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The First Men in the Moon
I read H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon while creating a course on C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in Lewis’s Ransom trilogy. Lewis was a fan of…
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Be not conformed
Yesterday, I revisited my favorite discussion of Lewis’s space trilogy, David Downing’s Planets in Peril. A book-length critical study, it draws together numerous perspectives on the novels, includes a lengthy bibliography, and gives…
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Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…
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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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Keeping Company
I’ve kept company with some old friends, and some new ones, in the pages of books over the last few months. Though I’m not sure I’ll remember them all, I’ll try to record…
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A bigger, better story
Looking around at the irrationality and destruction and rage tempts me to despair. But I drew some encouragement from C.S. Lewis this morning. It wasn’t current events that prompted me to pick up…
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Mere Christianity
Somehow, I’ve never been able to read this book before. I’ve tried a few times but never gotten beyond the first few pages. Recently I tried again with the help of an audiobook…
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Devilishly Clever
The Screwtape Letters. Most of us have read it at one time or another. I reread it this week with my daughters and was struck again by its often disturbing relevance and genius.…
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A Life Observed
In A Life Observed, author Devin Brown offers a biography of C.S. Lewis for a new audience: “a generation who may know him only through the Narnia films.” Though I don’t fit into…
