I'm going to take a break from reading classical literature for the moment but please give a listen to my new podcast The Magical World of Rowan Farfington Blarney and travel to a different place and a different time. 

Scientists say trial judges should stop doing this immediately. 

The unexpected benefits of growing at unusual rates. 

Most people do this one thing while playing croquet. 

If you're a Mock Turtle in Wonderland, click on this link.

10 surprising benefits of the Lobster Quadrille.

What advice did the caterpillar give to Alice? Did you just call me a pig? Who wins the tea-cup shuffle? Learn all these answers and more in this episode of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 

Why are they trying to ban Alice in Wonderland? 

Top Five Reasons to Eat Cake.

Doctors urge Alice in Wonderland readers to stop doing this one thing. 

Is Alice growing or is the house shrinking? Listen to this episode and find out. 

Will more men die in the hunt for Captain Flint's buried treasure? Will Jim and the faithful crew return home to Bristol? What is Long John Silver's fate? Find out in the final chapters of Treasure Island.

Chapters 33 & 34. 

Dr. Livesey comes to treat the sick, Jim, Silver, and the doctor make a pact, the treasure hunt begins, the pirates hear a voice in the woods.

Chapters 30, 31, & 32. 

Jim sends Hands to the bottom of the sea, then returns to the house to recount his heroics. Silvers gains a hostage and Jim learns another hard lesson of life at sea. 

Chapters 27, 28, & 29.

Jim risks all to cut the schooner loose; he cruises in Ben Gunn's coracle, boards the now loose Hispaniola, strikes the Jolly Roger, and engages Israel Hands in a test of wills and wit. 

Chapters 23, 24. 25, &26. 

Young Jim Hawkins picks up the narrative once again; the mutineers attack the stockade; Jim goes truant once again. 

Chapters 19, 20, 21, and 22.