Hello, stonefire! Happy new year to you too!
I’ve seen your name in the chatroom, but didn’t say ‘cause I was just popping in and couldn’t stay, so, hello!

Merry Christmas to you too, knight!

Recently read the English translation of Lonely Castle in the Mirror. There’s a couple of swears and a scene of a man behaving inappropriately toward a teen girl, but other than that, it’s clean reading. The story is of seven kids brought together through a magical portal, where they slowly open up ...

Chapter 13: The buildup to Ramandu's island is so peaceful. Smooth sailing (literally!), bright days, open skies, and -- despite my earlier observation of wandering-Israel-like tendencies when no land is in sight -- everybody is so relaxed and happy. And then we get to the island, all "pillowy&...

That's what I'd thought too, Lily, that Aslan's being on the island subjected him to the spell somehow, even though that clearly is not the case for those from the Dawn Treader . But if he had arrived at some point after Deathwater, before the Duffers cast the spell, then I think it makes even more ...

Lilyyyyyyy! That last stanza for Dark Island! Ach! I love it. Especially-especially because of the way it ties into the repeated lines. (I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.) Chapter 9: There seems to be a little bit of Israel's wilderness wanderings in this book: whenever they sail for a length of ...

@Lily: I like how you paralleled the claws and writing for chapter 6, and the line "A tale told will kindly haunt you" for chapter 10! (I liked all of your poem for chapter 10, but especially that line!) Chapter 7: There tends to be a focus (rightfully so) on Reep's kindness to Eustace, bu...

I’ve long been partial of the David-centric chapters of I Samuel. Samson was my absolute favourite when I was very small; Esther made it in there at some point; in my teens, I had some fascination with Ehud and with Jael.

I like your Gumpas limerick, Aj, and your Eustace poems, Lily! Chapter 5: For some reason, it never really clicked in my mind before that Lucy got new clothes! "For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands." Feeling a little melancholy, Reep? "Forlor...

@Swan: All thanks to a fic prompt, haha. I’d taken for granted that the Scrubbs are overly pretentious based on how Lewis talks about them, even though there are things on which I intersect with them or can agree on. But it struck me that it’s just as likely, if not more, that at least some of those...