This must be the year of the reread. I swear I read new books sometimes! But recently I’ve enjoyed digging into old favorites, seeing how they’ve shaped me as a writer, and trying to figure out what made them so good. While I chip away at longer books and wait to get others from the library, I'm starting a new series on The Chronicles of Narnia. In today’s post, I fangirl over The Magician’s Nephew and try to explain why the book is so enchanting that I’ve read it three or four times.

At a used book sale this April, I picked up Shapechanger’s Song and The Last Unicorn (which I plan to read next). After all of the Tolkien books I'd read recently, my brain needed a rest from that sort of hyper-crafted world, something more casual and commercial. Shapechanger’s Song fit the bill perfectly.