Journal Entry 1 by bookseekerAT from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

"March is Geraldine Brooks' imagining of the life of John March, the absent father of the March girls from Little Women. Since most of the characters in Little Women were based on Louisa May Alcott's family, Geraldine Brooks bases John March on her father, Bronson Alcott. In March, John March is an anti-slavery idealist and contemporary of Emerson and Thoreau. Although, he's opposed to war, he enlists as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War, but he finds the common soldier lacks his abolitionist fervor. His pontification make the soldiers uncomfortable. The realities of war and human weaknesses collide with his idealistic principles, rendering a good man ineffective when he's most needed. His letters home tax his wife, Marmee, and she struggles with her own inner weaknesses." 

Journal Entry 2 by bookseekerAT at Stanmore, New South Wales Australia on Friday, December 19, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (12/18/2008 UTC) at Stanmore, New South Wales Australia

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Sent by post to livrecache - for OzVBB.
Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 3 by livrecache from Hobart, Tasmania Australia on Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Thanks so much, bookseekerAT.

Just in time for holiday reading! Twelve days off! It seems forever since I had a break as long at that. Sad, isn't it?

Season's greetings to you and yours. 

Journal Entry 4 by AnonymousFinder on Saturday, December 26, 2009

I enjoyed the book, after a slow start. I will pass it onto a friend locally in Hobart, Tasmania.

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