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QUEER ANNE 🙌😍🥰

Ava wrote: "QUEER ANNE 🙌😍🥰"

Finally! It’s really cute.

Why haven’t I heard of this!! I love all things Anne of Green Gables and this sounds cute and fun. Will definitely look for a copy at the library!

Xueting wrote: "Why haven’t I heard of this!! I love all things Anne of Green Gables and this sounds cute and fun. Will definitely look for a copy at the library!"

I think it just came out in print last week and I pounced on our bookstore copy because I am also currently in a Anne of Green Gables phase haha (just finished the Netflix series a few weeks ago). I hope you enjoy! It’s really cute.

The moment I saw the title, I thought of myself "How cool with a queer retelling of Little Women be!".

Nocturnalux wrote: "The moment I saw the title, I thought of myself "How cool with a queer retelling of Little Women be!"."

It’s really cute too! And makes the aunt more awesome. It just makes sense though, like yea we deserve queer Jo haha I thought that recent film was going to but alas

s.penkevich wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "The moment I saw the title, I thought of myself "How cool with a queer retelling of Little Women be!"."

It’s really cute too! And makes the aunt more awesome. It just makes sen..."

I'm reading the book now and already I can tell that I will not like how it ends.

It's interesting how many female authors from the 19th century (and dare I say this extends to the 20th century as well) whose women characters never lived the exciting and amazing life that they themselves did. George Eliot is a prime example, someone who bucked convention and lived as few women at the time dared- or possibly could- ever live yet her female characters, while often very interesting, never match their author in that respect.
Alcott also seems to fall under this category, Jo is an amazing character and Alcott herself claimed she was identified with her, yet I don't think she was quite as radical as Alcott was.

Come to think of it, Jane Austen is another example. A woman who remained unmarried all her life and dedicated her life to writing yet her female characters, even the feisty ones, end up very conventionally married at the end.

There were surely restraints on what these authors could present to their public (I think Eliot's reasons were more complex, though; it is very interesting that when she does draw from her life it is more her early life, like in Mill) and in particular Alcott, who was writing for a younger audience, but it is an interesting dichotomy.

Nocturnalux wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "The moment I saw the title, I thought of myself "How cool with a queer retelling of Little Women be!"."

It’s really cute too! And makes the aunt more awesom..."

That is a really good point, especially like, yea, Alcott is really interesting on her own and her family was definitely pretty radical. the recent film version did something fairly interesting with the end, which I won’t spoil but it gets pretty metafictional and kind of addresses that sort of disappointment as well as publishing demanda/restraints. So I think If anything you will appreciate that aspect.

I was going to say the red-haired girl reminded me of Anne from (Anne from Green Gables),

so I saw the name of the book: 🤡🤡🤡 this design reminds me of Clarence from Cartoon Network ( rip )

should I read this book? yes or for sure?

why do you have a great literary taste??

Ewerton wrote: "I was going to say the red-haired girl reminded me of Anne from (Anne from Green Gables),

so I saw the name of the book: 🤡🤡🤡 this design reminds me of Clarence from Cartoon Network ( rip )

shoul..."

Haha I just looked up Clarence and it totally does! I would say yes definitely, though it is a really quick read so also maybe more of a borrow than a buy? But definitely really cute, I hope you enjoy!

And thank you so much, that makes my night :)

s.penkevich wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "s.penkevich wrote: "Nocturnalux wrote: "The moment I saw the title, I thought of myself "How cool with a queer retelling of Little Women be!"."

It’s really cute too! And makes ..."

You know, I wonder if even back then people had fun coming up wit their own canon ideas in a kind of of "proto-fanfiction", if you will. If so, maybe this is present in letters? As publishing it could land the author is hot water because of copyright issues.

I just can't believe that fans of, say, Marianne's spirited ways would be fully satisfied with her marrying a boring dude who is twice her age and that in at least one movie adaptation is even older. Maybe older readers were fine and even appreciated this as "growing up" but younger readers? The kind who enjoyed the book precisely because of Marianne?

And we have some inkling that this was indeed the case: I do not know about Austen but George Eliot got a lot of angry mail as fans found Myra from Daniel Deronda to be way too vanilla and plain boring as opposed to the dashing Gwendolen who very obviously steals the entire book.

There's an anime adaptation of Little Women and I'm thinking of checking it out. It is rather old and I'm sure it did not change the actual ending, I'm curious about how it portrayed the girls' father- anime often confuses Catholics and Protestants, I want to know how it handled his being a reverent- and how Jo was handled. The medium allows for a lot of gender fluidity and presentation.

It's a shame the anime is so old, though, it'd so interesting to see what a modern adaptation would do with it.

EDIT: I looked into the anime and it changes a lot of things and it sounds absolutely amazing. The family helps an escaped slave from being forcibly recruited into the Confederate army.

I don't have a strong feeling about these adaptations one way or another, but I do wonder how L.M. Montgomery or Louisa May Alcott would feel about them.

Kenny wrote: "I don't have a strong feeling about these adaptations one way or another, but I do wonder how L.M. Montgomery or Louisa May Alcott would feel about them."

Yea true, I often wonder about that when something enters public domain and how much control estates are able to maintain about anything like that. Seeing as back then nobody was even really predicting it, like A.A. Milne probably never once thought “huh, what if one day Winnie the Pooh becomes free reign IP and someone makes a horror film” haha. I think it works differently in the music industry too, I know like Dylan will randomly release a 5-10print run of cheaply put out live cuts just so he can retain the rights over the recording before the stature of limitations(? Or whatever the legal term is) expire.

this book is just gross