Is it okay for me to admit that I wasn’t exactly excited about reading The Horse and His Boy aloud to my children? (Yes, I know this is breaking one of the cardinal rules of reading aloud–that the reader must be excited about what he or she is sharing. A-hem.) I picked it up anyway … [Read more…]
The Silver Chair is one of my favorites of the Chronicles of Narnia, coming in after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and possibly The Voyage of the Dawn Treader–it’s definitely in the top three. Do you know why I love it so much? Puddleglum. Pure and simple. Never has a character, except for perhaps … [Read more…]
The Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge at Reading to Know has become an annual tradition for me, with the added bonus this year of it also being the Reading to Know Bookclub pick for the month of July (which simply means that the challenge is doing double duty). This year my plan is to simply pick … [Read more…]
It has been nice spending time in Narnia again this year, thanks to Carrie’s Narnia Challenge. The challenge ends today, so I thought I’d make a tidy little round-up post of all things Narnia here at Hope Is the Word. First, this year I read and reviewed The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Narnian … [Read more…]
I finally finished The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs earlier this week. Although it was a slow go for me (more on this later), on the whole I enjoyed this thematic look into Lewis’s life and works immensely. The Narnian is not a difficult read at all, and despite … [Read more…]
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