The narration is good overall, although the youngest children’s voices seemed too babyish. Essentially, Jo turned into her sister Meg, and I wasn’t very happy about that. Mostly, though, I found it disappointing that the rowdy tomboy, the adventuresome Jo whom I liked so much in "Little Women" would grow up to be as she is depicted in "Little Men," having sublimated her own ambitions and become so completely domesticated. I had never read it before, and I'm glad I listened to it. It’s quaint, and the stories are very nice, if a little twee. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy "Little Men." I really did. The book reprises characters from her 186869 two-volume novel Little Women, and acts as a sequel, or as the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilogy. "Little Women" didn’t have much of a plot, but it certainly had more than this sequel. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (18321888), which was first published in 1871 by Roberts Brothers. "Little Men" is hardly a novel – it’s really just a series of vignettes from the lives of Jo, the professor, and the boys (and a couple of girls) at Plumfield, their school it really has no plot to speak of. It’s not really fair to compare "Little Men" unfavorably to "Little Women," just because they're both by the same author, but I can’t help it. It's not "Little Women," but it's still a classic
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