The voice of the one I love most in the world

[coffeesnob318]

1. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café - Fannie Flagg
2. The Whitney Chronicles - Judy Baer
3. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella
4. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
5. Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
6. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland )
7. The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from crop to the last drop - Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger
8. Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living - Bailey White
9. Italian Fever - Valerie Martin
10. Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
11. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
14. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
15. Girl Meets God: On the path to a spiritual life - Lauren F. Winner
16. Big Girls Don’t Whine - Jan Silvious
17. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

The Chronicles of Narnia - There's so much to say. I love these books now even more than I loved them when I was younger. I cried at the same places I cried then; I laughed at the same places that I laughed then. And I still got excited. Every time that Aslan was coming or that there was even thought of it, my heart raced. It was wonderful. I so know that love - the one that would rather be devoured completely by its object than fed by anyone else (paraphrase from the third or fourth book).

There are few books that I read that I don't want to end. This series falls under that category.

Comments

[nonnierms.livejournal.com]

I'm not yet sure how I feel about the upcoming movie. On the one hand, it would be wonderful to see these stories come to life (in a better manner than the oddly creepy wonderworks movies) but then again, imagination can do so much more than the movies. Jack himself never wanted the Narnia Chronicles made into radio or television/movies--I just read a piece by a woman who was trying to turn it into a radio drama and while Jack was as nice as could be and read over her scripts and corresponded with her and had her round for tea, she dropped the project once she realized how much the thought of it upset him.

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

The Narnia books are just amazing. I, too, still get very affected by pieces and parts of them. And I can't imagine I'll ever grow out of them either.

I remember bawling my EYES out the very first time I read them, as a kid. Aslan's death. I was just floored. Characters just don't DIE in children's books!

*TRAUMATIZED*

But seriously, they're so well done. Wow, now I want to go and buy copies of all of them. It's been a few years since I've read them.