Archive: C.S. Lewis category
I decided that instead of doing homework tonight, I would spend a few delicious hours reading -- something I haven't been able to do as much of since school started. And so I spent an hour or so with Anne Elliott in Persuasion, marvelling at the shallowness of Sir ...
Over the past two or three days I've learned something valuable, something I wish I'd known years ago. It is this: when a guy asks a girl out, there are two possibilities: the girl likes him, or she doesn't. If she likes him, everything charming he does will ...
Upon looking at the syllabus for my Introduction to Theatre class an hour ago, and noting with a small degree of horror that we'd have to put on a fullscale production as our final, I decided to find another way to fulfill the Arts GE. After going through every ...
Yesterday was delicious. I spent an hour or so working on my new novel (outlining it and writing a draft of the first chapter), then read books for most of the rest of the day. Sixpence House by Paul Collins is a delightful memoir about books. I ...
Every thirty seconds someone dies from malaria. Most of those are African children. This is not good.
From Connor's blog, I came across Nothing But Nets, a group dedicating to help stop malaria:
Despite the magnitude of the problem, there is a simple and cost-effective solution to prevent ...
I finished Here, There Be Dragons last night. Remember how I said, "I'm a third of the way into it and liking it"? What I meant was that I liked the basic idea behind the book -- the geography of the imagination, pulling in three of the Inklings ...
Fatigue sits on my shoulders, weighs me down, tugs on my eyelids, hums lullabies in my head. I don't think I'm particularly stressed, but my body begs to differ. Funny how that works. Anyway, I'd love to go home and take a nap right now, since I ...
I've been listening to some Loreena McKennitt music lately, and also reading C.S. Lewis's novel Till We Have Faces (which takes place in a barbaric country on the border of ancient Greece, basically). More than ever before, I've been struck by one thing:
Ancient Greece is dry to me.
Or conversely, ...
Rikker pointed out an interesting find on Google Books. It's a "New Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society." And it's the genesis of the Oxford English Dictionary, twenty years before they got James Murray onboard to edit it.
After that I ...
I read The Last Battle in a two-hour sitting last night. I'd forgotten how wonderful it is to sit down with a book and read it in one long draught, not in these intermittent gulps as I usually do. But then again, reading a book all at once ...
