Search Results for: CS Lewis

I am reposting this 2013 review because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $2.99. The second and third books in the trilogy are $3.99 and $4.99 respectively. (Links to their reviews below) Summary: A Philology professor is kidnapped and taken to Mars It has been a few weeks since I have picked up a CS Lewis … Read more

I am reposting my 2013 review of the Silver Chair because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $1.99. Summary: More allegorical than many of the Narnia books, Eustace and Jill, with the help of Puddleglum, must find Prince Rilian. After finishing the new biography of CS Lewis last week I decided that I wanted to … Read more

Summary: Three essays about the church. I have been working on a two month free trial of Scribd, a Kindle Unlimited and Oyster competitor that offers unlimited access to their library (a Netflix for Books) but also has 30,000 audiobooks. It is the audiobooks I am interested in. Scribe has a far better selection of audiobooks … Read more

Takeaway: An image of what grief may be like. A Grief Observed is one of those books that I have felt like I needed to read but have not wanted to read. I have not suffered a great loss, whether as a parent, spouse, or child. And so reading about another’s loss seems somehow voyeuristic … Read more

Summary: McGrath tries to imagine what type of advice Lewis would give, if you had lunch over 8 weeks. McGrath has written one of the two or three best biographies of CS Lewis, so in my ongoing quest to read more and more by or about Lewis, I was eager to pick up McGrath’s newest … Read more

Summary: An older biography of Lewis, but with the memories of a friend and student.  I continue, after about 18 months of reading about one book a month on or by CS Lewis, to be continually impressed by him. Part of what continues to impress me about Lewis is his humanity in the context of … Read more

Reposting this 2011 review because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $1.99 Takeaway: Wonderful illustration of creation as metaphor It has been decades since I have read the Chronicles of Narnia.  I remember my mother reading them out loud to us on family vacations.  We spent a lot of time listening to my mom read on … Read more

Summary: In the second book of the series Ransom visits Venus. The books of Lewis’s space trilogy are hard to review.  How to you review a classic work of CS Lewis? In the first book, Out of the Silent Planet, Ransom is kidnapped and taken to Mars where he finds a ‘garden of Eden’.  Mars … Read more

Summary: An important, highly readable biography of Lewis. More than several people agree that this is the best Lewis biography to date (see links below).  So far I have not read any negative reviews of Alister McGrath’s new biography. McGrath unlike previous biographers was not a friend, student or family of Lewis.  And unlike previous … Read more