A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia
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A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from the Chronicles of Narnia is my last book for 2020: last book read, last review. A Year with Aslan was also the first book I started in 2020. Somehow, this seems like a good book on which to end the year.
Like a lectionary, there are readings selected from The Chronicles for 365 days of the year, "combined with thought-provoking questions." Readers are intended to "discover a new and deeper way to experience Narnia" (back cover). I think, for the most part, that I did, although I have done some critical reading on Lewis when I prepped for a senior seminar I taught on him and his work. I also re-read The Chronicles (well, all but the end of The Last Battle--not too keen on rereading when the Dwarves kill the Talking Horses and the Talking Animals are abused by the Calormenes and other atrocities when Narnia falls) but then I do that every year, more or less.
I digress.
I enjoyed this book and liked the selections chosen. Some of the "thought-provoking questions" did seem more aimed at children. I did wonder why February 29 was left out. I chose a favorite passage of my own to reread. I would suggest to the editors, if they ever revise A Year with Aslan, to hold a contest: ask readers to send in their favorite passages, suggest a question, and choose from the entries.
Does "pondering the world of Narnia" help us to "better understand our own[?]" So does any good fantasy.
Recommended.
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A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from the Chronicles of Narnia is my last book for 2020: last book read, last review. A Year with Aslan was also the first book I started in 2020. Somehow, this seems like a good book on which to end the year.
Like a lectionary, there are readings selected from The Chronicles for 365 days of the year, "combined with thought-provoking questions." Readers are intended to "discover a new and deeper way to experience Narnia" (back cover). I think, for the most part, that I did, although I have done some critical reading on Lewis when I prepped for a senior seminar I taught on him and his work. I also re-read The Chronicles (well, all but the end of The Last Battle--not too keen on rereading when the Dwarves kill the Talking Horses and the Talking Animals are abused by the Calormenes and other atrocities when Narnia falls) but then I do that every year, more or less.
I digress.
I enjoyed this book and liked the selections chosen. Some of the "thought-provoking questions" did seem more aimed at children. I did wonder why February 29 was left out. I chose a favorite passage of my own to reread. I would suggest to the editors, if they ever revise A Year with Aslan, to hold a contest: ask readers to send in their favorite passages, suggest a question, and choose from the entries.
Does "pondering the world of Narnia" help us to "better understand our own[?]" So does any good fantasy.
Recommended.
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