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This is an excellent collection of stories based on Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Highly recommend to fans of Alice in Wonderland.

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A book you‘d recommend whose title starts with the featured letter.

This was a wonderful collection of brilliantly written stories. And I have to say, I enjoyed all of them. Some were fun, some were amusing, some full of longing, a couple were creepy, and one got downright scary. A must read for anyone who loves Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

♐️ 1: A book published between Nov. 22nd and Dec. 21st. #ReadYourSign

- Seanan McGuire “Sentence Like A Saturday”

📷: My cat, Sparrow.

Love this.

Getting started on book one for #ReadYourSign.
A book that was published between November 22nd and December 21st. ♐️

Halfway through, fantastical wonderland stories 🐇

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Neither Merlin, nor me were much convinced about this book. It might be a typical „it‘s not you; it‘s me“ problem though- I had very high expectations and I thought the stories would be much more whimsical and magical in a weird, colourful and happy way- like the original Alice. most of the stories were much darker though, which was somewhat disappointing, simply because it wasn‘t what I wanted. There were some good stories so I give it 3/5⭐️

No better way to start the day💕

How great is this? I love it! This book will finally be my next read and I am very excited about it!

There was only one of these stories that I really didn't enjoy ("Eating the Alice Cake") which speaks to the quality of Ellen Datlow as an editor.

Several stories dealt with eating disorders (Eat me! Drink me!) and child abduction, but most dealt with the shifting identities of Alice in the text. Some really leaned into the nonsense which I loved.

Top 3: "My Own Invention", "Sentence Like a Saturday", and "The Flame After the Candle"

I need your guyses help please. One of my participants had to bow out of the swap for a very VERY good reason. I am allowing her to do so with no consequences because of the severity of the situation.
I do have a problem however. Her match needs a swap box. Her match is expecting a swap box with 1hat, 1 book & 1 tea bag. Can someone please help fulfill the swap? Please email me: TamaraTheReadingMermaid@yahoo.com

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Okay guys we should be getting ready to ship out packages soon.
Please let me know when you guys ship so I can Mark you off my list. 😃 Don't forget to tag me! ❤️

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Hey @MrBook to answer your question with visual evidence, I just got up and came back to this scene at my chair. 🙄 the third cat has decided he prefers the top of the cable box lately. 🤔

I was eagerly anticipating McGuire‘s contribution to this Wonderland-centric anthology and it did not disappoint!

Here we get the flip side of a portal fantasy when a Cheshire kitten tumbles up the rabbit hole and must grapple with our world of logic as opposed to Wonderland‘s nonsense.

And it could easily fit into the Wayward Children universe if you squint.

It‘s been an insane two weeks at work so I immediately plopped down in my reading chair with some cheez-its and Wonderland-themed short stories. I might warm up a little dinner but that is the extent of my efforts tonight. 😌

It‘s always fun to see an author you like show up by surprise in an anthology.

And that beginning...

The White Knight is my favorite character from the Alice books and “My Own Invention” by Delia Sherman is a sweet story about him and also about how gender is a social construct. It was absolutely wonderful.

“My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.”

Having finished my book of Oz-inspired short stories I‘m on to Wonderland! I‘ll be reading these stories between novels.

Tea time and short stories.

Just some books I would love to read in February! #readingresolutions @Jess7 #februaryTBR
The first one is for #LMPBC so that one is certain, but with my birthday coming up I might receive others I‘ll have to read first🙊 but I am VERY much looking foward to those books so hopefully I will have time for them😍

Trying something different. 😊

This year I am on a slight book buying ban. I am allowed one new book a month. This is my new book for January, it is short stories from the World of Alice in Wonderland, written by many great authors, among them Catherynne M. Valente. I‘m so excited about this 😍😍😍

Also many thanks to @erzascarletbookgasm for the beautiful postcard for #litsypostcardexchange 😘😊

Just a girl, her books, and her dog. #madhattersandmarchhares #aliceinwonderland #brindle

I have been waiting for this! I can always trust an Ellen Datlow edited anthology to be awesome in theme and in the quality of the contributors - this time is no exception! Seanan Maguire, Catherynne Valente, Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Angela Slatter, and more tackle the weird world of Alice‘s Wonderland. Wheeee! 🍄🐇🎩💕

Super excited about this #bookmail I always love a good remix of a classic story and this collection of Alice-themed works just came out this week!

Especially stoked that Stephen Graham Jones and Catherynne M. Valente have stories in here. Plus who doesn‘t love a Dave McKean cover?