The Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge 2012 :: What YOU Read

Several of you did good this year. =D I think I enjoyed this Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge more this year than last. In part, because my oldest is finally old enough to share Narnia with. Also, I gave myself pretty much the entire month to focus solely on Narnia. Admittedly, it was hard to leave it. I want to go back already! Pacing myself with other reads in the meantime.

As promised - to make it easier for you to browse other people's posts - I'm providing everyone's links right here. Have fun browsing and learning!

1. Barbara H. from Stray Thoughts jumped into Narnia with both feet and wrote up a plethora of posts, all of which are worth reading in my opinion:

• She read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Next she dove into Prince Caspian
• She even managed to make it to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader!
• Here's a discussion on Narnian Magic
• She started reading (and discussing) The Way Into Narnia (worth checking out for sure!)
• Lastly, here's her Wrap-Up Post

Nice work, Barbara! You win my non-existent award for putting the most thought into everything this year, I think!

2. Amy at Hope is in the Word is always fun to have along on this ride.

This year she read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with her girls.
She also read The Narnian (which I have sitting on my bookshelf awaiting my attention.)
Here is her wrap-up post.

3. Jennifer at Blogful of Books read The Silver Chair. It's been awhile since I've read that one. Next year!

4. Jennifer @ Snapshot started reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with her son. Not sure how far they got but they at least had a great beginning. (Hint to Jennifer..you can tell me about it later! ;)

5. Bluerose's Heart wins the Made-Carrie-Oh-So-Very-Happy award by using this challenge to leap into Narnia FOR THE FIRST TIME! (Not to point you out there or anything!) Furthermore, she got others reading it. That just makes me satisfied, that's what!

• She read and wrote about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Prince Caspian
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

So glad you played along with me last month!

6. I know I can always count on Bekahcubed to make me think more deeply about this series. She didn't disappoint this year either.

She spent the bulk of her time in The Horse and His Boy. I'm glad of that because that one is one of my lesser favorites but I think that's because I haven't devoted enough attention to it. Clearly.

• Bekahcubed wrote about Groping for Another Land
• Appointed Times and Places
• And here's her wrap-up post (plus a review of The Reluctant Convert)

7. Narnia-Girl from Lantern Waste also wrote about The Horse and His Boy. She also provided the guest post here discussing her Narnia VBS creations. (If you missed that, click the last link! Amazingly creative and fun ideas with Legos!)

8. Annette at Live, Learn, Love wrote a post about A Book of Narnians (which I promptly turned around and ordered a used copy off of Amazon after reading about!) and shared her experiences listening to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with her daughter.

9. My own posts are as follows:

• First I read The Magician's Nephew
• I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and then Prince Caspian to Bookworm1 (age 4 1/2) for the first time.
• We went to see the Narnia exhibit at OMSI as a family
• I re-posted some thoughts on Adults and Narnia
• We used these tools to help bring Narnia to life in our home
• I read What I Learned in Narnia, by Doug Wilson (Also, I posted my notes from some of the lecture series on Authority and Confessing Sin.)
• Lastly, I focused on the topic of Narnia and Hope

I hope you had as good a time in Narnia as I did this summer. If you wrote a post and I failed to find it/see it, please leave your link below. In the meantime, enjoy visiting around and seeing what else you can learn as you continue to dig a little deeper into this classic (and brilliant!!) series by C.S. Lewis.