After a rough work week (and handful of all-nighters and one sixteen hour day) I was finally able to finish book two in the series. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. By far the most well known book in the series, I've decided not to go in depth on this one because many of you probably already know it. I do love how C.S. Lewis breaks the fourth wall in this book. He does it often and he does it well, just steps right out of the story to address the reader. It amuses me. One such time,
"'It's all right! It isn't Her!' This was bad grammar of course, but that's how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia, in our world they usually don't talk at all."
That snipit is just the right amount of whimsy for me, I laugh and think about how I've never heard a beaver talk but if I ever did I might know what it sound like.
There are plenty of times I wish I could run away to a place like Narnia, talk to animals, dance with the trees, swim with merpeople and do all the things that are only possible in one's imagination. So for now I'll just keep on reading, dreaming and making the best out of the real world I have in front of me.
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