This came up on the FB group "The British Bookclub"
January 2021 and The Monthy Reading Challenge is:
"A children's or young adult book"
Well, I'm thinking Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" or "Through the Looking Glass" could be good choices for this topsy turvey world.
I actually studied "Through the Looking Glass" in a university course. I had a really interesting tour of Christ Church, Oxford. Jim was probably was probably buried in The Bodleian doing research. After the tour I went into the gift shop and they were playing a beautiful selection from "Anthony's Way". Everyone was just enraptured by it. When I asked to purchase the CD, I was told they only had the copy they were playing but I could order it. When I said I was from Canada and leaving soon she whipped it off the player and sold it to me. Everyone in the shop looked up in shock. I felt quite quilty being the person who stopped the wonderful music.
(Anthony Way (born 14 December 1982) is an English chorister and classical singer, who rose to fame after appearing as a chorister in a BBC TV series. He has since had success as a recording artist, with gold and platinum discs to his credit.)
From Wiki:
Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. Scholars are divided about whether his relationship with children included an erotic component.
The Bodleian Library (/ˈbɒdliən, bɒdˈliːən/) is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 12 million items,[1] it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library.[2] Under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 it is one of six legal deposit libraries for works published in the United Kingdom,[3][4] and under Irish law it is entitled to request a copy of each book published in the Republic of Ireland.[5] Known to Oxford scholars as "Bodley" or "the Bod", it operates principally as a reference library and, in general, documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.
