Book Hype hosts Karen, Brittany and Kristen come together to celebrate C.S. Lewis in this month’s author spotlight!

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What we’re reading:
–Atlantis Lost by T.A. Barron
–Big Easy Temptation by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake
–To Love and to Cherish by Lauren Layne
–Officer Off Limits and Asking for Trouble by Tessa Bailey

Book Bites:
-Screenplays versus novels
-Aaron Sorkin’s scripts are great reading material
-Screenplays don’t allow for room to expand upon details of setting
–Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them what will it include?
-Brittany gets to talk about Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
-A great advantage about screenplays is that the emotion is written there on the page

Author Spotlight: C.S. Lewis
-What does C.S. stand for?
-What else has Staples Lewis done?
-Brittany knows a medievalist who basically guided her college career
-C.S. Lewis dabbled in a lot of religious work as a lay theologian
-How much did we know about the religious symbolism in his work?
-Consensus: Turkish delight is DISGUSTING
-What order did we read this books in: chronological or publication?
-Which book is our favorite?
-Favorite Pevensie?
–The Last Battle, without spoilers, warrants a reread
-C.S. Lewis denies that the series is an allegory, but its all there
-There are movies! Karen and Kristen break them down for us
-What will The Silver Chair adaptation mean for the series?
-C.S. Lewis wrote a bunch of other stuff, but we haven’t read much of it
-We’d be interested in exploring his construction of literature
–Surprised by Joy offers a look at his conversion to Christianity
-Will we be exploring C.S. Lewis beyond this episode?

What’s Next:
–Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich
-Thanksgiving break!

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