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A Bargain at Twice the Price
I have blogged before about my problematic love for books, especially the need to own books, to have them around me as a I live and move and have my being. It’s okay: I am working through it. And confederates … Continue reading
Posted in News & Links
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, coffee lovers, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, letters, literature, Out of Print Books, Walter Hooper
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Shedding Light on Lost Manuscripts: A Review of Charlie Starr’s “Light”
It was by instinct that I went to the Wade archive for C.S. Lewis this past summer. I didn’t know what I would find, and when I got there the project I had proposed pretty much fell flat. But … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, Reviews
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Hoax, Charlie Starr, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light, literature, manuscript history, Q, The Man Born Blind, Walter Hooper
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The Surprising Danger of Light
Years ago I remember watching the Val Kilmer film At First Sight. I’ve attached the trailer below; it is a basic boy-meets-girl story with an intriguing premise. A fifty-year-old man has been blind since childhood, but is offered sight through … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Charlie Starr, Death, Light, literature, neurologist oliver sacks, The Dark Tower, The Man Born Blind, Walter Hooper
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The Screwtape Letters Special Illustrated Edition by Artist Wayland Moore: A Bookstore Find Review
Some of my favourite books are found at out-of-the-way second hand bookstores—a dying breed, I’m afraid. During a rainy drive through New Brunswick in June my wife and I stopped at Rags of Time bookstore, a tight, well-organized and overstocked … Continue reading
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Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, literature, religion, Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters, Used Bookstores, Walter Hooper, Wayland Moore
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C.S. Lewis’ “On Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”: A Review
My own journey in studying C.S. Lewis has led me to the consideration of the fictional universes he created—these are the “real worlds” that sit behind his stories, like the worlds of Narnia in his fantasy novels or the Field … Continue reading
Lewis Finds at the Graveside of a Bookstore
In the glorious sunshine of an early Spring, I tripped down Barrington Street in Halifax with my family. We left the Discovery Centre–the Grossology exhibit was a hit with my son–and moved toward the historic sandstone building occupied by John … Continue reading
