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i just finished two books: dissolution by c.j. sansom and alice's adventures in wonderland.

dissolution: meh... i really have nothing else to say.

alice, on the other hand, is lovely. i've seen the disney cartoon before, but never read the story. i liked it a lot, and the version that i checked out is lewis carroll's original story, but someone did contemporary watercolors of alice and the events in the book. it was beautiful :) and it fits in nicely with my british literature theme that i'm still working on.

i am reading the second book in the series by sansom. this is because the first one was loaned to me by a woman at work who really liked it and saw that i had been reading victorian literature. she thought i might enjoy it. so she just assumed i wanted the next one and brought it in as well. she says it's better than the first. i'll give it another try. the funny thing is that i could see the book as a movie--it might make a better story with some good old fashioned hollywood embellishments!

oh, also fyi: i had been trying to read the chronicles of narnia since december. i was reading the big volume of all the stories in the order that c.s. lewis wanted them (not in the order he wrote them). i couldn't do it. i really wasn't that into the stories and i just couldn't finish. so i read the magician's nephew; the lion, the witch and the wardrobe; and the horse and his boy. then i returned it to the library. don't know if i'll ever finish it. i know that many people love these stories--i can say definitively that i don't...