Hey, Bird Feed. It is Leida Gold here. We are back with a very exciting new entry into a series that we have sort of unofficially started, where we talk about writers that we really like, often very conservative writers that we really like, and who are problematic faves. And we talk about why we like them anyway and why they're problematic, and why we like them anyway, and why they're problematic, back and forth like that. So I am joined by Brianna Renix, our senior editor.

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I am joined by our newest contributing editor, Ashling McCrae.

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And I am joined by one of our very favorite writers, Dan Walden.

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Yay.

And we are here to talk about C.S. Lewis, who is a problematic

fave, a friend of Tolkien, friend of the show, probably would be a friend of the show, probably would not

be a friend of the show. Take it back. He probably come on the show, honestly. He'd come on the show.

He wouldn't approve, but he'd come on. You've probably know C.S. Lewis from reading Narnia, as many people did when they were children.

He wrote a lot of other things, and we're going to talk about all of it.

So how did you guys start reading C.S. Lewis? Was it also Narnia?

I actually had a slightly different experience from a lot of people.

So I actually had two different sets of the Narnia books. I had one that was like a hand me down from some

cousins. And then I also had like a compendium that I think someone bought me. So it was like all

of them in one. And it had like color illustrations as well, which is like, you know, he bought

when you're a little girl and there's lots of like kings and queens with like nice robes

and pretty colors and stuff.

But the interesting thing is that I actually read them in chronological order.

So I read the magician's nephew first.

Oh, interesting.

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