Books Purchased at the C. S. Lewis Colloquium

Books Purchased at the C. S. Lewis Colloquium:

Some of the books...

1. Light: C. S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story by Charlie W. Starr
2. Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning by Owen Barfield
3. The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith by David C. Downing
4. Looking for the King by David C. Downing
5. Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
6. Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers
7. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
8. Spenser's Images of Life by C. S. Lewis*
9. Selected Literary Essays by C. S. Lewis
10. Inside Prince Caspian: A Guide to Exploring the Return to Narnia by Devin Brown
11. Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader: A Guide to Exploring the Journey Beyond Narnia by Devin Brown
12. The Gray Wolf and Other Stories by George MacDonald
13. The Wise Woman and Other Stories by George MacDonald
14. The Golden Key and Other Stories by George MacDonald
15. Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry by Owen Barfield
16. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
17. Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C.S. Lewis by James T. Como
18. Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
19. Reflections from Plato’s Cave:  Essays in Evangelical Philosophy by Donald T. Williams

*Of course I really need to read Spenser's Faerie Queen before reading this...

10 Books I Am Reading

10 Books I Am Reading Now & Next

1. Light: C.S. Lewis's First and Final Short Story by Charlie W. Starr
2. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs
3. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
4. The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith by David C. Downing
5. Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers
6. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
7. Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change by Paul David Tripp
8. On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
9. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
10. The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit


What books are you reading now or plan to read next?

Monday: 10 Books that Changed my Faith

Wednesday: 10 Favorite Books from Childhood

Thursday: 10 Books that are Classics

Friday: 10 Books I read over and over

Saturday: 10 Books I am Reading

Sunday: 10 Books from When I was Wee

The 2012 Colloquium on C. S. Lewis and Friends

Tomorrow I will drive to Taylor University to attend my first conference related to C. S. Lewis! I've been wanting to attend one for years!

What I am most excited about:
Hearing Charlie Starr present: "Light: C. S. Lewis's First and Only Short Story". I've been looking forward to reading Dr. Starr's new book since I first heard about him starting it around a year ago!

I'm also looking forward to hearing keynote speakers Alan Jacobs and David Downing.

The following are the titles of papers to be presented that most interest me:

Jan Prewitt, "Examining the Characters of Two Minor, But Nevertheless Heroic, Characters‐Sam and Gimli‐as They Relate to the Heroic Journey as Described by Campbell"

Joe R. Christopher, "C.S. Lewis's Lost Arthurian Poem"

Jonathan Himes, "Feminine Leadership: Lewis's Reason and Spenser's Britomart"

Martin Batts, "C.S. Lewis and a Return to the Great Books"

John Stanifer, "A Prisoner's Duty: The Sacred Role of Reading in the Christian Life"

William Vaus, "C.S. Lewis' Reading of George MacDonald"

Benita Huffman Muth, "Few Return to the Sunlit Lands: Lewis's Classical Underworld in The Silver Chair"

Sharon Kotapish, "The Intertwining of Reason and Imagination: Casting Truth in an Imaginary World"

Kimberly Moore-Jumanville, "C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the Necessity of the Terrible Good"

Donald Williams, "A Tryst with the Transcendentals: C.S. Lewis on Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, Part II: Truth"

David Rozema, "Facts and Meanings: From Word to Myth"

Paul Michelson, "The Evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien's Thought on Fairy-stories"

Constance Rice, "Renewed Interest in popular Culture of the Fairy Tale"

Crystal Downing, "From Versailles to Verneuil: The Shaping of Dorothy L. Sayers"

Mark R. Hall, "Aragorn and Arthur, Merlin and Gandalf: Tolkien's Transmogrification of the Arthurian Tradition and Its Use as a Palimpsest for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"

Jessica D. Dooley, "Whimsy and Wisdom: Fairyland as a Window to Reality in the Fiction of Chesterton and MacDonald"

Paulette Sauders, "Through the Lens of The Four Loves: The Idea of Love in Till We Have Faces"

Michael P. Muth, "A Wild Hope: Resurrection Bodies, Creaturely Integrity, and Lewis's Platonism"

Unfortunately I'm going to have to pick and choose between some of these that will be presented at the same time in different rooms... decisions, decisions... (And no, I did not list all the papers being presented. You can see the entire schedule here: http://lewisconference.zondervanlibrary.org/schedule/)