Through the Looking-glass

5th Feb 2021

Started this book today and nearly halfway through it. Well, I must say that I enjoyed the first part better than the sequel. Alice is certainly not back in Wonderland. She seems to be in another world and she is puzzled. I feel you Alice, surely things will become clearer by the end of the book. Umm..so I was veeery sleepy when I read the book for the first time and maybe that's why things weren't clearer..so I read it again. As a child I have always wondered if there is a world inside a particular stuff and Alice finds another world through a mirror and guess what? Everything is opposite of the 'real' world, even logic.

 I usually say that there is no mutual understanding between me and poems but the poem at the very beginning was lovely, gave me Wordsworth vibes. There were two chapters that were amusing to me, the talking flowers and the looking-glass insects. As an adult, these things like flowers that could talk and butter-fly (literally a fly with butter smeared on it) seems so childish but I can imagine my younger self being very happy about it, so that thought makes me be younger and that's good actually, after all those of us who read novels get to escape realities.

Now, I am at this chapter where Humpty Dumpty is introduced. I never knew Humpty Dumpty was a character made by Carroll.

So sleepy 💤...it's nearly 11pm here..will continue reading tomorrow.

6th Feb 2021

Nothing in particular stood out to me today..the story was okay-ish, (but then Alice's stories are not known for the storyline but the kind of imageries it imprints to the mind. Certainly a great read for children...) loved Carroll's imagination but I'm not picking this book or it's sequel to read anytime soon. I loved Alice's character development, in the first part she was quick to refute anybody and would easily get offended, but in this book rather then getting offended she changes the subject and be her jolly self.

Oh,  I also liked these lines from the ending poem-

Children yet, the tale to hear,

Eager eye and willing ear, 

Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie, 

Dreaming as the day goes by, 

Dreaming as the summer die; 

:-)