pickA low pick for me. The first in the looking glass wars series (#SeriesLove2025). It is a battle between white and black imaginations (Alyss vs Red). There was a lot of world building, and maybe it was because I listened to this, but I had a hard time imagining some of the world 😅. I will still continue the series, but may pick up the print next time.
so-soWhereas I loved the writing and found it to work so perfectly for an Alice in Wonderland continuation, I thought the story was lacking. It just didn‘t have enough to it that was really different and interesting. I agree with a lot of reviews that said that it needed more of Wonderland and less of the parallel story. I wanted more from this, but also a HUGE Alice fan, so I didn‘t hate it because it did have some cool elements.
“Let me put it more scientifically. If separate species develop skills that help them survive, and if those attributes are favored which best benefit the individual and its native population, to what possible end might we suppose has arisen, Mr. Winter, that particular capacity of the human being known as the imagination?”
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Happy Alice in Wonderland Day! 🐇♠️♥️♣️♦️🫖
Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world. If Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life.
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Scrolling through Facebook today and came across a post from my local library that they were having a sale today! Fill your own bag for $3 or one of theirs for $6.
8 books for $3, yes please!
#bookhaul
panThis was required reading for my son's English class, so I read it with him. I was disappointed it wasn't more to our liking. There were too many details that were supposed to be clever that had me rolling my eyes. The worst thing, for me, was the White Rabbit being reimagined as Bibwit Harte (which is a terrible and unnecessary anagram), who is a large-earred albino.
pickI have been slacking on my #aliceinwonderlandretelling challenge so I decided to double up this month. This one 1) has made it onto my keeper bookcase 2) was inhaled in less than a day and 3) will be in the top 20 of favorite books read this year. Yes, I know ita only May but still! Great twists on the original story and I loved all the characters. Book 1 in a series and yes I'll be reading the rest for sure!
