh, we'll see.

I know a lot of Little Women by heart, because I read it (and Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl) whenever I'm sick or depressed.

Oh, exactly. It's my comfort food, like I said. I loved An Old-Fashioned Girl, but it's been ages since I read it, and I actually don't know where my copy is.

I've seen (I think) all the Little Women movies, too, including one made-for-TV one that must have been late '70s. I'm gonna have to look that up. I can picture the girl playing Amy but I can't remember her name.

I didn't come across Alcott until I was an adolescent, and I read her within a month of reading Jane Austen for the first time. I came away from it with, I recall, a definite impression that Regency English girls were way the hell less pi and noble-virgin than Civil War-era American girls. I got to appreciate her a bit more when I reread her a few years ago, though.

Love both Lucy Maud and Louisa. I think I have a copy of Rose in Bloom and one of Jo's Boys dating to the first decade of the 20th Century, that belonged to my grandmother.

, she went to go live with a very nice family who feeds her tuna fish all day long.

Lilty, I hope you just mean they take good care of her, because feeding her only fish is bad. Cats need taurine, a substance found in beef and other red meat, or they go blind. Fish-only diets have other nutritional deficiencies, too. Sorry about the cat-blather, but I couldn't let this one pass unremarked. I'll go mind my own business, now.