I absolutely love Lewis’s fiction! Till We Have Faces is my favorite novel, I’ve read it four or five times now. I also plan on rereading his space trilogy soon, it’s been a minute. I made a personal goal to read all his nonfiction mostly because I don’t need any intrinsic motivation to read his fiction. I’ve been getting more into nonfiction as I’ve gotten older, but it’s not my go to. So I guess to answer your question, I’m definitely not limiting myself, but rather trying to persuade myself to read his books which I might otherwise not gravitate to. I hope that makes sense!
Oh perfect! I have the opposite problem. I read nonfiction out of curiosity, and I love fiction but I won’t make time for it unless I set goals. So I get it. I had the same goal this year actually because my version of The Screwtape Letters for women comes out next year, so I wanted to really soak in his legacy in the meantime. It’s been awesome!
I’m excited for the planned post on cross-sex friendships! I wrote a bit about my old issue with assuming men communicated like women, albeit badly, and how that led me to have social issues. No pressure to read that post of mine of course, it’s just been such an interesting and useful topic to me to learn about. https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaweaver/p/i-still-suck-at-talking-to-men-an
This all sounds great! But...why limit yourself to his nonfiction?? Lewis's fiction brings home his nonfiction in ways that make it all more REAL.
I absolutely love Lewis’s fiction! Till We Have Faces is my favorite novel, I’ve read it four or five times now. I also plan on rereading his space trilogy soon, it’s been a minute. I made a personal goal to read all his nonfiction mostly because I don’t need any intrinsic motivation to read his fiction. I’ve been getting more into nonfiction as I’ve gotten older, but it’s not my go to. So I guess to answer your question, I’m definitely not limiting myself, but rather trying to persuade myself to read his books which I might otherwise not gravitate to. I hope that makes sense!
Oh perfect! I have the opposite problem. I read nonfiction out of curiosity, and I love fiction but I won’t make time for it unless I set goals. So I get it. I had the same goal this year actually because my version of The Screwtape Letters for women comes out next year, so I wanted to really soak in his legacy in the meantime. It’s been awesome!
Screwtape Letters for women sounds so intriguing!
I’m excited for the planned post on cross-sex friendships! I wrote a bit about my old issue with assuming men communicated like women, albeit badly, and how that led me to have social issues. No pressure to read that post of mine of course, it’s just been such an interesting and useful topic to me to learn about. https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiaweaver/p/i-still-suck-at-talking-to-men-an
I’m absolutely going to read your post! It’ll be nice to have another perspective on this.