I did head down to Warwick to pick up my drive. RI is a little lacking in road signs like street signs and such, so it took a little longer than expected. And I expected it to take a long time, since the roads were covered in packed down ice and snow and slush… but it wasn’t that hard, I was only a block past the correct street when I pulled into the Shell station and the nice girl behind the counter pointed to the lights I should’ve turned at. After getting the package, I realized I hadn’t eaten since before work, so I headed back to the shopping area I had passed on the way, hoping for, at least, some food court food.
As I was pulling into the mall plaza, I saw the marquee for the movie theater and Narnia was up there. I couldn’t resist the call, so I went in and found a showing about a half hour away, got a ticket and then headed over to the food court to get some food.
A little backstory is necessary here. When I was … um … somewhere between the age of 9 and 11 … I was looking through the weird stuff we had on shelves and in boxes in our basement and found a box set of three books. I could tell that they were old by the cover art, and well-read by the creases and folds and worn down corners. I believe they were The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I was not a reader. I was young, but I didn’t have any unnatural love for books, by any means. The cover art alone, though, intrigued me, so I started reading them. Being the hyperfocused little kid that i was, I read all three that day. I really enjoyed them. In my memory, this was the first book(s) I had ever picked up on my own, of my own free will, and read. I don’t think I ever read any of the other books in the series.
On going into the theater, what I remembered from the story came more from some animated version that I saw sometime between reading them and now… but it was a very moving and well done movie, regardless. I would say that I enjoyed it as much as the first time I read the book. I’m torn on whether or not I should re-read the books. The first website I found said that the series should be re-read several times… so maybe I should.
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