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Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There (Turtleback School & Library)
Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There (Turtleback School & Library) | Lewis Carroll
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The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. One of juvenile literature's great classics, with 50 original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.
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JessClark78
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🌼 Too many to list. I rewatch many favorite movies and film/TV series. Currently rewatching Cobra Kai, Mad Men, Roswell, and The Vampire Diaries. Most rewatched movie lately is probably The Crow.

🌺 Board game - Clue. Video game - The Legend of Zelda and Tetris.

🌹 The story is designed around a game of Chess.

#WondrousWednesday

Eggs Great responses - thanks for playing 5mo
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ImperfectCJ
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1) Catan! (Or Boggle, if that's considered a board game.)

2) Tagged. Kind of a stretch, but it's the one I thought of. Or The Queen's Gambit. There have to be characters who play something besides chess, don't there?

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! Happy Tuesday! 13mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#LookB4ULeap 👀🪞🤾🏻‍♀️ #IdiomInsight 🍁🍂

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Eggs Beautiful 😍 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 💙💛 1y
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Leftcoastzen
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Thrift store find ! Not perfect but worth having in my humble opinion! #Vintage Published by Random House a “ special edition “ from 1946.

psalva I remember having these editions in the house growing up, but I don‘t know what ended up happening with them. Great find! 2y
Brooke_H I have those editions too! They‘re so special. 2y
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BC_Dittemore
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Well, I don‘t have a super fancy edition like my 150th Anniversary Dali-illustrated Alice in Wonderland for Through the Looking-Glass. But I do have this beast that I got back in high school. I think my daughter will be more appreciative of the original artwork, though, than the surreal insanity of Dali. 🤣😅

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DPgirl
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😋 nearly mid-morning snack using my newest finds. Alice in Wonderland milk jug and one of my new side plates from Asda 🥰

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Last day of my long service leave calls for a spot of op shopping. All this for $14.50! The bib is new & for my new & probably last nephew Murphy. He is just over a week old ❤️. I love me some embroidered serviettes for dinner parties & at $2 if they get stained I can just throw them out. Not sure what I‘ll make out of the material on the bottom. I love magazines but usually only buy them from op shops or borrow from the library. Now for a wax!

Jeg Love seeing your op shop goodies. 3y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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My Aunt & Uncle gave me this book when I was 5 for Christmas 🎄🥰

#BeginsWith 🥳📚 #Glass 🪞

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awwww ❤️ 3y
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Eggs Perfection! 3y
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SolaRaynor
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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?“
-- Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass“

DaveGreen7777 Oooh, love this picture! 🤩 3y
SolaRaynor @DaveGreen7777 Thank you, it's the neighbor's plum tree :) 3y
kspenmoll Beautiful photo! 3y
SolaRaynor @kspenmoll Thank you, I love snow :) 3y
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wordslinger42
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Week one reading! Let the grad school adventures begin ⚔🐉

AmyG Good luck! 3y
hannah-leeloo Happy reading 📚 ❤📖 3y
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Bookgoil
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Thanks @sharread for this fun #merryunbirthdayswap I‘m going to have some tea this afternoon now that‘s it‘s cooling off here! ❤️ I already ate two of the lollis before I took this! 😂

@aperfectmjk

sharread You're welcome. Did the 2 bookmarks show up in there? 3y
aperfectmjk Love that tin that the tea comes in! 😍 3y
Bookgoil @sharread oh found them! They were in one of the books! So cute! 3y
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Pickpick

A nice sequel to Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland, with new curious and quirky characters. I really enjoyed the poetry bits, they‘re nonsensical but delightful, and Alice is such a charming character!
9/10

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effani
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This book has more of a cohesive story-line than the original Alice, and felt like it lacked some of the dreamlike spontaneity. I think I would have appreciated it more if I knew more about chess. But it does still have the whimsy and colorful characters everyone associates with these books.

