Charles Dodgson

Today I visited Borders because I had $5 in Border's Bucks that were about to expire at the end of January. I browsed several bookshelves, fiction, nonfiction, stationary, bargain books, calendars etc. But one that I found appealing just from the cover and title was The Mystery of Lewis Carol by Jenny Woolf. The problem was it was a brand new hard back that would ring up at about $30. (UGH. The price of books.) So I decided to see if my mother was interested in getting it. "Oh, I was looking at that and it looks good," she said. She decided that we'd pick it up at Barnes & Noble on our way home because she had a gift certificate there... ASIDE: There was a shooting at Edgewood's Retail District and I was walking into the store when I heard the gun shots. SCARY.

So, alas I've got a Lewis Carroll biography which is GRRREAT!!!! Last semester I remember going to Wikipedia one night and reading about him there, but the book is proving to be a better experience for me, and less straining on my eyes. On Wikipedia there are not reference of Lewis Carroll's journals and all of those fun things.

So far, so good. I trust Woolf more than Wikipedia and more than Crutcher (Deadline). Carroll grew up as a clergyman's son. It's funny because their church in Oxford is really famous, but not because it's where he went to school, but because it's where the film some of the Hogwarts scenes for Harry Potter.

Lewis Carroll is really a mystery. And I can't wait to get past the basic early life information to the good stuff like his muse for Alice etc.

(Sorry, I've been really ADHD with books lately, I just seem find something and want it, until the next thing comes around...so I've got these ones for a while.)