First of four.
Over the next few days, I thought I’d post about some of the grief reading I’ve done in the last 11 ish months. I didn’t start reading for several months but it’s coming up on a year since The Reason to read this genre Happened.
Book 1 – A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
What grief collection would be complete without this? And now I have my answer.
I first picked this up about a month in but it was too soon and the words swam and were immediately forgotten so I set it aside for several more months.
When I did read it it was still the first of its kind – and by this time I had observed enough of my own journey for someone else’s to make sense to me in the places it was same and the recognitions where it was different.
This is CS Lewis‘s own observation of his own experience and makes no pretence of being what IS for anyone else but it seems he picked up his pen and began writing very soon after the death of his wife and wrote the observations he noticed along the way. So many strange things happened in my own thought processes I found reading CS Lewis’s confirming – sometimes like a game of Snap (“me too!!”) and sometimes just the fact that he took time to notice what he noticed and that it was significant to pay attention.
There are hard things expressed in the beginning of the book that he brings some resolution to by the end of the book ( kind of diary/journal style) which has taken him some time to get to the end of writing and therefore his thinking and experience has progressed.
This book can be downloaded for Free online.
