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... Hobbit, LOTR, Calvin’s Institutes, Zelazny’s Lord of Light, Carpenter’s Tolkien: A biography and Carpenter’s The Inklings are the only titles I’ve rated, and they all got 5 stars.
Highest Entry date – Oct, 06 entered 363
Overlap with special libraries
The Iliad, August ... ... Barfield and J R R Tolkien (maybe also Chesterton). Barfield was an anthroposophist and linguist and part of the Inklings group.
283 Letters to an American Lady by C S Lewis
201 The World's last night and other essays also by Lewis.
These last two only as gap fillers. ...
almanacs
travel books
Classic fiction
music books
Enneagram
Feng Shui
cats
cookbooks
liturgy
dolls
books by the Inklings, C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. Adding to that are books of an Arthurian nature.
Books getting organized:
ga ... ... in our apartment.
1. Liturgy books (including hymnals, and some biblical material)
2. Travel books
3. Books by the Inklings, also Dorothy Sayers, Chesterton, George Macdonald, and books with an Arthurian interst.
4. Cat books,
5. Enneagram books,
6. Feng Shui books
7. Music ... ... that includes most of the old literary classics and many lay medical books. We both have built up a set of books on the Inklings and Katherine Kurtz and a few other authors. So, the problem is what kind of completeness can we cope with successfully. #6 - From reading the Letters of Tolkien, the the Tolkien bio, and then The Inklings (all edited or composed by Humphrey Carpenter), I would say that your statement is close. I think JRR was more upset by the fact that Lewis stayed protestant (a "Northern Ireland protestant") (the Tolkien bio, ... ... Dorothy Sayers was not a member, though she seemed to be on the same wavelength.
I haven't read the often cited work The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter. ... will usually be granted some form of outward beauty, though it may not be of the conventional kind. See the description in The Inklings of Charles Williams, whose face was “half monkey and half angel.” As usual, my friend Chesterton gets a free pass. But if I were to be really ... To all of you, I recommend--what else?--The Inklings by Humphrey S. Carpenter. As for Charles Williams I have not read The Place of the Lion but I finished All Hallows' Eve a few months ago and quite enjoyed it. Williams' style is often quite slow and so I think he is to be ...
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