JACK

This is a very good book about an amazing man.

I learned a lot about CS (Jack) Lewis from this book. It was nice to read a book written by someone who knew him personally.

I learned:

- He loved poetry.

– He grew up in Ireland.

- He did not own his main home, the Kilns. It was owned by Mrs. Moore, but he was able to live in it until the end of his life.

- He had many friends and he was very witty.

– He was very close, throughout his life, with his brother Warren.

– His brother Warren was an alcoholic.

-His father was a big influence throughout Jack's life until his father died.

– He was an avid reader, smoker, and tea drinker.

- He was active in World War 1 and he was injured in the war.

- He had a very close relationship, for years, with Mrs. Moore, who appears to be a mother figure.

- He truly had a loving relationship with Joy, his wife in his later years.

- He had several life-long friends. Most of these friends were also authors or other literary experts.

- He liked to take long walks with his friends.

– He was very generous with the royalties from his publications.

– He was an avid reader of poetry, classics, and other books.

I was surprised that near the end of his life, when the author listed a number of books that Jack re-read, the Bible was not listed.

The biography does not talk much about the Bible. However, Jack wrote one of the most widely read Christian books: Mere Christianity.