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Surprised by Joy (Revised)
Surprised by Joy (Revised) | C S Lewis
This autobiography of C.S.Lewis's early life, focusing on the spiritual crisis which was to determine the shape of his entire life, now repackaged and rebranded as a key title in the C.S. Lewis Signature Classics range. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God...perhaps the most dejeced and reluctant convert in all England. Thus C.S. Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion in his famous autobiography. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and in Surprised by Joy he vividly describes the spiritual quest which eventually convinced him of the truth and reality of the Christian faith.
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Sapphire
Surprised by Joy | C.S. Lewis
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Mehso-so

The last 3 chapters were interesting. But this did not live up to 4 decades of being told this was a fabulous must read.

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Bibliophile_89
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Rach-Reads
Surprised by Joy | C.S. Lewis
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“Finally I woke from building the temple to find that the God had flown.”

This is a beautiful book...

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ImperfectCJ
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1. Always. I want to believe that I live in a functioning democracy so I choose to act as if I do. Also, I enjoy filling bubbles and completing arrows.

2. I'm starting voice lessons (virtual) again today after a 3-year break.

#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon

AmyG Ha! I go for the sticker. 3y
ImperfectCJ @AmyG It is a sweet sticker. 3y
Cosmos_Moon I miss my old state‘s ballots of completing arrows... we have voting machine booths here, and I just don‘t trust them. Haven‘t in the 12 years I‘ve lived in Louisiana. Just doesn‘t feel right and there‘s no evidence I get once I hit the “vote” button. 3y
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ImperfectCJ @Cosmos_Moon We had touch-screen voting in Utah, and I agree that it feels weird. Ours gave me a receipt to show how I voted (I think that got turned in in case of a paper recount, but I can't remember now), but I still didn't feel confident that my votes had all been input and counted properly. I feel more comfortable with hardcopy voting. And you can't hack cardstock. 3y
Cosmos_Moon So true! We don‘t even get a receipt. No hacking... unless there‘re hanging chads 😒 3y
UwannaPublishme 🙌🏻 Cool about your voice lessons! 3y
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Eggs ❤️🌟 C. S. Lewis 🌟❤️ 4y
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Pam.Kokomo
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Pickpick

Just finished book 4 for the year, but I‘ve been working on this one for quite a while. This battered copy is my husband‘s that he bought in Taiwan as a teenage missionary kid. ❤️

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ImperfectCJ
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#GratefulReads #memoir (Day 24).

A few of my favorite memoirs: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, and Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. Can you guess which one I don't own?

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚😊 4y
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AmyK1
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I spent the weekend in the mountains celebrating a good friend‘s birthday and came home to both the books I recently ordered. 😁👍🏼📚 #bookmail

Crazeedi ❤ CS Lewis!! That ones about his wife. So good 5y
AmyK1 @Crazeedi A lot of people think it‘s about his wife but it‘s actually about his early life and how he becomes a Christian. Looking forward to reading it 😁 5y
Crazeedi @AmyK1 oh really? That's awesome! Will be reading!! 5y
frenchhouse_schoolhouse Surprised by joy js on my list! 5y
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Hannah_Haymond

These last two weeks have been a blur, between the holidays and a particularly long-running cold bug for the whole fam. Today, I'm just grateful to tackle the New Year, choosing gratitude and hope over weariness and pessimism. To quote CS Lewis, "There are far better things ahead than what we leave behind". Excited to embrace this New Year with each of you, and to find delight and comfort in the joy of literature together.

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GoneFishing

It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

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GoneFishing

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.

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GoneFishing

All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'.

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GoneFishing

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

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GoneFishing

…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

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Mehso-so

This memoir (of sorts) covers Lewis‘s early childhood through his college years. Clearly he had a brilliant mind and a vivid imagination. He was, however, a rather boring and introverted person. If you are reading this because of his “conversion” story, I must warn you that it is rather anti-climactic and only occurs in the last chapter. This was an interesting book but nothing special.

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suvata
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Almost done with my monthly book club commitments.

