BRILLIANT. AMAZING. MIND-BLOWING. EDUCATIONAL. INSPIRING. I immediately had to go reread Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (this is a positive). Waffled between 4 and 5 stars--it did drag a little in points, and I wanted a little more explanation of WTF?!?!? --but that may have been because I am not...
What a strange, ambitious book. The idea presented on the cover is that Talbot will be writing about the various influences Sunderland had on the Alice books. And that happens, sure. But really, the book is far more concerned with presenting a rambling history of Sunderland itself, only occassionall...
Astonishing. I had no idea what to expect, but it certainly wasn't a detailed history of Sunderland, the North East, and England in general, plus a deeply researched biography of Lewis Carroll, a look at current culture and architecture, and HOOD knows what else. It's a marvellous Stew of Everything...
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