Life, what is it but a dream? I had guessed that this story would also take place in dream. And surprisingly I was right..yay! Just like Alice In The Wonderland, I couldn't connect with this book also. Writing was dull. Just like the last book. But this book did make an improvement in adventures. Those were faaar better than Alice in the Wonderland. I liked the concept of Chess game. I liked the World of Looking-Glass. But I think Wonderland was little better. This was also great. Don't kn

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There = Alice through the Looking-Glass = Through the Looking-Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #2), Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Peter Glassman (Afterword)Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll, and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There

*Reread July 2017*Reread for booktube-a-thon 2017! Do I really have to tell you I loved it? I think you should know that by now!

A group read with my buddies."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."The second adventure of Alice might be slightly less known than the first one, but this fact does not make it any less fun than the first one. And the poems are great, all of them with no exception. So Alice went through a looking-glass in her room to find an almost identical mirror-ima...

Alice at the ripe old age of seven and a half is still bored , as she plays with her adorable black and white kittens, yet she needs something better, again ignored by her older sister...wants more stimulation, excitement, yes adventures, so decides to go through a looking -glass and escape the tedium of everyday life of Victorian England...She will not be disappointed, in reality probably much too much for Alice's childish taste . The girl sees a magnificent garden and a twisting road leading t...

A charming book, full of surprising insights into the true meaning and historical background of various seemingly straightforward passages in the Alice books. So much so, that one wishes that there were more of these annotations.That I had missed while growing up. It has lots of lessons that are currently applicable to people in their everyday life. For instance, the Cheshire Cat when Alice asked him where she should go. So many people in life don't know where they're going and so they just sett...

"But are you really pro-life?" asked Alice. "Because you know, I've heard pro-life people talk before, and they sound quite different." "When I use a word," Trumpty Drumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.""The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things.""The question is," said Trumpty Drumpty, "which is to be master — that's all."Alice was too puzzled to reply to this, so she thought she ha...

Goodreads having eaten my first review of this book, I need to hastily rewrite another. Basically Alice in Wonderland is the superior book, but not by much. Book 2 is proof that Lewis Carroll can make lightning strike twice.In book 2, Alice finds herself through her mirror, and interacts with the kingly chess pieces. She goes out into the garden, not easily due to navigational problems. No wonder everything she achieves in that place is seen as a victory.The characters in book 2 are not as memor...

If you love children's stories, you will love Through the Looking Glass.If you love magic, you will love Through the Looking Glass.If you love words, you will love Through the Looking Glass.I love Through the Looking Glass.

6.8/10Alice once again finds herself in a place where nothing is ordinary.Not as great as the first book but still Carroll's pen does the trick and provides an entertaining read.

It’s not fair that I have to review this book.I mean, no one is making me. Technically speaking, I am in no way obligated to review this. But also, in a much more real important way, because I am the one saying it: I absolutely must.Because I love this book so goddamn much.BUT HOW AM I POSSIBLY EXPECTED TO PUT THAT LOVE INTO WORDS.There’s only one way to do it.By cheating.Read my review of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland so you understand the immensity of my love for these books (which I kind o...

I think that the failure not only of Children's Literature as a whole, but of our very concept of children and the child's mind is that we think it a crime to challenge and confront that mind. Children are first protected from their culture--kept remote and safe--and then they are thrust incongruously into a world that they have been told is unsafe and unsavory; and we expected them not to blanch.It has been my policy that the best literature for children is not a trifling thing, not a simplific...

I love Through the Looking-Glass probably even more than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Like the first book, events in Through the Looking-Glass just happen and they don't owe you any explanation, logic, or sense; and it's simply brilliant. It contains some of my favorite quotes, poems, puns and dialogues and I don't think I'll ever tire of it. I will re-read it many times myself, and if I ever have to read books to children this will definitely be on top of the list. This is the sort of chil...

I had the strangest dream.I dreamed I found myself in Wonderland, went there trough the looking glass, but while I was there, I couldn't remember what Wonderland looked like.After I woke up, I decided it was the best time for me to finally read this book and find my answers.When I was growing up, I liked watching Trough the Looking Glass animated movie better then Alice in Wonderland, even if it wasn't Disney's.Now when I was reading it, some pictures from that movie came to my mind, I was remin...

Alice in Wonderland was almost an institution at our house - but nobody knew about this book. I was tantalised for years by references to it in various other books, and finally succeeded in locating it in a local bookstore.The looking-glass world is, IMO, weirder than the one underground and decidedly creepier (the Jabberwock and those two blackguards, the Walrus and the Carpenter). Also, it contains two of my favourite poems. In fact, Jabberwocky might be the finest nonsense poem ever written i...

Finished Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and plunged Through the Looking Glass. At first, while it was enjoyable, not much seemed new about Alice’s continued adventures. However, Carroll’s inventive, evocative and fun use of language takes over and turns this into a different kind of adventure. Even if you haven’t read this one before (I count myself in this number), you should find that you’re familiar with the basic elements of the story (Alice’s adventures through a landscape drawn up as

“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!” Through the Looking-Glass is the 1871 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and where Alice ventures into a fantasy world by going through a mirror. I remember seeing the 2016 film of this book, Alice Through the Looking-Glass starring Johnny Depp and not liking it much. This surprised me since I loved the 2010 film adaption of Alice in Wonderland also starring J...

“In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by” Six Impossible Things:1. I finish college this year2. I find a guy who is both strong and loyal as Dimitri (VA) and handsome as Reyes (Charley Davidson), delicious as Barrons (Fever) and swoon worthy as Jamie (Outlander)3. I eat all the ice cream I want and it all goes to my boobs4. I read for a living.5. I go to the gym6. I don't fall sleep in the most unusual places (e.g. waiting in the line for the bathroom)

Playing Chess4 June 2013 Hot on the tails of the rabid success of Alice in Wonderland comes the similar, but somewhat different, sequel. The absurdity of this volume is of the same scope as the original, but in many cases, being a sequel, it seems to lack some of the uniqueness of the original. One thing I noticed with regards to the original is that there simply did not seem to be any plot. Thus, the absurdity of the entire volume was complete. There was no reason for Alice to be there, and no