Linda the Librarian

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis I love Narnia!  Have I mentioned that I love Narnia?  After listening to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe I needed to continue the series posthaste!   This is a story of what happens to the Pevensie children during their reign over Narnia.  At the end of book two they are no longer children in Narnia, but all grown up.  The Horse and His Boy tells a little about Narnia's relationship with some of the surrounding kingdoms and how they handled a particularly sticky relationship. King Edmond and Queen Susan are visiting Calormen, Prince Rabadash has proposed to Queen Susan and is waiting impatiently for her answer.  When King Edmond discovers a bit of treachery, he and Queen Susan and their trusted advisers need to figure out a way to get home to Narnia.  After they escape, a young boy, Shasta, must carry important news to the friends of Narnia to rescue them all from Prince Rabadash's wrath.  He and his traveling companio

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis I was talking to a friend and patron at the library about this series.  I told her the other day that I want so much to be Lucy, but I think I may be Susan (a little too cynical and slow to believe).  I love re-reading these books.  I cry in the same places and rejoice in the same places every single time.   This is the first adventure of Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy Pevensie in Narnia.  They enter Narnia through a magical wardrobe in fulfillment of an old Narnian prophecy - that all will be made right when Aslan returns and two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve sit on the thrones of Cair Paravel.   I'll just share my favorite scene from the whole book: "You'll understand when you see him." "But shall we see him?" asked Susan. "Why, Daughter of Eve, that's what I brought you here for.  I'm to lead you where you shall meet him," said Mr. Beaver. "

With all the comings and goings of my children for the holidays, I've been a little preoccupied.  My reading pace has slowed down a bit of late as well.  I know I'm not going to make it to my 100 book goal, but I'll be ending in the mid to high 90's this year.  Last year I read seventy-something books.  Stop Mass Hysteria by Michael Savage and Hit Makers by Derek Thompson To sum up what I learned from these two titles, we aren't as smart as we think we are.  Hit Makers describes the different media campaigns or perfect storm of circumstances that make people, music, art, etc popular.  So many times we like things because the right person at the right time comes along and tells us we do.  As far as Stop Mass Hysteria is concerned, we look around today and we see people frothing at the mouth over politics - from both sides of the aisle - again, this is nothing new.  We've had bouts of mass hysteria throughout our history (Salem witch trials, anyone?). 

All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. ~The Last Battle

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. ~Mere Christianity

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. ~Mere Christianity

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.  ~The Abolition of Man

In our own case we accept excuses too easily, in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough. ~The Weight of Glory

If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it's like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. ~The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. ~Essays on Forgiveness

When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all. ~Mere Christianity

"You have a traitor there, Aslan,"said the Witch.  Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund.  But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning.  He just went on looking at Aslan.  It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.  ~The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. ~Mere Christianity

Whatever you do, He will make good of it.  But not the good He had prepared if you had obeyed Him. ~Perelandra 

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. ~Out of the Silent Planet

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. ~Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?  I thought I was the only one."  ~The Problem of Pain

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create).  It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.  ~The Four Loves

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.  It also depends on what sort of person you are.  ~The Magician's Nephew

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer.  Then there's never more than one. ~That Hideous Strength