This year our family fun theme is: CS Lewis Books! He wrote a lot of them. As a family, we’re reading the books he wrote for children.
So these are the CS Lewis books I’m reading for me, and this is how it’s going.
“Oh, that’s one of Lewis’s scholarly books. Are you a scholar?” the pastor asked me last night while I was reading during my daughter’s ballet class.
No, sir, I am most definitely not!
But what else are book clubs for except to push us to new heights? I recently discovered that my friend’s scholé book club is reading:
- A book by C.S. Lewis (how did you KNOW that we’re reading C.S. Lewis as a family this year!)
- A book about his view on Medieval Literature (how did you KNOW that we’re studying the Middle Ages right now?)
So, it seemed ordained by God and I invited myself to her book club.
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Hard Books for Mom
“The Discarded Image” is based on a series of lectures that Lewis gave at Oxford about the Medieval Man and his model of the universe. Did you know he was a medievalist? I didn’t, either. It is a HARD read!
But hey, we ask our kids to read hard things, what about ourselves? Charlotte Mason includes “Mother Culture” in her home educating philosophy.
“The Medieval Mind of CS Lewis” is helping me understand “The Discarded Image.” I’m just immersing myself in Lewis’s scholarly language until my brain gets used to it.
We did have the Book Club meeting and it was amazing. They were all smarter than me, had read more medieval works, and I learned so much from the discussion. I was even able to say a few things to contribute!
“Preparing for Easter” is readable for me, and a nice introduction to a wide variety the religious writings of C.S. Lewis.
“English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding drama” is what I plan to pick up when we are through the Middle Ages. I did not notice the size of that book when I ordered it on Book Outlet! Dangers of online shopping.