Welcome to Litsy!

I went to The Chaumont Garden Festival on Sunday & had a fantastic time walking through all the gardens inspired by works of fiction (and all the others too!) This is the Alice in Wonderland one: not the greatest photo, unfortunately...
https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/international-garden-festival

#ThriftHaul
Picked up a few books at the thrift store yesterday. I love how I picked three very different books ❤️📖

1. Apples, watermelon, and pineapple. If berries were included, my answer would be different. 😁
2. Alice in Wonderland
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

#CoverLove #Dots

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Have to share this puzzle my wife and I just finished…

🫣🫣🫣

remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
#AlicesAdventuresInWonderland #LewisCarroll #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #bookclub #bookclubs #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsfilm #bookvsmovie #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogs #Fantasy #Fiction #Adventures #Childrens #Classics #Audiobook #MiddleGrade #YoungAdult #Literature 💝

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple joys,

Loved the throwback to when I was a child. I have to say I do prefer “wonderland” to “through the looking glass” but both are such beautiful dreamy fantasies!

To start when I finish the great Gatsby. There has been so little reading time this week. Or journalling time. Or craft time!

A couple of Alice versions with an #InsectCover. #NewYearNewBooks @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#OnThisDay #Nov26

🎧 currently listening 🎧

“Curiouser and curiouser!“ - Lewis Carroll

I have the book in a pop up version from my childhood and it is my favorite! I read it all the time and it helped build my creativity.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland“ is a fun way to encourage kids to think outside the box. It's full of strange characters and places that encourages creativity. In the classroom, it's great for discussions about imagination and unique perspectives, and I will definitely use it!

You never know what you're going to find in Provincetown.

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Movie:Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Snippets from the movie here:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct5PNs0AyvM/?igshid=YzcxN2Q2NzY0OA==

#MayMontage
Day 18. Queen
#Queen
For this prompt I leaned more character than title. The Queen of Hearts makes an appearance in Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland.

Last read it about 10 years ago. Difficult to read without visualising the Disney version to myself.

I have this quote hanging up in front of my treadmill but besides making me chuckle when I attempt to exercise I think it perfectly sums up my everyday anxiety and stress. #aliceinwonderland #redqueen

That's the Staatstheater Stuttgart Theatre House during the era of the directorship of Hasko Weber (2005 - 2013).
I worked there for 13 years - glorious times... 😊
Still longing to get back to theatre - but under the current directorship it's not possible in Stuttgart where I'm homebased...

Also checking in from last weekend's #20in4 *drumroll*
I managed a bit more than 16 hours! 🥳 Wtf?!? For me that's Woohooo!!!
...

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wunderland got her own tree too!

#oxford #sightseeing #cslewis #cheshirecat

The Quick and Pithy of MY READING MIND
This is a fast little story, and more like a game of 52-pickup. It‘s no wonder people in the 1960s liked to read this story while high. Actually, perhaps this is the only way an adult can live-ily see the sense of this beautiful dream (kids get it instinctively; their sense of wonder hasn‘t yet been weighed down by society).

-- Mark Beyer
author of “Max, the blind guy” and three other novels

#specialedition #marchmagic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

It‘s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Just got back from a vacation to Disney World with extended family and thinking about finally reading this children‘s classic. Inspired by the mug I bought at Epcot!

Happy #ChineseNewYear to any Littens celebrating today! And welcome to the Year of the Rabbit! #JanuaryJazz @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Reading material for my trip to Disneyland Paris!
Interesting to see how surrounding myself with the language helps and makes my trip even more fun!
I'm so excited.
I want to get a picture with Alice reading it
(Going June 2023)

A friend gifted me this cool cut out version of Alice in Wonderland 😍🥰

I would give the Mad Hatter a collection of Surrealist art. I think it'd have an interesting effect. 🤔🤣
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

Fantasy

This book won the Kate Greenaway Award. This is about Alice who follows a rabbit into the woods. The rabbit goes down into a hole and Alice follows. She soon finds out that she is in a complete different universe than what she is use to. She then has many experiences and meets many new things and creature along the way.

This was a favorite book and a favorite Disney movie when I was a child.

#WinterReadathon
#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge

Spectacle of Light [3/3]

"We're all mad here.."

Spectacle of Light [2/3]

Mum & Dad & moi 🥰

Spectacle of Light @ Rufford [1/3]

This year was Alice in Wonderland themed ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?'
#AlicesAdventuresInWonderland #LewisCarroll #firstline #openingline #book #books #Classics #Fantasy #Fiction #Childrens #Audiobook #Adventure 🤍🤍🤍🤍

#OminousOctober Day 25: A #trick from Alice used in Taylor Swift‘s “AntiHero.” What happens when mother and youngling are both Swifties. Twenty year old in Seattle and Mother in Abu Dhabi watching Taylor Swift videos in real time. 💕💕💕

Detail of my latest finished quilt. When I saw this fabric collection based on Alice, just had to get it and make something out of it! “Happy unhalloween “!

Still reading, just not posting as much on all forms of social media even though Litsy is still my favorite💖 📚

I somehow managed to go my whole life not having read this book (I do remember trying to read it as a kid and I maybe read a Disneyfied version). But my friends and I did CluedUpp's Alice in Wonderland themed scavenger hunt this past weekend, and I thought I should read the book... which I did not enjoy despite the dulcet tones of narrator Scarlet Johannsen. #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon @Clwojick

Under other circumstances, I‘d probably choose another book setting, but if it‘s my birthday I couldn‘t pass up a chance to join Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, and the Cheshire cat. They seem to know how to throw a crazy party!
#SundayFunday

My last book of September for my virtual foodie book club. I couldn‘t tell you how many decades it has been since I read this book. It was fun to revisit & a quick read. I decided to go with a (Very Mock Turtle) Creamy Wild Rice Soup with Green Olives (the olives 🫒are halved & I am using them to symbolize turtle shells floating in the bowl.🤷🏻‍♀️ It was very tasting with the briny olives & juice brightening up the rich creamy soup. Recipe link⬇️

#readingretreat

@squirrelbrain @trishb @RaeLovesToRead @jenniferw88 @CGainor3 @scripturient @julesG @Mitch @Susanita @rockpools @Leniverse