In the sixth book of The Chronicles of Narnia, children are called from our world into Narnia to restore a prince to his throne. (Sound familiar?) The children are Eustace, from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Jill Pole, a girl who attends school with Eustace. Naturally, they have been summoned by Aslan, whom …
Daily Archives: 14 December, 2008
Book 382: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
This and The Horse and His Boy are two of my favourite books from this series. In this story, we set to the high seas with Caspian, the rightful king from the previous book, the two younger Pevensies, and a new character, Eustace Scrubb, a generally disagreeable sort of boy who eventually turns out rather …
Book 381: Prince Caspian
This is the point when the Narnia series starts to acquire a faintly sinister subtext, for those who read closely. On the surface, this is just a book about the Pevensie children returning to Narnia to restore a rightful king to the throne, but it’s also about the end of innocence and childhood. At one …
All I Want Is Your Money
Well, not really, but the diamond lobby really wants you to think so, judging from the slew of “hey, you know what would be a good idea? Going out and buying a diamond!” ads that have been making the rounds. Now, diamond advertising tends to go up around Christmas, so it really shouldn’t surprise me, …