This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865. Very few works of English-language children’s literature have had such a lifespan. 2025 also marks the 160th anniversaries of Mary Papes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, Mary White Sewell’s Mother’s Last Words, and Jean Ingelow’s Stories Told to...| WWAC
We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out! Emily: A new edition of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells came out November 19th from Tor, and it may now be my...| WWAC
We have entered an era of AI slop. Periodicals are struggling with floods of submissions cooked up by ChatGPT rather than human imaginations, while readers downloading ebooks from Amazon are faced with the possibility of their latest purchase being the churned-out product of AI masquerading as actual creativity or scholarship. While science fiction is no...| WWAC
How has your week been? What have you been reading lately? We’re down to the last week of the year and I’m finishing up the last 2 book for my reading challenges – X’s for Eyes, Laird Barron and Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune. This year, I added more horror books to my reading life, which was great, as was reading more novellas, and posting here at ChapterAdventure twice a week. Now on to the 10+ bookish links I bookmarked recently.| Chapter Adventure