At some point I want to get hold of the Annotated Alice and learn some of the things I've been missing (like the chess references).

effani This was my #BookSpin pick for this month. I was hoping that something light and easy to read would come up, and this certainly fit that bill. I also noticed at the end of January that despite the fact that I've been doing #BookSpin for a whole year, nothing off my physical TBR had been picked, and this broke that streak.

Thanks as always, @TheAromaofBooks!
4y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I read this one last month and rather enjoyed it. 4y
vlwelser I love this cover. 4y
effani @vlwelser I agree, the cover is great! I think one of the best things about the Alice books is how much cool art they've inspired. I got this copy many years ago as part of a boxed set of classics for kids. 4y
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JazzFeathers
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#FairytaleReadingChallenge

It's very strange. This book Is sovery similar, and yet definitely different, from Alice in Wonderland.
I loved that It Is more strongly dreamlike, in the semce that the events really nove like dreams do. It's disorienting, but l liked it.
I also liked the use of the chessboard.
On the other hand, it is kind of pointless even more than Wonderland is.
And yet, l love these stories... And l'm non even sure why.

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JazzFeathers
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While l read Alice in Wonderland several times as a kid, l only read Through the Looking Glass once, and l remember not liking it as much.
But now, l'm really enjoying It. In some day, It seems ti have a stronger stracture, even uf it is even weirder 😆

#FairytaleReadingChallenge

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freeatlast1137
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Pickpick

Alice goes on another adventure through the looking glass.

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Thanks @Powered_By_Plants for tagging me In this

1. I‘ve always wanted to travel to Japan, there are no plans but it‘s always been something I wanted to do.

2.This week I‘m grateful I saw my sisters, we don‘t see eachother much because of Covid-19

3. @ShyBookOwl @annahenke @mrmirm

Powered_By_Plants Would love to do Japan too! Mostly for the official Pokemon Center 😆 5y
bookish_words I didn‘t even know the official Pokémon center was a thing ? whenever I thought of going I just thought like tourism in general - like landmarks, food, culture, etc. 5y
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Mehso-so

It wasn't a bad book but I'm just such a huge fan of the first one and I find this it just doesn't do it justice. I'm also not a fan of tweedle Dee and tweedledum which doesn't help. 😅 Still brought back some memories from the movie which was nice 😊 I listened to the audio version narrated by Harlon Ellison

Bookwormjillk I love the cover though 5y
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caittfin
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‘Bewarew the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

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Have I mentioned how absolutely marvellous this edition is?🤩

Zelma Ooooh, 😍 5y
Aimeesue Ahhhhhhh! ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
LiteraryinPA Gorgeous! 5y
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ju.ca.no
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OMG look at this marvellous edition of Alice in Wonderland @maralinchen got me🥺😍😍😍🤩

Tanisha_A 😍 5y
Erofan Beautiful 😍 5y
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ephemeralwaltz Omg😍🔥 5y
Sarah83 So lovely 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 5y
rather_be_reading 😍😍 5y
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“The time has come,‘ the Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.‘”

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#QuotsyMar19 Day 15: #Beware the Bandersnatch and Jabberwocky indeed. Did not have a chance to complete all scenarios in the Netflix Bandersnatch as yet. Too bad.

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Curiouser and curiouser. Did anyone else have an issue accessing Litsy the last three days? I got a completely blank screen no matter how long I waited for it to load.

CouronneDhiver I didn‘t have that problem but a few others did. Delete the app and reload it... the tech team did a fix/update 6y
TheBogwitch @CouronneDhiver I was going to but it said it would delete all the info associated with the account. Thankfully, all is well now. 6y
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laur89
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Mehso-so

Fun dialogue, but not as entertaining as the first book. I enjoyed the characters more in Wonderland, as well as the plot. 3/5 ⭐️

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laur89
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Time for the next Alice book! Taking advantage of waiting for the BF to get his haircut done 💇🏻‍♂️

#SerialReader #AliceinWonderland #classics

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Shannon_McKinney
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Finished “Through the Looking Glass...” I did enjoy it however I didn‘t like it quite as much as the first installment. 4/5 🌟