Stacking the Shelves

This is a weekly meme (I'm a few days late!) hosted by: http://tyngasreviews.com

Sorry for the not so great pictures btw! :/

So this week I picked up a proof from work which I've just started to read: 

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It. 

Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live. 

By Daniel Klein

'Fifty years ago it was in the hope of finding some guidance on how to livethe best life he could that led Daniel Klein to embark on the study of philosophy at Harvard, where he began filling a notebook with short quotations from the world's greatest thinkers. Now, decades later, Klein revisits the wisdom he relished in his youth and takes a wryly humorous look at some of life's great issues. From Epicurus and Emerson to Camus and Beckett, Klein expounds upon each pith pronouncement with his inimitable charm and insight. The result is Every Time I find the Meaning of Life... - a light-hearted meditation on the most profound subject there is.'

This goregous looking, intriguing book:

After Alice

by Gregory Magire

'When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she had left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance?

Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question of underworlds, undergorunds, uderpinnings - and understandings old and new, offering ab inventive spin on Carroll's enduring tale. Ada, a friend mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sets out to visit Alice but, arriving a moment too late, tumbles down the rabbit hole herself.

Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause ad effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and bring her safely home from this surreal world below the world. The Whire Rabbit, the Chesire Cat and the bloodthristy Queen of Hearts interrupt their mad tea party to suggest a conundrum: if Eurydice can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or if Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life.

Either way, everything that happens next is After Alice.'

The last book I picked up was actually from an event that I worked! I managed to get a signed copy of:

The Best Christmas Present in the World

by Micheal Morpurgo.

'The chance discovery of an old letter brings to life the story of a Christmas miracle amid the horrors of the trenches.'

& here's a wonderfully embarassing photo of us all at work with him, but I must say, he was lovingly eccentric and funny :) .

* Read any of the above? Want to now? Let me know. Comments & thumbs up much appreciated! x