So because I have spent so many hours of 2023 reading, my way of recapping the year is to map out a timeline of months with a book for each. These are the books that articulated my unwritten feelings, that made my heart beat faster, that have taken up long-term residence in my brain. These are the books that opened my eyes to the weight of reality.
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After the Last Battle
I thought the Golden Age of Narnia was the brightest, most joyful era of The Chronicles of Narnia. But at the end of The Last Battle, I find that I have clearly been wrong. That age was only a shadow of the brighter still, only good, glorious land remade by Aslan.
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The Dawn Treader and Narnia
At the start of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis writes, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” This is quite true for me as I make my way through the Chronicles of Narnia. By the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I found myself wishing, with Lucy, that my time in Narnia would not come to an end.
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Past the Windows: Reflections on Alias Grace
Half of the public thinks Grace is a cold-hearted, jealous killer. The other half thinks she is a witless, perhaps insane, innocent wrongly condemned. But Grace is neither heartless nor hapless. She is not the kind of person you would expect to find imprisoned.
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