Looking for the King

Looking for the King by David C. Downing

This book tells the story of two young Americans - Tom and Laura - that travel to England and meets the Inklings, a literary group including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien while research the legend of King Arthur.

The book is an interesting read. The main plot is nice but all too predictable.

The really good thing about the book is that you get to "meet" the Inklings and attend their lectures and more informal meetings at the Bird and Baby pub.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lucy Pevensie: Aslan, will we ever meet with you in our world?
Aslan: You shall.
Lucy Pevensie: How?
Aslan: Because there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

That Hideous Strength

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

For the first time in many years she tasted the word king itself with all linked associations of battle, marriage, priesthood, mercy and power.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never tried obedience.

Equality before the law, equality of incomes - that is very well. Equality guards life; it doesn't make it. It is medicine, not food.

The cardinal difficulty in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, "Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard." The female for this is, "Put that in the other one in there." And then if you ask them, "in where?" they say, "in there, of course."

The final book in C.S. Lewis's Cosmic (or Space) trilogy. 'Hideous' is interesting but not an easy read, mainly because it is too long and lacks pace.

Perelandra

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Could you prevent the Original Sin if you had the chance? Eden revisited, in the unmistakable style of C.S. Lewis.

Not a sci-fi gem (the sci part is weak), but a very good and thought provoking book.

A grief observed

http://viverintensamenteoreal.blogspot.com/2009/10/grief-observed-dor-de-c-s-lewis.html