It’s our last week before starting school, and we’re spending it in Narnia and Middle Earth. The Narnia Challenge inaugurated a Narnia-fest that shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Since the Challenge concluded, I’ve read The Narnian and Till We Have Faces. The girls have listened to The Last Battle in audiobook form, [...]
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Several weeks ago, when I finished Catching Fire, I pre-ordered this book from Amazon. Last week I decided I was mature and cool-headed enough to wait till the library copy was available, canceled my order, and put my name on the hold list. Then a few days ago, in Walmart (that goldmine of cultural riches), there [...] Till We Have Faces is C.S. Lewis’ retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. As he explains in a note at the end, he alters the tale somewhat. The resulting story explores the themes of faith, jealousy, love, and the deceptiveness of words. This is the third time I’ve read this novel, and I think [...] I read Hannah Coulter(2004) when it first came out, before my blogging days. Recently my book club (is that too grand a term for three people?) decided to read it again. We are all mothers at different stages of the journey. This novel promised to make for some interesting learning [...] The White Witch is a historical novel about the English Civil War(s) of the 17th century. It is surely one of Elizabeth Goudge’s best works, capturing not only the political conflict of Puritan against Royalist, but the many smaller-scale conflicts that characterize human existence. Some of these conflicts are [...] Catching Fire is evil. No, I’m not making a moral judgment of the story. I mean it’s evil to leave me hanging like this! This is the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy; the third won’t be released till next month. I didn’t think this would be a problem for me, since [...] The Country of the Pointed Firs is a quiet story that relates the narrator’s impressions of Dunnet’s Landing, a small community on the Maine coast. Published in 1896 after being serialized in the Atlantic Monthly, the novel (or novella) is mainly a collection of character sketches. Though it takes a [...] I read Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden for my book group. I was enthusiastic about reading this modern-day Gothic tale about a child mysteriously left on an Australian dock whose quest to uncover her true identity ends up spanning three generations and two countries. On the whole I enjoyed the [...] I thought I had set Elizabeth Goudge aside for awhile, but when I found myself with unusually long periods of uninterrupted reading time over the weekend, I picked up The Little White Horse to alternate with the other book I’m reading. I enjoyed it thoroughly and wonder how on earth I missed it as a [...] “I think a woman’s history is very often like those old romances you laugh at,” says Lady Lucilla Eliot. “You may laugh at them but they were truer to life than many of those psychological novels you young people read nowadays. We women don’t sit half the day and night analyzing our emotions but we [...] |
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