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Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
December 6th Book Soup's Paige Garver will be leading a discussion of Carlo Collodi's 1883 classic Pinocchio . Collodi's Pinocchio is not your Uncle Walt's tale of a cute puppet setting out on an adventure to become a 'real' boy. No. This tale is full of anarchy, dark Gilliam-esque strangeness, sadistic violence (a hanging, for instance), a ghostly cricket who delights in taunting his murderer, a...
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io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
With some shows off for the holidays already, this week's televisual focus falls to two lost girls: Syfy's reimagination of Lewis Carroll's Alice, and the two-hour return of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Alice in Wonderland," a dark, deep and whimsical reimagining of Lewis Carroll's famous tale, airs Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, at 9 p.m. E.T. Here, director/writer Nick Willing and actress Caterina Scorsone discuss the themes of the new miniseries.
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Heresy Corner (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Gary McKinnon the autistic-spectrum computer hacker now looks set to be handed over to a vengeful US justice system. The increasingly disappointing home secretary Alan Johnson has concluded, he wrote to Janis Sharp, McKinnon's tirelessly campaigning mother, that McKinnon's human rights would not be violated by extradition. So that - barring an unlikely intervention from the courts - is that. Of course,...
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Brian Palmu (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
I was rather naive on the meaning of the word "snark". I'd thought it was a short, dismissive review or comment, extremely negative in tone. In other words, an honest, damning comment on what one has engaged with. But I haven't given myself enough credit. Since my several dictionaries, including the on-line versions, either have no entries, or the lone meaning is pertaining to Lewis Carroll's...
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Writing and Ruminating (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
For today's Poetry Friday post, here is a post about a pair of epicureans, which seemed fitting to me for the day after Thanksgiving with so many people feasting (and, perhaps, overeating; also, it's possible that some of you had oysters in your stuffing). Today's pick is The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There , which I have posted once...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Roland Dodds was born in Brawley, California. He is currently a graduate student focusing on international politics at the University of Edinburgh, but was previously a teacher in California and Korea. He once fancied himself a musician and toured around...
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
echt (ekht) adjective Authentic; typical. EtymologyFrom German echt (genuine, typical) Trivia What bird was pictured in Plate No. 1 in John James Audubon’s book The Birds of America? The wild turkey. Today in History Kappa Alpha Society : Union College student society became the first college fraternity in the US (1825) Alice in Wonderland : pseudonymous author Lewis Carroll gave an illustrated...
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Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
*Nov 26 1865 Lewis Carroll sends the manuscript for the psychedelic novel "Alice in Wonderland" to his 12 year old special friend Alice Liddell....
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(Roughly) Daily (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On this Day of Thanks (here in the U.S. in any case), it behooves one to call out– indeed, to celebrate– those things that bring warm happiness, that nourish the soul. Your correspondent humbly nominates “The Book of the Month,” a service of the Special Collections Department of the Library of the University of Glasgow. There’s [...]
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Since I last wrote Irsquove been traveling every weekend and workingbusy nonstop through the weeks. Thankfully wersquove finally been paid so therersquos no money stress anymore and I can finally afford to get a gym membership and a haircut So thatrsquos the main happy development that makes all the others possible. Other than that the highlights are Prague fake Thanksgiving a
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Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
We're slowly climbing up the chart and today we creep into the Top 40. So without further ado here are the next ten most popular books as voted for by you 40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 39. The Bone People by Keri Hulme Not many people know of this book and the few i do know, haven't really enjoyed it, but for some reason, i loved it. It just spoke to me. I wish...
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The Shifted Librarian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Posted cshlib: RT @One_L: If Lewis Carroll had written Twilight: http://trunc.it/3kjk9. @HP_Listens pls consider this a request for an "other" category so I can email HP my ?. it doesn’t need a phone call. thanks for responding. [shifted] wow [...]
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AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
While we’re waiting to see what Tim Burton will do with Alice in Wonderland next spring, another Alice will give us a modern take on the adventure. Alice , a two-part miniseries set 150 years after the original trip to Wonderland, will premier Dec. 6 on Syfy — and it looks like a win. Let’s start with the promotional trailer. Alice Hamilton, played by Caterina Scorsone , is far from...
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Lower Earley Book Group (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Apologies for the lateness of this update, life seems to have got very hectic recently. We met (ages ago) to discuss 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll . To be honest there wasn't much to discuss! I think we were thinking that there might be some adult themes and hidden messages but it was exactly the same story I remember from childhood. I forgot to take a vote, but no one particularly hated it....
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