Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

What a wonderful bedtime story.

It has to have been at least 13 years since I’d read this last. And even though I was obsessed with the TV version (Irwin Allen’s 1985 gem), I found I’d forgotten a lot of it. For example, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum don’t appear until Through the Looking Glass, which is another post entirely.

I think everyone should read this again as an adult. It’s still as wonderfully funny and whimsical as you remember and even better now that you know why the Mad Hatter is mad.

You know, I was about to write a beautiful, eloquent blog about this novel, but my family is discussing the intricacies of removal of varicose veins (slice above, slice below, fish out offending vein) and I’m quickly becoming sick. So I’m going to have to leave it at that.

4.5 hair ribbons out of 5. It would have been 5 of 5 had I been born at a time when the rhymes in the book were still being taught and I understood more of it. Though of course that's my fault, not Carroll's.

Steph