Tag: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

• 12 Banned Books to Read

  This is the week that we celebrate books that have been banned or challenged. Usually, the books are banned from school libraries or from being taught in school. The reasons given seem valid–sexual content, dirty language, racism–but dig a little deeper and you’ll generally find that the true reason is that these books seem dangerous.…

  Shannon Turlington

  September 26, 2014

  Reading

  12 Books, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Animal Farm, Anne Frank, Banned books, Catcher in the Rye, Challenged books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Diary of a Young Girl, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JD Salinger, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Lois Lowry, Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury, Reading list, Richard Adams, Roald Dahl, The Giver, The Hobbit, To Kill a Mockingbird, Watership Down

• Accidentally reading about reptiles…

  I realized with the first two reads of the year, I have an accidental theme going on: reptiles in my fiction! With Swamplandia! it was alligators; then there is a snake in The Burn Palace: A Novel. Our upcoming book club read is set in Texas, so I wonder if a lizard will figure into the plot.…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 20, 2014

  Reading

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alligators, Burn Palace, Crocodiles, Dark Tower, Dinosaurs, Everything’s Eventual, Fictional reptiles, Horns, IT, Jungle Book, Jurassic Park, Just So Stories, Little Friend, Lonesome Dove, Lost World, No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Poisonwood Bible, Reading, Reptiles, Small Gods, Snakes, Swamplandia!, Turtles