Erin the Avid Reader ⚜BFF's with the Cheshire Cat⚜’s Comments (group member since Nov 05, 2016)

Erin the Avid Reader ⚜BFF's with the Cheshire Cat⚜’s comments from the Reader's Paradise group.

Hello there, y'all! I'm currently out of school and won't be starting my job for a while so I'll be active on this site. If there's any questions, concerns, or if you just feel like chatting, PMV me anytime! :)

I hope we can get some more activity going on in this group, as it has been rather sleepy for the past month or so. I'll get right to organizing the June BOTM some great reading material to kick off Summer.

I am enthralled to now be a moderator for just a great group!

Sounds good.

I just saw your message and I am sorry to hear you are stepping down from being moderators. I'd be very interesting in becoming one. I'm a moderator for another group on Goodreads with 1600 members so I have some background as being one.

Sign me up, definitely.

They're just gray or black shirts with the original John Tenniel illustrations on them. Three are Cheshire-cat themed. :)

What's funny is I just hated this book when I was younger. I didn't like how "British" it was and it just straight out confused me. However, being older and reading an annotated version by Martin Gardner (which I wholeheartedly recommend), I am blown away by how amazing it is and I think it may be one of my favorite books of all time. Lewis Carroll actually inspires me to this day (I love the history of how this book came to be. It's brilliant). I find the book beautiful and complex. There are so many theories behind it and they're all fascinating. This is one of the only books I've read that can be perceived as both nightmarish and/or beautiful. You could even call Alice in Wonderland a horror book. There's this movie called "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders" that reminded me of Alice in Wonderland so, so much.

I now have 7 Alice in Wonderland themed shirts in my wardrobe. I never thought I'd start out disliking a book so much to loving it to pieces. I think it's a book you appreciate more as an adult as you don't catch the references when you're a child...but I would definitely recommend reading this to younger children.