April 11, 2016

Disjointed Bookclub: Little Women / AKA I was named after a dog.



This past week I finished reading Little Women for the first time. I feel like it's something I should have done a long time ago, but as a late-bloomer-Little-Women-reader I'm glad I finally did. It's a big accomplishment because I think it may be the first book I finished since Hazel was born... (I take that back. Actually, I also read Fat Girl Walking. And Dad is Fat. But still not a lot of reading has taken place....)

As an avid Jane Austen fan, I've been trying to read Mansfield Park, but haven't been able to get into it. I was worried that my mom brain may have changed taste and can't stay interested unless childbirth and babies are involved. However, we went to visit an adorable used book shop in our town and I picked up Little Women, and sure enough I fell in love like millions before me.

Since I do not have a bookclub that I'm in, nor would I complete the reading in the proper time span if I did. I wanted to have a little chat with you, the people of the interwebs, because I'm sure many of you have read this one.

This is a great coming of age book for women, and I wish I had read it when I was junior high/high school instead.

I, of course, tried to choose which character I was most like, but I can't decide. A little of all of them. Is that the point? Who are you most like?

Who's your favorite?! I think Jo is mine, but she also seemed to be the focus character. Is she everyone's favorite? I guess not, because - fun fact! - in a round about way I was named after Amy...

You see, my mom came to the realization that I might have been named after my childhood neighbors' dog. We had two sisters who lived across the street from us, and they were very sweet, but also the epitome of cat ladies (the dog was before any of my memories) as they had at least 23 cats at one point.

My mom says that Amy was their favorite character of Little Women, so they named their dog after her. I guess Amy (the dog) got out a lot and they could be heard calling for her frequently. Well, after hearing it a lot, I guess it came to my mom pretty naturally when she was choosing my name, and my parents subconsciously named me after a dog!

Hi, my name is Amy, named after Amy the dog, named after Amy March of Little women.

I like dogs, and now I know I like Little Women, so it could be worse. :)



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2 comments:

  1. clearly not my recollection...but then I'm old and don't really remember all that well. Still, Amy resonated and became your name....and since you remember it dog-like and book-like I'm not offended....since you only attribute it all to your mother anyway... ;)

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  2. clearly not my recollection...but then I'm old and don't really remember all that well. Still, Amy resonated and became your name....and since you remember it dog-like and book-like I'm not offended....since you only attribute it all to your mother anyway... ;)

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