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| Nov BOTM: Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 29 2010, 03:55 PM (773 Views) | |
| mary024 | Oct 29 2010, 03:55 PM Post #1 |
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Head Honcho. Gyeah!
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Alive I Have Been By Melanie Benjamin Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.” Her life was permanently dog-eared at one fateful moment in her tenth year–the golden summer day she urged a grown-up friend to write down one of his fanciful stories. That story, a wild tale of rabbits, queens, and a precocious young child, becomes a sensation the world over. Its author, a shy, stuttering Oxford professor, does more than immortalize Alice–he changes her life forever. But even he cannot stop time, as much as he might like to. And as Alice’s childhood slips away, a peacetime of glittering balls and royal romances gives way to the urgent tide of war. For Alice, the stakes could not be higher, for she is the mother of three grown sons, soldiers all. Yet even as she stands to lose everything she treasures, one part of her will always be the determined, undaunted Alice of the story, who discovered that life beyond the rabbit hole was an astonishing journey. A love story and a literary mystery, Alice I Have Been brilliantly blends fact and fiction to capture the passionate spirit of a woman who was truly worthy of her fictional alter ego, in a world as captivating as the Wonderland only she could inspire. Click to Purchase Copy |
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| aragorn | Nov 4 2010, 09:58 AM Post #2 |
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Just.Keep.Swimming.
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this looks interesting. I'm so behind on my BOTM reading. |
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| mary024 | Nov 4 2010, 10:16 AM Post #3 |
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Me tooo! And I've read a lot of difficult, intense reads so I picked up a Lisa Kleypas book to help ease that a little. |
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| aragorn | Nov 4 2010, 10:57 AM Post #4 |
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Just.Keep.Swimming.
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which Lisa Kleypas book? Mine Till Midnight?? |
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| mary024 | Nov 4 2010, 10:59 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah! |
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| aragorn | Nov 4 2010, 11:43 AM Post #6 |
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I think you'll definitely enjoy it. I can't wait to read the rest of the series! |
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| burgandykat | Nov 5 2010, 11:23 AM Post #7 |
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The Golden Chaise
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Picked up a copy at the library today (of Alice, not the Lisa Kleypasbook )
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| elite | Nov 6 2010, 02:05 PM Post #8 |
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Always ready for the next book
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The book is not at my library - and it still looks kind of pricey to buy. If I didn't like Alice in Wonderland, would I like this book? |
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| burgandykat | Nov 8 2010, 12:37 PM Post #9 |
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The Golden Chaise
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I'm only about 25 pages in - it hasn't grabbed my attention yet (but it's early). I guess it would depend on why you didn't like Alice in Wonderland...it's a fictional (with some true elements) account of the "real" Alice and her relationship with Charles Dodgson. If you didn't like Wonderland because of the fantastical elements and nonsense, then (judging by what I've read so far) this is completely different. |
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| mary024 | Nov 8 2010, 01:02 PM Post #10 |
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Put my copy on hold. Hopefully I'll get it soon. |
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| aragorn | Nov 15 2010, 05:40 PM Post #11 |
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grabbed the book today...next up after I finish The Girl Who Plays With Fire. |
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| mary024 | Nov 17 2010, 10:49 AM Post #12 |
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Kinda weirded out by the Alice/Dodson relationship. Ick! |
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| Vikks14 | Nov 17 2010, 12:30 PM Post #13 |
Comfy chair
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Wasn't Dodson a child molester? I'm not sure that I would want to read a book about him. |
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| Vikks14 | Nov 17 2010, 12:35 PM Post #14 |
Comfy chair
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OK fine, my above statement is a cop-out. Although I never thought much of Alice in Wonderland because I thought the author was a child molester, I also just don't have time to read the books I planned to this month, including this one — due to a miserable boss! grr |
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| burgandykat | Nov 17 2010, 12:44 PM Post #15 |
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The Golden Chaise
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There's a lot of speculation that Dodgson was a pedophile, which Benjamin uses whole heartedly to move her story forward. What I found doubly icky was how she portrayed Alice in that section. It was like Alice at age 7 wasn't just crushing on him but lusting after him. Thank god for the Leo story that follows all that otherwise I probably would have stopped reading. |
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