For some unknown reason, I have slowed down tremendously on my daily reading. I mean to take thirty minutes here and there to read and relax, but get distracted easily and end up doing something else.
Yesterday I finished a book that I had been reading for ages. It was written by a friend of mine and I loved it and I loved the characters, but I just took too long in getting through it.
Because I finished a book in the afternoon, I started a new book last night. It is a real book, not on my Kindle. Becoming Mrs Lewis.
AMAZON WRITES: When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford professor and the beloved writer of The Chronicles of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters.
Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, found a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.
In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren’t meant to have a voice—and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn’t know they had.
At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer’s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story—a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.~
“Becoming Mrs Lewis” has been in my book stack for ages. I started it last evening while Larry was exercising and could not put it down….I am a fan of C.S. Lewis and I’m holding my breath as I do not want any of my thoughts about Mr Lewis to be debunked while reading “Becoming Mrs Lewis”.
This morning, Larry is in his office working, it is cold and rainy here at The Cottage. Perhaps it is the perfect time to go curl up and read?
What are YOU reading? Perhaps Robin Toujours should start a book list?
Love you beyond the Moon.