I think it's the sort of book where disagreeing at least occasionally is part of the fun, although perhaps not to the extent that I was disagreeing about the State of Girls' Books Today. But it feels like a dialogue if occasionally you're like "HDU, Winona Ryder was PERFECT as Jo March!" or whatever.

My understanding is that the barriers between books for adults and children, or books for men or women, or whatever, weren't as set in stone as they're often treated today. People might read Little Women and think "This will appeal especially to eleven-year-old girls!" but there was no accompanying "...and it is therefore off-limits to EVERYONE ELSE."