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shewriteswithknives's review against another edition
5.0
I believe anyone who has ever lost or loved, or both, should read this book. The love Lewis has for his wife is astounding. He was so raw with the way he spoke to and about God through his grief. He was unapologetic about it.
I can’t say more without giving spoilers, but read it.
By the end of the book I was crying like a baby.
I can’t say more without giving spoilers, but read it.
By the end of the book I was crying like a baby.
chellyokelley's review against another edition
5.0
A necessary read for anyone in a season of grief. I will likely pick it up again next week and start over from the beginning. And then again the week after that. Over and over until every word is burned into my brain.
sarahl_0220's review against another edition
5.0
I read this book in one sitting, this was a completely different side to Lewis than is shown in his other works. He walked through one of the greatest pains a spouse could face, in losing his wife much too early. He writes about his journey with grief and how complicated and impossible sometimes the feelings are. I think it gave me a new perspective on the weight of death on this side of creation. Jesus mourned the loss of a man that He was about to raise from the dead. We carry the memory of those we lose for the rest of our lives. A very hard read, but a very beautiful one.
smg67's review against another edition
5.0
‘For the greater the love … the greater the grief’.
I am grieving. I am lost. I cannot for one minute imagine a life without my beloved.
On one weekend I read C S Lewis revelations of his own grief and in him I found a kindred spirit; a man unable to fully grasp the depths of his melancholia; a man with questions like how and why. C S Lewis with a deep Christian faith asked the questions of the world and of the God he worshipped. He gave me the opening to express the same questions and cry out with the same anger and grief.
Healing is personal and slow but when those around you struggle to sit not just with death but more so the pain of your grief I highly recommend that you turn to this beautiful book. It’s not an answer and it’s not a miracle but I promise you it will be a true reflection of just how you are feeling, eloquently written and easy to understand and probably for the first time you will know that somebody else knows exactly your pain. That feeling that the grief like a heavy blanket may suffocate you. You are not as you may believe the only person to experience your intense grief. C S Lewis shows us that there is a way out from under. Blessings!
I am grieving. I am lost. I cannot for one minute imagine a life without my beloved.
On one weekend I read C S Lewis revelations of his own grief and in him I found a kindred spirit; a man unable to fully grasp the depths of his melancholia; a man with questions like how and why. C S Lewis with a deep Christian faith asked the questions of the world and of the God he worshipped. He gave me the opening to express the same questions and cry out with the same anger and grief.
Healing is personal and slow but when those around you struggle to sit not just with death but more so the pain of your grief I highly recommend that you turn to this beautiful book. It’s not an answer and it’s not a miracle but I promise you it will be a true reflection of just how you are feeling, eloquently written and easy to understand and probably for the first time you will know that somebody else knows exactly your pain. That feeling that the grief like a heavy blanket may suffocate you. You are not as you may believe the only person to experience your intense grief. C S Lewis shows us that there is a way out from under. Blessings!
memphisholli's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
paigespages's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
4.5
jonscott9's review against another edition
5.0
This spare, searing book was right on time for me. My mother's friend had just succumbed to her cancer battle, and a friend's father died unexpectedly as I was reading it. In these pages, Lewis deals with the grief and pain over the loss of his wife, Joy, to cancer. Candid and remarkably clear are his thoughts on grief, death, an afterlife, and faith. He doesn't pretend to know more than he does, nor does he pretend to have more (or less) belief or strength than he does either.
Lewis filled four notebooks and declared his thinking done as it pertained to grief. Those four notebooks comprise the four chapters of this brief but important book. I'm sure other sensitive, sensible books on grief are out there, but this is the best that I've found.
Lewis filled four notebooks and declared his thinking done as it pertained to grief. Those four notebooks comprise the four chapters of this brief but important book. I'm sure other sensitive, sensible books on grief are out there, but this is the best that I've found.