There'll never be a cup of tea big enough nor a book long enough to suit me. ~ C.S. Lewis

Without further adieu, here are the illustrious books of Brilliance, Wisdom, Hilarity, Beauty, Charm, Truth, Tall Tales, and History:

• E.L. Koningsburg:
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  • The View From Saturday
• Leif Enger :
• So Brave Young and Handsome
• C.S.Lewis:
  
• The Narnia Code
• The Discarded Image
• The Dark Tower (unfinished)
• The Space Trilogy
• Trenton Lee Stewart
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• G.K. Chesterton
• The Man Who Was Thursday - (I will make a movie someday, I will, I will, I will...)
• The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
• The Ball and the Cross
• Check out his poetry
• Alexandre Dumas
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Last Cavalier
• Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle
• Sherlock Holmes
• Frank Peretti
• This Present Darkness
• The Cooper Kids Adventure Series
• N.D. Wilson
• The 100 Cupboards Series
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• North & South

Movies that make your heart feel like a rumble, tumble, mumble, awe, raw, ache, quake, break, baffle, wonder, laughy-taffy shake.

• "The Maltese Falcon" - just watch it, it's the king of character development
• "The Goonies" = my childhood and yours
• "What's Up Doc"
• "Momento" - see it twice
• "Dear Frankie" - Gerard Butler

Please add any that I may have inevitably forgotten, but not forsaken.

It was thrilling, inspiring, intriguing, exhilarating. refreshing, whimsical, laughable, and stirring to see you.

I will miss our witty, clever, brainy. wistful, tinguling, comical, and yet brilliantly brooding and distinguished conversations.

Here's to knowledge and how we use it.

Here's to humor and what we choose to laugh at.

Here's to beauty and how we see it.

And here's to life and the willing acceptance to walk the road we're on, no matter how much our feet hurt.

Cheers. I love you!

p.s. did you know:

C.S. Lewis', Mere Christianity, has a chapter titled “Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe,”

Hmmm....makes me want to re-read everything of his...looking for code clues...

In that chapter, Lewis claims that until people repent and want forgiveness, Christianity will not make sense. Christianity explains how God can be the impersonal mind behind the Natural Law and also be a person. It declares that, since we cannot meet the demands of the law, God actually became a human being to save us from our failure....

p.s.s. I'm going to be thinking in code from now on out...

p.s.s.s. I can't wait to start reading, I feel like I'm starving and about to dig into the best dinner ever.

p.s.s.s.s. You know you're a nerd when: you compare books to eating.

xxoo

C.M. Daniel