PDCC97, CFC18 - Black & White and read all over

This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge was a toughie -

CFC18:  Create a Clean And Simple project inspired by a book, and use the colors black, white and red.

Have you guessed which book inspired this card?  Little Women.  I read that book so many times when I was young - in fact one of the best gifts I ever received was a set of five Louisa May Alcott books from my grandmother.  While most people are familiar with Little Women did you know that there were two other books that went with it?  Little Men and Jo's Boys.  LOVED all of them!  Anyhoo, the March girls (Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy) spent a lot of time on their correspondence as was common then.  They were also very clever girls - writing their own newspaper and building sets for the plays they would put on in their home.  Seems quite likely that they would also fashion pretty cards to send to their friends.  

I used the retired Art Nouveau Backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms to stamp the background then cut a square from the front with a Nestabilities die.  Martha Stewart Clear alphabet and Maraschino twine from The Twinery add the requisite splash of red for the Play Date Cafe Challenge.

Read any good books lately?  Yesterday, I finished Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill about slavery during the time of the Revolutionary War.  Really good book.  Another favorite in the past few months was These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona Territories : a novel  - I particularly enjoy historic fiction - what books do you recommend?