Take it from Slate’s book critic, who literally wrote the book about the original Chronicles.
“of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” It’s a sentence that captures the real and imaginative stillness of childhood, at least as I experienced it—before the internet and even before there was much of anything on TV in the middle of the day.
Now—decades later, alone in a big old house in a small Northern town surrounded by the kind of mossy, piney woods that remind me of the forests Prince Caspian rode through while fleeing his evil uncle—some of that old stillness has come back to me. The internet palls, streaming video all starts to look the same, and I can’t see anyone or go anywhere except into those lonely, magical woods. I’m lucky, just as I was lucky as a child, although this time I know it.
This is, in short, the perfect time to devour one more Chronicle of Narnia, a book that so uncannily captures the tone and flavor of the original seven that it’s only fitting Spufford has printed it up with the same interior design and even bound it in a fabric very similar to the binding of the hardcover copies I bought with my saved-up allowance and birthday money.
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