Coicoy

The Silver Chair has always been a notable book to me, for a few reasons. For one, it is one of the darkest tonally in the whole series and it was the one I found somewhat scary as a growing child. For another, it was one of the books adapted by the BBC for their series of televised productions, which I remember watching with my best friend Chris O. And then there's my mother, whom I must mention again. I am fairly certain that my introduction to the book came after my mom called me Puddleglum , or said that I was talking like him, or something along those lines. She said it with a smirk and a wink, and it stuck with me. So, when I first read the book, I was a bit amused and slightly bemused. I mean, I was generally a positive and optimistic child, at least I thought so, and Puddlglum's repeatedly referred to by Eustace and Jill as a wet blanket, and he's constantly expecting the worst outcome. He's an aptly named character. And with his musings come a fair amount of w...

The first time I can remember hearing of  The Chronicles of Narnia  by C.S. Lewis was sometime in my childhood, and I remember two specific details about my introduction to the series of books. For the first detail, I remember being in the backyard of Cordelia's house. Cordelia was our friend and neighbor-down-the-street, and her mother often used to buy us McDonald's Happy Meals whenever we hung out, if I recall correctly. Although we were young, Cordelia had learned some of the Greek alphabet, and that was the first time I heard the letters  Alpha ,  Beta , and  Gamma  as being associated with anything other than the Alpha Beta grocery store that existed in our neighborhood in those days. What we were doing, besides talking and using our imaginations - as children do - I do not remember. But I believe I remember noticing the cover to  Voyage of the Dawn Treader  and being captivated by the cover - it looked like some sort of dragon ship. I pro...