The Last Battle

Although this book was reasonably action packed and less boring than some of the others, I think it might have been my least favorite of the whole series.  From the start it just felt overly preachy, talking about a false Aslan, as though it would be a surprise later when no good comes of that.  [...]

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The Silver Chair

First off, this one was significantly less boring.  There was no seemingly endless sailing!
We start this one off at the school Eustace goes to, where this girl Jill is being bullied.  For what it’s worth, apparently the kids at this school all call each other by their last names, so she is Pole and he [...]

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

So this book bored me so much I forgot to read it for awhile.  And then forgot to blog about it too.
I remember starting this one when I was younger, and got to the part where they get into Narnia by being sucked into the painting.  And when it was set at sea I think [...]

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Prince Caspian

This book was significantly better than the previous one.  Much more interesting, stuff that was easier to care about.  It’s easy to see why Disney chose this as the next movie in the series, cuz it’s the next one that happens to really have anything of note.
*****
We start this one off with the four kids, [...]

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The Horse and his Boy

I took a little longer to read this one than the previous two, mostly because I felt super bored by it.  I just couldn’t bring myself to care much about the characters and the plot.  I’m hoping that the stuff in this book turns out to come up in a later book, because otherwise it [...]

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Despite there being 8 or whatever books in this series, this is the one that everyone knows.  So far, it’s also the only one I know I’ve either read myself or had read to me in the past, and with the movie that was out recently, I was again made familiar with the story.
*****
We all [...]

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The Magician’s Nephew

I had initially intended on blogging about each chapter as I went, putting down my thoughts about each one.  But as I went on, I started finding that they were really too short for that, and I didn’t exactly have a lot of thoughts about individual chapters.  So, I’ll likely just comment on a book [...]

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The Magician’s Nephew – The Wood between the Worlds

Nothing terribly outrageous or noteworthy in this chapter.  Just fantasy stuff with Polly and Digory, trying to figure out the rings.  I like that the chapters are short, easy to get through.
I think if I had been the children I would have wanted to examine the woods to see if anyone else was there.  Who [...]

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The Magician’s Nephew – Digory & his Uncle

“Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures.  Ours, my boy is a high and lonely destiny.”
Unless school has changed quite a bit, I recall being told very early on that we’re all individuals, blah blah.  I was also taught to be [...]

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The Magician’s Nephew – The Wrong Door

I’m next to positive I never read this book.  It was my introduction to prequels and I remember feeling kind of cheated by this, to know that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe had been read to me, then suddenly there was this earlier book.  I liked chronological order, early inklings of an obsessive [...]

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