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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)

I have been in a reading malaise the last couple weeks.  I have been reading a ton, but bouncing all over the place trying to find something that really interests me.  The Harry Potter books have been recently added to my public library on audiobook so I decided to check them out.  I have read the book, especially the early ones, several times.  But other than the 5th book, I do not think I have listened to any of the books.

I remember really liking Jim Dale as a narrator and looked forward to the book.  The Chamber of Secrets was just the first book to come up on the waiting list, but it has always been my least favorite of the series.  There is nothing bad about the book, but it also seems to be the least fleshed out.  It is still clearly a younger children’s book.  It was book three and then even more book four that really took a turn darker and more teen in orientation.

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Dr No by Ian Fleming

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Dr. NoSummary: Bond fights the bad guy, tries to get the girl

I feel like I watched a lot of James Bond movies growing up.  But when I go back and watch old James Bond I do not remember many.  So maybe I watched the same ones several times?

I have not actually read any of the original books before.  Other than the original Jason Bourne books, I have not really read any of the old spy novels.  I have enjoyed some of the newer, post-cold war spy novels.

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Till We Have Faces…A Myth Retold by CS Lewis

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Till we have faces;: A myth retoldTakeaway: An unusual re-telling of a greek myth.

I have never heard of this book before I stumbled across it on Audible.  I was in the mood for some fiction and wasn’t really interested in any of the books that I had in my wishlist.  After surfing around a little while I found that this book.  It was the last real fiction book he wrote.  It was written and published during his early relationship with Joy Davidman.

Till We Have Faces

According to Wikipedia and the book’s introduction, this was a book Lewis was thinking about from his early days in college.  It is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.  (Although I had no idea what the myth was till after I read the book.)

The basic story is that a princess, Orual, raised her sister after the death of her step mother in childbirth.  The sister, Psyche, was the most beautiful girl anyone had ever seen while Orual was very ugly.  The sisters were separated and the younger sister was married to a God.  But the Orual was convinced that the God was not real or that if there was a husband, it was actually a man that was wrong for her sister.  She convinces Psyche to violate the conditions of the marriage and the God leaves.  But Orual and Psyche are not reunited.

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