I'm enjoying all your thoughts. @Ariel: It is interesting to wonder if growing up between two boys (and losing her mother) made Aravis less interested in "girl" things. My friend told me her daughter is turning out to be a bit of a tom-boy, possibly because she has a big brother she looks ...

Yesterday was the last day with my parents so I fell behind. But I caught up on the flight back. @Ren. I love your dancing Aravis picture and especially how the skirt flares @Ariel. I was also struck by the phrase "right of standing on his face in his shoes" suggesting just how high his ra...

Thanks for sharing everyone! Lovely pictures, Ren! Happy, I agree that this book starts out with so much hope in how all the major characters are changed in a second. Ariel, I like the contrasts you brought out - especially those looking to how his life will change. I was also wondering about Shasta...

That's lovely, Swan. Powerful thoughts and expresses well in the poem. I can't believe it's been 10 years since I last read HHB!! Since it was the first Summer Challenge we did, it's the longest since I read it last. Kinda crazy when I think about the life changes that can happen in a decade. Ch 1-2...

As our regular members know, every year during the northern summer, we put aside a week during which we read and discuss or post reflections on the assigned reading for each day. This year the Summer Challenge is upon us. It takes places starting tomorrow Mon 9 August 2021. As we are currently worki...

Good point, Corintur, and welcome to the TLC forum. I guess at the time when Lewis was writing, other planets, worlds and universes were equally remote in the popular imagination. So he could transfer the idea of our world having the potential to contaminate other sentient worlds in his different ty...

Thanks so much, Happy. I'm donning my shiny new set all your gifts were so thoughtful.

I was Father Christmas to DaughterofEve3 (yes, sneaky Ajjie approved her own posts )

I was also Elf to The Happy Islander with the three landscape pictures.

Thanks again for taking part everyone.

Hope you enjoyed Secret Santa this year. Giving is over so its time to reveal who you were giving gifts to. If you posted in the elf thread you can reveal it here too. And you can thank your Father Christmas again "in person".

Thanks so much to my FatherC for the last three gifts: the Code Picture, the Ajjie in hedgehogs and the Graphics Set. I love the colours of the last.

Last Day of Gifting is today (27th). I'll put up a reveal thread tomorrow.