Literary Study
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The Narnia Code
Recently, I enrolled in the Hillsdale College course on C.S. Lewis. Having breathed Lewis’s interplanetary trilogy (especially That Hideous Strength) almost continuously for the last year, the chance to hear some expert discussion…
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Reading Highlights
I’m not sure I’ll remember all I’ve read since my last book post, but here are a few highlights at least: Watership Down. What a fantastic (re)read. Who would imagine that a story…
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Deconstructing Penguins
I learned about Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading in the blogosphere, where some homeschoolers have used it to great benefit as a springboard for literary study. It offers the…
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Epic
I’ve had a great experience reading this little book by John Eldredge aloud to my two daughters. Epic: The Story God is Telling and the Role that is Yours to Play takes up…
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The Fellowship
What then, were the Inklings? Was John Wain right to call them (as we reported on the first page of this study) ‘a circle of instigators, almost of incendiaries, meeting to urge one…
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On Stories and Other Essays on Literature
For those interested in a thought-provoking journey into a writer’s mind, this collection of C.S. Lewis’s literary essays contains some gems. Aside from the title essay, which I wrote about a few weeks…
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On Stories — C.S. Lewis
I’ve been thinking about the title essay of this collection. In it, C.S. Lewis ponders what we’re really after in our reading, and takes issue with the notion that there is a certain…
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The Pleasures of Reading
Plan once appealed to me, but I have grown to be a natural worshiper of Serendipity and Whim; I can try to serve other gods, but my heart is never in it. I…
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The Evolution of Adam
It’s hard to know where to begin writing about the experience of reading The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins. It isn’t a book about evolution,…
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The Discarded Image
Have you ever wanted to escape your time? Most of us read at least partly to do just that. But our efforts are limited by something we can’t easily escape: our own minds,…
