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A review by isabellarobinson7
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: the Little Folks Edition by Lewis Carroll
Rating: ?? stars
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was probably my first DNF ever. (Well... there was maybe one before that, but we don’t talk about that book.) I first got it as an e-book on my shoddy e-reader called a "NextBook", a device I cannot even find a description of now online, because it was that bad and probably didn’t even go past its first run. I hadn’t even paid the subscription, so I was relying solely on free books to read. Regardless, I would take this e-reader to school and read during silent reading time, but this was a time when "silent" reading was anything but for me (let’s just say this was before something significant was discovered about my life). Silent reading was more about being distracted than the actual reading. So anyway, I had Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on this terrible e-reader during the silent meant-to-be-reading time and understandably I did not get very far. The problem was that when I got home (where I actually could read) I would just read my physical book, so I never got very far with Lewis Carroll's famous book.
Fast forward to November of 2022, where my mum bought me this tiny little bind-up of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as well as its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (the edition this review is listed under) called The Little Folks Edition (my brother thought this was just perfect as I am... let’s just say I'm under average height). This was the first time since that initial DNF back in school that I properly attempted Alice's Adventures in Wonderland again, be that as an abridged version, but I digress.
As for an actual review of this book... I don't know if I have one to give you. Keep in mind that I started this book exactly 100 days ago (I actually counted) so any "instant" or "raw" reactions I had to the story are long gone by now. Well, for one, reading the source material helped me keep the Red Queen and Queen of Hearts more or less separate in my mind (I frequently get them mixed up), so I guess that's something.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was probably my first DNF ever. (Well... there was maybe one before that, but we don’t talk about that book.) I first got it as an e-book on my shoddy e-reader called a "NextBook", a device I cannot even find a description of now online, because it was that bad and probably didn’t even go past its first run. I hadn’t even paid the subscription, so I was relying solely on free books to read. Regardless, I would take this e-reader to school and read during silent reading time, but this was a time when "silent" reading was anything but for me (let’s just say this was before something significant was discovered about my life). Silent reading was more about being distracted than the actual reading. So anyway, I had Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on this terrible e-reader during the silent meant-to-be-reading time and understandably I did not get very far. The problem was that when I got home (where I actually could read) I would just read my physical book, so I never got very far with Lewis Carroll's famous book.
Fast forward to November of 2022, where my mum bought me this tiny little bind-up of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as well as its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (the edition this review is listed under) called The Little Folks Edition (my brother thought this was just perfect as I am... let’s just say I'm under average height). This was the first time since that initial DNF back in school that I properly attempted Alice's Adventures in Wonderland again, be that as an abridged version, but I digress.
As for an actual review of this book... I don't know if I have one to give you. Keep in mind that I started this book exactly 100 days ago (I actually counted) so any "instant" or "raw" reactions I had to the story are long gone by now. Well, for one, reading the source material helped me keep the Red Queen and Queen of Hearts more or less separate in my mind (I frequently get them mixed up), so I guess that's something.