November Book of the Month

Caledon Library Book discussion  and Mad Tea Party
Sun, November 18, 2:00 - 4pm SLT
Whitehorn Library, Caledon VictoriaCity
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The Caledon Library's Books of the Month for November are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carrol

These works are both well-loved children's classics, and masterpieces of literary absurdity. They have been turned into sugary animations, and lovingly explored and mined by critics, philosophers, legal theorists and logicians.  The result of a mysterious synergy between The Liddell sisters, Ina, Alice and Edith, and a brilliant and odd mathematician, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, these works have a dreamlike weave of sense and nonsense that invites the reader to fall down a rabbit hole, partake in a mad tea, and play croquet with a queen.
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In celebration of these works, the Caledon Library invites you to Take Tea with the maddest of the mad: the Librarians and the Literary Enthusiasts of Caledon. Costumes are heartily encouraged: March Hares, Cheshire Cats, Knaves of Hearts, Flamingos, Hedgehogs, Chess Pieces, and all manner of characters from the Works of Lewis Carroll are most cordially invited.

Copies of the Works may be had at the library, or found at the following Aetheric Locales

Alice in Wonderland
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/0/3/19033/19033-h/19033-h.htm

Through the Looking Glass
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/lglass18h.htm


For those who should prefer listening to reading, our very good friends at Radio Riel (may their tribe increase) will be broadcasting Librivox Recordings of the two works, the entirely of this week. The bulk of the week, Listening Parties will be held at the  Radio Riel Offices, in Caledon Penzance.

All times are Second Life Time, the which is Pacific Time.

In Serial Format, on the main Radio Riel Aetheric Stream: http://music.radioriel.org

Mon, November 12, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 1 - 4
Running Time: 51 minutes

Tue, November 13, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 5 - 8
Running Time: 57 minutes

Wed, November 14, 6 - 7pm
Alice in Wonderland - Chapters 9 - 12 (09 "The Mock Turtle's Story, 10
"The Lobster Quadrille, 09 (11) "Who Stole the Tarts", 10 (12)
"Alice's Evidence")
Running Time: 37 minutes

Thu, November 15, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 1 - 3
Running Time: 1 Hour

Fri, November 16, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 4 - 6
Running Time: 1 Hour

Sat, November 17, 6 - 7pm
Through the Looking Glass - Chapters 7 - 12
Running Time: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes

The which announcement may also be seen here:
http://radioriel.blogspot.com/2007/11/alice-in-wonderland-and-through-looking.html

AND, for those who wish to simply plunge themselves into Wonderland and linger there
Sun, November 18, 8am - 2pm
Both works in their entirety
Running Time: 6 Hours
On the Radio Riel Aetheric Stream maintained by Laird Brideswell: 
http://snow.slserver.com:9012/stream.m3u 
OR  
http://music2.radioriel.org/

The which announcement may also be seen here: http://radioriel.blogspot.com/2007/11/alices-long-weekend-on-brideswell.html