The small volume is a memoir or autobiography of the author's faith in God and return to Christianity. My reaction to the book is more a measure of my shortcomings as a reader than this esteemed writer's skills. I was interested in his narration: he suffered several very hard knocks as a child (he was born in 1898, died Nov 22, 1963, same as Kennedy): his mother was terminally ill with cancer and died in the home; his father was an emotional basket case, basically, for all of his life afterward. The boys were sent to a "dying school" with an abusive head master. Enough to make a person doubt in the deity. But never again did he have bad teachers. He lost many friends in WW 1; was wounded himself.
But I could not grasp exactly how he reaffirmed in Faith, as an adult. The intellectual influence of many colleagues from the Academy. Lewis was a "Chair" at Oxford for years.
Maybe I will try the book again--or another by the author. But for now, I am "with" this little newborn shown above.
Here is a link to some of the notable "quotes" generated by the author: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/c_s_lewis
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