Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Wednesday, September 30 2009.

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• Removed a contributor: C.S. Lewis: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Wednesday, September 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: C. S. Lewis: (Primary Author)
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Michael edited the table of contents of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Preface

  I. The First Years
  II. Concentration Camp
  III. Mountbracken and Campbell
  IV. I Broaden My Mind
  V. Renaissance
  Vi. Bloodery
  VII. Light and Shade
  VIII. Release
  IX. The Great Knock
  X. Fortune's Smile
  XI. Check
  XII. Guns and Good Company
  XIII. The New Look
  XIV. Checkmate
  XV. The Beginning

Michael edited the quotations of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “Of myth<Of myth> ...can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy -- cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”C.S. Lewis

Michael edited the quotations of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “Of myth>myth ...can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy -- cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”C.S. Lewis

Michael edited the quotations of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “<OfOf myth> ...can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy -- cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”C.S. Lewis

Michael edited the quotations of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added a quotation: “A fear that guarded the road to Faerie was one I could face.”C.S. Lewis
• Added a quotation: “That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world. I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”C.S. Lewis
• Added a quotation: “...the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”C.S. Lewis
• Added a quotation: “<Of myth> ...can I have been unhappy, living in Paradise? What keen, tingling sunlight there was! The mere smells were enough to make a man tipsy -- cut grass, dew-dabbled mosses, sweet pea autumn woods, wood burning, peat, salt water. The sense ached. I was sick with desire; that sickness better than health.”C.S. Lewis
• Added a quotation: “This, I say, is the first and deadly error, which appears on every level of life and is equally deadly on all, turning religion into a self-caressing luxury and love into auto-eroticism. And the second error is, having thus falsely made a state of mind your aim, to attempt to produce it.”C.S. Lewis
• Added a quotation: “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”C.S. Lewis

Michael edited the quotations of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I am here struck by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”C.S. Lewis

Michael edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added: Lewis recounts his boyhood, early years, schooling, war experience, and his conversion from atheism to Christianity

Timothy Gray approved Kat Krackernuts’s request to combine 31 books, including Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Sunday, August 30 2009.