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Libby1
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1. 41
2. I have 1 sister
3. I have 1 son who is 7 years old
4. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters and Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky
5. Are you kidding me?!? 😳
6. ❤️💜🌈🕊 - Not bad!
7. Chocolate. No, maybe that‘s my favourite thing!
8. I moved to a foreign country by myself - not knowing a soul.
9. CATS 😻
10. Coffee
11. Surprised by Joy
12. @Itchyfeetreader , @Zelma , @Erynecki 💕

Thanks, @Moray_Reads , @Gyldholm and #HalloWhoAreYou.

TrishB Wow to 8! That‘s impressive. 6y
Velvetfur Number 8 - I've done that before too, it's great isn't it?! 6y
Libby1 @TrishB and @Velvetfur - it takes a special kind of bravery or a great degree of ignorance to move to another country by yourself. In my case, it was youthful ignorance and optimism! 6y
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TrishB @Libby1 @Velvetfur I get nervous enough going in a work trip to a new place - when everything is booked for you etc!! 6y
Erynecki 1. Older than I wish 6y
Erynecki 2. Nope, I‘m an only. 3. Two kiddos. 4. The New Odyssey and Breaking Into the Backcountry 5. Too hard to answer!! 6. 👍😊 7. Mellifluous and throng. 8. I was a soldier in the SF ballet‘s nutcracker. 9. Cats!! 10. Tea 11. Chasing Portraits 🤓 6y
Libby1 @Erynecki - thanks for taking part! Mellifluous is a wonderful word. 😊 I‘ll be watching for more information about the release of the Chasing Portraits documentary. I hope all is going well! 6y
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Libby1
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Pickpick

I was going to move this book for the photo but then I noticed how nice it already looked sitting on top of my handbag!

This is a spiritual autobiography as told through the books Lewis encountered in his youth. Unfortunately, most of these books were classics I‘d never read so it was sometimes difficult to follow.

I found this to be rather academic but there were certainly some gems to be found. Also, I had to forgive a #MisogynyMinute or two.

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Libby1
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“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”

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Libby1
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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere...”

Bradleygirl I read this one earlier this year! 👍 6y
DivaDiane I have wanted to read this book for so long! 6y
Libby1 Excellent, @Bradleygirl ! @DivaDiane - I hope you get to it soon. 😃 6y
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Lcsmcat
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I️ always think of C. S. Lewis as a #joyful author. #yesvember17 @Libby1

Libby1 So true, @Lcsmcat ! 🌼 6y
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Louise
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There have been many such moments of recognition on Litsy. 😊 #blameitonlitsy

Eyelit Truth! 💜 7y
rachelm Soooo true! 7y
DGRachel Yes!! 7y
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evanwsmorgan

I'm going to be starting this soon. C.S. Lewis for the win.

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HeatherBookNerd
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Day 19//#riotgrams #opposites courtesy of CS Lewis. @bookriot

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Bradleygirl
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About halfway through listening to this one- man I hate how messed up boarding school was. I don't want Lewis to have had to live through any of that. Not that it's the point, nor that this is at all a self-pitying memoir, just ugh.
#nonfiction #autobiography

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KindredStar

And with that plunge back into my own past there arose at once, almost like heartbreak, the memory of Joy itself, the knowledge that I had once had what I had now lacked for years, that I was returning at last from exile and desert lands to my own country; and the distance of the Twilight of the Gods and the distance of my own past Joy, both unattainable, flowed together into a single, unedurable sense of desire and loss...

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it." I love C.S. Lewis! This book is a bit different than his other works of nonfiction, but still very insightful, and I'm learning a lot about his childhood. Trying to get a jumpstart on today's topic! #inspiring #photoadaynov16

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BelcherAJB

"Tea should be taken in solitude" what a wonderful quote by C. S. Lewis. A poignant thing to keep in mind as a good book finds its way to your hands.

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BelcherAJB
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Pickpick

Easily my favorite author. This is a first edition first impression which I am honored to own.