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The Moomins

Moomin! I enjoyed the first five books of course but the last four are especially sublime. I love children’s stories with an element of somberness, which Moominpappa at Sea and Moominvalley in November deliver in spades, to the point where I’ve heard some people question whether they can still be considered kids books at all… the answer to which is of course yes! Children’s literature that doesn’t make a child feel and think is the equivalent of junk food IMO, and I don’t think it’s any mistake that all the books/movies/comics I enjoyed as a child I can/do still enjoy, as an adult, today.

Also Snufkin. Who doesn’t love Snufkin?

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty.” – Cs Lewis

Also snufkin is the best ever ever ever ever

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Mere Christianity (1952)

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TIL that C.S. Lewis entered a civil marriage with a woman so she could avoid deportation. Then, after she developed terminal cancer, they eventually fell in love and re-married while she was in the hospital. They were married for three years before she passed away.

via reddit.com

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And then you realize J.R.R. Tolkien wrote C.S Lewis as Treebeard…who lost his entwife

Wormwood, you moron.

Screwtape (a three word summary of the Screwtape letters, by C.S. Lewis)

Source: rerebeccaaw