Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
I’ve recently learned that some claim that this book is a nightmare, compared to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland being a dream. I find that I disagree. When reading this book I found the land that Alice found herself in more pleasant than Wonderland in the first book. I can’t put my finger on why though.Read More »
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This and the sequel, Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass are on my list of 1001 books to read, and as luck may have it, I am taking a class on Lewis Carroll this semester, so have just finished the first book. I expected it to be completely different from the Disney movie, because it’s more of an episodic tale than one with much of a continuous plot, or so I’d heard. To me, it seemed as if there was a very continuous plot. Read More »
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
I started this book well over a month ago and can only mostly blame a busy end of the semester for not finishing it sooner. It’s 639 pages of what seems to be action, but once you really get into the middle and end of the book, it’s a lot of just a retelling of some action that happened over the past year condensed into a few pages. It got kind of boring. Also, there was this chapter roughly 100 pages from the end that basically described what it meant to be living in England at the time. Definitely could have done without that.Read More »
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I snagged this book for two dollars at a used book store near campus and couldn’t believe my luck. Several weeks before, I had ordered the Lord of the Rings series on a great deal off of Thriftbooks. Then my sister ordered the series plus The Hobbitoff of Amazon, and I realized that it would be a good idea to read The Hobbit first.Read More »
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