Narnia Reading Challenge

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Chronicles of Narnia Reading ChallengeI’m joining Carrie‘s Narnia Reading Challenge for the month of July. I somehow had not read or even heard of these books until maybe twelve years ago — I don’t now how I missed them. I did read the series through along with a biography of C. S. Lewis. I’ve been wanting to revisit Narnia and this is a perfect opportunity.

I always struggle between wanting to read new books or reread good old ones, and I have a lot of new ones sitting here, so I am only going to commit to reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. What I’d like to do is read that and Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the rewatch each of the corresponding Disney movies. But if I did that I’d likely not get anything else read. So for now I’ll just go with the one, and then we’ll see. I may get so caught up in Narnia I won’t want to stop with just the first one. 🙂

I was trying to decide whether to read them in the order in which Lewis wrote them or the story order (evidently that is a bit of a controversy out there), and this article gives good reasons for doing the former.

I’m looking forward to it!

4 thoughts on “Narnia Reading Challenge”

  1. I’ve been considering rereading the Chronicles too. They are such good books and easy to read. I prefer reading them in the story order instead of the order in which Lewis wrote them. It helps me keep track of the Narnian timeline within the stories.

    ~ Melinda ~

  2. I’m so glad that you are “in” on this. I used to be a proponent of reading them in the order that Lewis wrote them. (I figured “that’s that!”) However, now I prefer to read them in chronological order. Helps the history of Narnia flow a bit better, I think.

  4. I originally read the Chronicles in the order they were written–but have since tended to read them chronologically (unless I’m just reading one of my favorites.)

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