Hello Reading and Eating Ladies!
First, thank you to Sara for hosting our lovely group last night! Teeny tiny Daniella was our guest of honor... thank you Tina for bringing her!
Our next meet up will be Wednesday, March 9th (write that down) at Casa de Medina. We also have a few "extracurriculars" coming up, so please look for those postings (as well as others that were promised last night). :)
Okay, so what are we reading? Drum roll..... .... .... ... .. .
Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?
Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.” Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year–the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories.That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice–he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice’s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war.
For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey.A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. (from http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780385344135.html)
This is the picture of the "real Alice" that the author saw, which inspired her to write the book.
Alice Liddell Hargreaves later in life
Also for next time... we noticed last night that we usually tend to suggest books that we have already read (or started reading). For next book club, we are going to do a "book swap." So you will bring a copy of a book you *really* enjoyed and trade with someone at the meeting (and if you want your book back, make sure to put your name inside). The book swap won't replace us choosing a book (or it could), it's more for fun since we get so many great suggestions.
See you soon!
Karina
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