In which I reminisce about the girl who introduced me to Narnia and how The Silver Chair helped us negotiate our friendship.
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Tag Archives: Silver Chair
The Silver Chair and a Childhood Love
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My Friendships Grounded in Literature
In this latest memoir installment, I look at the friendships in my life that revolved around literature.
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Childhood Confusion: Reading to the Rescue
Continuing on with my “A Life in Literature,” I look at some of the works that impacted me when I was 8-12. These include authors Lewis, Tolkien, Burnett and Shakespeare.
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My Literary Introduction to Eels
Poaching is ravaging the populations of endangered eels. I first discovered eels were edible in a C.S. Lewis novel.
The GOP in Trump’s Coils
Trump is like the witch in Lewis’s “Silver Chair,” casting a spell on the GOP that gets them to believe an alternative reality.
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Morgan Le Faye through the Ages
Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]
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