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What are you reading this week of January 3, 2016? [View all]
Happy New Year, my fellow readers. Hope it's a good one for us all.
I practiced some Outlander interruptus to enjoy Gregory Maguire's latest, After Alice. I'm a big Maguire fan; Wicked is one of my all time favorite reads. The reviews say this is a story about Ada, who follows Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, but it's about many other things, as well. Not all readers are happy about that, but oh well. Maguire did his usual great job of evoking Carroll's time and place. I found it quite amusing and with wonderful bits of wisdom, like:
Our private lives are like a colony of worlds expanding, contracting, breathing universal air into separate knowledges. Or like several packs of cards shuffled together by an expert anonymous hand, and dealt out in a random, amused or even hostile way.
How's your 2016 reading starting out?
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