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#aside from the laurie thing and the general family atmosphere and the moralizing mother figure there's quite a lot different
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The Heir of Redclyffe is teaching me that what Little Women really needed was for the March sisters to have a clever, witty, sharp-tongued, disabled brother who was BFFs with Laurie.
#charles edmonstone my beloved
#he's so much fun
#and his friendship with guy is one of the best parts of the book
#i'm shocked to see a victorian book where the disabled person is neither a monster nor a saint
#the disability affects his life and the household but it's far from the only thing about him
#he's a great character in his own right
#he even has a plot-relevant illness
#but the plot relevance isn't 'oh no he's near death let's have drama'
#but 'he's having a flareup and can't write letters so someone loses a vital correspondant at an unfortunate moment'
#(charles does later lampshade the lost opportunity for a dramatic deathbed reconciliation scene)
#but anyway despite my continued comparisons of this book and little women
#they are different books
#aside from the laurie thing and the general family atmosphere and the moralizing mother figure there's quite a lot different
#for one thing the male characters are much more interesting than most of the female ones
#the girls are fine but certainly not the main draw of the story
#i do like the religious aspect of this one more though
#at first it was giving me anxiety cuz they agonize over teeny little sins
#but once we moved from childish concerns to more adult ones the faith aspect became much deeper
#still clunky and eye-rolling at times but also surprisingly natural in some places
#and i'm still holding my breath for whatever made jo cry over this book
#66% through the book; it's gotta be coming relatively soon
#books
#the heir of redclyffe
#little women
#charlotte mary yonge
#louisa may alcott
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