As my husband put it on his blog, it turns out one of the 100 Cupboards leads to the Today Show! Al Roker of the Today Show has selected 100 Cupboards as the next book they will be reading for Al’s Book Club for Kids. You can find out more about it here and here.
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Today is the big day that The Chestnut King is released, and I have my own copy hot off the press. You can get one from Canon Press here, so you have no excuse not to grab yourself a copy! I promise you, it is a wonderful story.
I’m reading for the first time C.S. Lewis’s Letters to an American Lady, and there is something worth quoting on every page. Take this for an example:
Yes, I too think there is lots to be said for being no longer young; and I do most heartily agree that it is just as well to be past the age when one expects or desires to attract the other sex. It’s natural enough in our species, as in others, that the young birds should show off their plumage — in the mating season. But the trouble in the modern world is that there’s a tendency to rush all the birds on to that age as soon as possible and then keep them there as late as possible, thus losing all the real value of the other parts of life in a senseless, pitiful attempt to prolong what, after all, is neither its wisest, its happiest, or most innocent period. I suspect merely commercial motives are behind it all: for it is at the showing-off stage that birds of both sexes have least sales-resistance!
Hello one and all! Unapologetic plug of husband’s book ahead. I hope everyone has preordered a copy of The Chestnut King at Canon (bookplate=great stocking stuffer) as well as entered for your chance at free, signed copy over at N.D. Wilson’s blog (contest ends soon). The newest of the news is that there is now a book trailer. Go take a look!
Canon Press is pre-selling The Chestnut King which is the third book of N.D. Wilson’s (okay, so that’s my son Nate’s) 100 Cupboards, a new fantasy adventure that follows the magical exploits of Henry York and his cousins. (And it is wonderful, I’ve read it!)
Pre-order now and they will send you a free *author-signed* bookplate with a card to put under the tree for Christmas. Only 200 bookplates are available! Books ship January 26th, 2010.
And, they have other cool stuff on sale for Christmas as well. Go take a look!
In case you have never read Pilgrim’s Progress, here is a nudge from me to put it on your reading list for 2010. I’ve read it maybe five times, which is a pitiful showing compared to Charles Spurgeon who read it 100 times. It is considered among the top half-dozen books in the English language, and it has been translated into 120 languages. Dr. John Owen, the great Puritan theologian, was asked by Charles II how he could stand to listen to an illiterate tinker preach (Bunyan was a mender of pots), and Owen answered something like, “Could I possess the tinker’s abilities for preaching, I would willingly relinquish all my learning.” Next to the Bible, Pilgrim’s Continue reading ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’
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