It is delightful and definitely worth buying, if a little short. When I am slightly cross with C.S. Lewis, I like to open this book up and read a little of it, and then I love him again.

(I like librarians! As long as they are not judgmental.)

i had recently bought, “Companion to Narnia” which, i will add, i wasn’t intending to buy at all. it just jumped out at me, as if a red flag was waving like mad with a wailing voice of “BUY ME!” so i gave in, and it’s a GREAT encyclopedia for anything Narnian.

anyway, back to you. i’m very interested in finding this book “CSLLTC,” and since you’re a proud owner of it, is it as good as it sounds? i mean, just reading that excerpt makes me want to plunge into that book (after i find it in the bookstore, hopefully! fingers crossed!)

i discovered Lewis’ books when i was in sixth grade, but lost interest in it for a time; that was my Philip Pullman Dark Materials stage.

but now, in my twenties, i’m fervently returning to my Narnian childhood.

thanks for this blog.
love the library story! love libraries; hate librarians. they’re the “trolls under the bridge” haha!

cheers!
always,
Saffron

Aw, thanks! That is the nicest thing anyone’s said to me all week.

Well, that’s good to know. I really want everyone to love the Chronicles of Narnia, but not everybody does, you see. I’m glad you read them to me when I was three! Lo these many years ago!

The two people I know who didn’t read the Narnia books until adulthood were unimpressed by them. Er, but I still can’t help feeling that it’s much better to have read them, than not to have read them. The Horse and His Boy is my favorite one. I love the way C.S. Lewis writes – he writes lovely spare sentences and doesn’t waste words. You just have to be aware that he’s going to be a bit (sometimes a lot) sexist, but the books are just charming.

Thanks! 🙂 Actually, when I first got my grown-up blue library card, I kept losing it and having to get another one. I went through a number of library cards before finally settling on this one. There’s this one librarian who always says “You know, we have new library cards that are stronger than this,” when I check out, and I always tell him I’m happy with my library card and I really want to keep this one. He just won’t listen to me!

I’m bad at maths but I’m pretty good at languages. The problem is never having anyone to talk to. I’d really like to do an immersion program in one of my top five need-to-learn-them languages. I think that would be fun!

Anyway, I’ve totally been in beginner mandarin classes before too (as well as Japanese, Spanish and French) and I’ve failed and somehow ended up dropping them all… except maybe French. So much for a language major.

Hmmm…I too am bad at maths…