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September Douglas Gresham claims that Jack Lewis was the finest man and the best Christian he has ever known.
Of course, Jack to Douglas is C, S. Lewis to the rest of the world, The informal address Gresham uses to refer to the great writer is indicative of the intimacy he shared with Lewis for a dozen years, living in England as Lewis's stepson.
Jack's Life is an affectionate account of days now long gone, It is a personal memoir of a man who touched many in the classroom, even more with his pen, and made a significant, lasting, and eternal impression on one young man.
Douglas Gresham is uniquely qualified to offer such an extraordinary portrait, Douglas Gresham is the stepson of C, S. Lewis. He has insights and experiences that other biographers of the famed Christian apologist do not, Although this is a brief bio it provides much information about the Moore family's relationship with Jack, as well as The Kilns, home of Jack and Warnie, and later joy Davidman and her two sons Davy and Douglas.
When joy was thought to be dying of cancer, Jack prayed that the pain she was currently experiencing be taken from her and given to him.
It was. They considered this transference a miracle, I finished this book in one afternoon quick, easy read, but interesting, I had told myself that I was not going to read another biography of C, S. Lewis I think I had already read, plus the fictional Becoming Mrs, Lewis, but at the end of Becoming Mrs, Lewis I learned that her son Douglas had written a biography of C, S. Lewis “Jack”. I HAD to read the biography written by his own stepson, and it was great,

One thing I really liked was that it does not read like a typical biography, It is conversational, not bogged down with dates or indepth analysis of the subjects motives or philosophy, etc.
It is just a straightforward account of the trajectory of Jacks life, I usually am excited when I start a biography, then get bogged down in the middle, they all seem to get so tediousnot this one.


One slight criticism I would have liked to hear more stories about the boys life with Jack both before and after their mother died.
They met Jackyears before their mother married him and spent a lot of time with him, After she died, he adopted them and raised them, Douglas states “Jack was the finest man and best Christian I have ever known” what was that like The book seemed to spend most of its time on Jacks life before he met Mrs.
Gresham, and once they meet and marry it seems to gloss over the rest of their lives until they both eventually died, a handful of years apart.
I would have liked to read more “family stories” from that timebut it just occurred to me as I typed that both boys would have been away at boarding school, so I guess there wasnt a ton to tell.


So.for an insightful, interesting biography, Fast, Easy Read. The author was Lewis Stepson and he gives a short easy biography of Lewis life, I wouldnt read it again but it was a nice break from some heavier reading, I learned much, and it has inspired me to tackle some of Lewis earlier writings, As a recent student of all things C, S. Lewis I sought to read this book to learn more about Lewis' life with Joy Davidman, This book was penned by her son Douglas Grisham, I was very disappointed. First, his style of writing appears to be trying to emulate Lewis' style in the

tales of Narnia.
This means he writes to inform ayearold which obviously any reader who wanted to know more about Lewis would not be.
Second, most of the book was written about a time Gresham would have personally know nothing about, In fact his mother, Joy is not even mentioned until pageof apage book, I would have thought he would be able to share stories of his time living with Lewis, but there is not even one such recollection and one wonders what happened to him and his brother after she dies and he is left under Lewis' care.
Again, he tells us nothing of interest or value, Very disappointed and if you want to study Lewis' life I'd skip this one as a source, A short and easy to read biography of a great man, Was interesting, but not well written, He repeated himself so so many times, The book couldve been much shorter, But what I really wanted was to hear how CS Lewis was a father to him, But he didnt really go into detail about that, He just told the chronological events of jacks life, over and over
He missed the mark I think.

Also there were quite a few sexist/chauvinistic prideful statements that were gross,

In fairness I believe he went more into his own experience with Lewis his previous book Lenten lands.
But I was hoping for a little more here, Happy to have read this book, Learned much from it about living this life and loving others, Always great to read about a Christian who is a deep thinker and practical about the servanthood of those who follow Christ and His Word.
Fun, interesting read. Excellent writing.

The biography is especially captivating because of the author's voice, I enjoyed the contrast of learning about such a brilliant man and then having the author jump in with a childlike statement of how people are or how things ought to be it's like eating salty crackers with savory cheese.
Loved it.

Beautiful descriptions of scenery and seasons, I felt like I was there,

The war scenes paint a clear picture of a young man's expectation of war vs realty.
Millions of young men lost, So many others traumatized and/or wounded for life,

The timeline jumped around in a confusing order in one or two spots, but other than that, I highly recommend! A delightful read that has proven to be a good timetraveling machine this week, as well.
I find myself looking for this book whenever I have a quiet moment to spare, Gresham's style is simplistic, but gives sufficient explanation for you to form your own visual of C, S. Lewis as a young boy at school, then a scholar living at The Kilns, and on into the rest of his life.
Gresham even tells a bit about his most famous works and the C, S. Lewis that we are most familiar with,

This is a book I recommend, There are a few silly "first edition" errors in spacing and punctuation here and there, but that adds to the charm of it.
It's as though your friend has written you a long letter about his favorite person in the world.
. . and by the end, you can't help but feel the same way, There are editorial comments here and there, as well, which blend into the narrative almost completely,

I'll give you a taste right here:

", . . It was called, "The Inklings," but even that was not in any way a formal name for it.
The word inkling means a sort of vague idea, If someone asks you a question and you don't have any idea of the answer, you might say, "I don't have the faintest inkling.
" It could also mean someone who plays with ink, and back in those days writing was done with a pen made of a wooden handle with a steel nib attached to it.
You dipped your nib into a bottle of ink or an inkwell and then wrote until the ink on the nib ran out, usually about six or seven words.
Then you dipped again. "

"Friends and Good Fellowship," Page,