Book Review - The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis

My mom, sister and I are in a book club together - we call it "Literati".  It is a cool way to stay connected as we live many miles away from each other.  One of the benefits of a book club, is that you are able to digest the book together after reading it - which for me, as a verbal processor, helps me really decide what I thought about the book and what to take away from it if anything.  

But also, I just found this cool website - Good Reads.  As I hope to continue growing in how much I read, I am reading other books while we are reading for Literati.  So this website is a fun way for me to revisit books I have already read, keep tabs of ones I want to read, and digest ones I have just read.  If you are a reader, I highly recommend it so far!


Here is a review I just wrote after finishing The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis:

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The Four Loves was a fabulous read - I underlined probably 25% of the book. For me, Lewis has yet to disappoint, but this one was very applicable and insightful. Love is something that is ever talked about in our culture - so many wrong perspectives of it, so many manipulations of it. It is interesting to see how Lewis pegged many things that are applicable to us today, though written many decades ago. It helped me identify ways to view different relationships in my life, and how to peace at peace with some as well. In the Chapter on Eros, Lewis gives a fabulous description of a husband's love toward his wife, which written between the lines is also a description on how a wife should be toward her husband. One of my favorite insights from this book, from the chapter on Friendship, says "By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets."

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