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Dang, this is so good and so sad. Rowan and Citra have my heart.

I begin to wonder if I chose the wrong translation--we shall see...

Here. we. go. 🫢

So dense, but so good. All Christians should read this at some point!!

Listening to this one as an audiobook but definitely want to buy a hardcopy to make notes in!

"The heart of man is not compound of lies,
But draws some wisdom from the Only Wise,
And still recalls Him. Though now long estranged,
Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed." - from Tolkien's Mythopoeia which he wrote for Lewis as Lewis was coming to grips with the True Myth of Jesus 😭😭🥹🥹😭😭🥹🥹

"All over the board my pieces were in the most disadvantageous positions... my adversary began to make his final moves." - Lewis talking about when he was about to be saved and become "the most dejected and reluctant concert in all England." 😂🥹🥹🥹

"... nearly all that I loved I believed to be imaginary." - a disillusioned Lewis 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"I never sank so low as to pray." C.S. Lewis, an atheist at the time, about his time in WWI. A poem he wrote during that time reads "Come let us curse our master ere we die, for all our hopes in endless ruin lie, the good is dead. Let us curse God Most High." This chapter is 😭😭😭😭

"I desired dragons with a profound desire." - Tolkien about loving dragons as a child. Same, Tolkien, same. :'')

"A myth points, for each reader, to the realm he lives in most. It is a master key; use it on what door you like."

Bruh.

I don't think I'm supposed to ship Nar and Seren, but I am??????

A bit of an audiobook palate cleanser after The Beauty Myth 😤

Seems like could be some truth and some hogwash 🤷🏼‍♀️

I'm scared, but here we go

This whole book is just the love triangle getting more and more out of hand 😭😭😭 only thing saving me are the parts where the love interests aren't present

I feel like I've highlighted 1/3 of what I've read. Whatever the Ortlunds touch/write is infused with such clarity, simplicity, beauty, truth, and gentleness. I already recommend this book to all Christians.

Strapping in, wish me luck

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I don't say this often, but I literally CANNOT EVEN

I'm screaming

I have a strong feeling I'm aboutta be in way over my head 😅😅

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I've got that wild rereading hair at the moment