Alice in Wonderland

The 11th book that I have read is Alice in Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), which, despite its title, is suitable for both genders. Like all the other books I have read, the story is filled with adventure. 5/5!

Here is the summary of the story.

A young girl named Alice finds that a white rabbit is rushing to some kind of event. She follows him down the rabbit hole and finds that she is too small to enter a door she wanted to enter. She finds a key for that door and finds a drink that would shrink her. She realizes that she left the key on the table and eats a cake that makes her nine feet tall! She soon sees after a few moments that she is now in a forest and keeps on changing sizes throughout the story. She also finds out that everyone in the forest is insane. After a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, she enters the small door from earlier into a garden. The Queen of that land offers Alice to play croquet, with flamingos as mallets, hedgehogs as balls, and two playing cards with heads, arms, and legs as the arches. She executes many players to settle the arguments. Afterward, they are in a trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the tarts (obviously from the nursery rhyme). Alice soon snaps out of her daydream.

-End of Summary-

Side note: the “1 in 45 chance” from the previous entry/review involves a mathematical concept called factorials.

Here’s how it’s done:

___n!___
(n-r)!r!
With 10 as n (number of items), and 2 as r (books I didn’t like), this is the new structure:
___10!___
(10-2)!2!
We can simplify further:
___10!___
8!2!
Solving for the factorials by canceling out the factorials, we get:
___90___
2
90/2=45. It is a 1 in 45 chance.

Because I have read 11 books, the chance becomes less likely (1 in 55).

If this is too confusing, ask me to explain it further. J