Georgia Scott’s Reviews > Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass > Status Update

"'Do you hear the snow against the window-panes... How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if someone was kissing the window all over the outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'"

I'm struggling with this. It should be fun but just reminds me of a Tom Cruise action film. One thing after another happens and it's putting me to sleep. I want more. I want to know Alice. And I don't. She's just a child who things happen to.

Why do I find reading this so hard? It's meant to be fun, I thought. But increasingly it feels like a dream/nightmare that keeps repeating itself in new versions.

"'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'"
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

"'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!'"

Drowning in tears. Who hasn't felt this at one time? Not strange at all.