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Date: 2007-05-01 03:04 am (UTC)
Ooooh, Louisa May Alcott. Little Women isn't one of my favorites (although I blame that on the trauma of discovering, at the age of 12, that the version I'd been reading had been abridged, not on any fault of the novel), but I love the Eight Cousins books and An Old-Fashioned Girl. I don't own them, but sometimes I read them on Project Gutenberg when I don't feel like checking them out of the library.

Jane Eyre is wonderful. I didn't read it until I was 22, and determined to catch up on some of the classics I'd never read (my plan was thwarted by Charles Dickens, who refuses to be readable). I love Jane, love that she's not beautiful but inspires such intense love in Rochester, love that she doesn't let her spirit be crippled or her heart denied. Love that she can just up and learn Hindustani when she thinks it necessary.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is one that I continue to read, over and over. It's got so much that I love: time travel and mystery novels and Jerome K. Jerome and historical romance. I keep trying to recommend it to my friends, but they tend to refuse scifi books categorically, even when they aren't very scifi-ish.
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