3 songs that go together

Hello!

Lately I've been enjoying a few songs that were really popular in Romania this year and I find that they work together. Without further ado, here are my 3 picks:

Asaf Avidan - One day / Reckoning song (Wankelmut Remix)

Asaf Avidan has an unique voice and a lot of good songs that I'm slowly discovering.

Major Lazer - Get Free

Get free sounds like water, it always makes me think that I'm floating in a deep dark blue sea. There is an alternate video, which offers an important life lesson. You can watch it here!

Santigold - Disparate Youth

This song was featured in a telephone company commercial and it went big here. I like Santigold's voice, but haven't really listened to anything else.

Hope you liked these songs!

How to read The Chronicles of Narnia

Hello!

The Chronicles of Narnia is a magical series, perfect for all ages, especially for all of us who are little kids at heart. If you are like me, the order in which you read a series is very important and in this case we have 2 different ways of reading these books.

You can read the books in the chronological order, numbered from 1 to 7, which is the order in which you find the books in stores.

The chronological order of the books is the following:

1. The Magician’s Nephew
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle


The second way, is in the published order. Like in the photo below:

I opted for the second version, because I wanted to read the books on which the movies are based first and because I didn't want to learn more about Narnia before the first adventure with the Pevensie brothers in this magical land.

When Lewis started writing the books, he didn’t really have much of a plan for the complete series.  In fact, if he didn’t find inspiration for four more books, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader would have been the end of the series.  This would have altered a lot of other book series to come later, as J.K. Rowling has stated that her primary reason for writing seven Harry Potter novels was inspired by and in honor of the seven Chronicles of Narnia.  That was not a coincidence, but an intentional decision she made as a fan of Narnia. 

Here are the books in Publication Order: 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

Prince Caspian (1951) 

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) 

The Silver Chair (1953) 

The Horse and His Boy (1954) 

The Magician’s Nephew (1955) 

The Last Battle (1956) 

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You see, Lewis started the series with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  It is evidenced by not just the date of publication, but also by the language which Lewis uses as the narrator.  When they are in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, the first mention of Aslan occurs:
 “They say Aslan is on the move – perhaps has already landed.”
And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different.

If you had started with The Magician’s Nephew, then you, the reader, would know who Aslan was.  The narrator would not have said “None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do.”

I hope this was helpful. You can read my little opinions on the books in my last 2 book hauls: here and here.

Have fun reading!

June Book Haul #4

I finished reading "The Chronicles of Narnia"! And it is definitely one of those series that you have to read once in your lifetime either as a kid, a grownup or to your children or grandchildren.

Sadly, in June I was able to read the last 2 remaining books of the Chronicles, but I highly recommend them. And now lets proceed by saying a few words about them.

The Magicians nephew is the 6th book based on the publishing order or the 1st book if you would like to read the series in chronological order. The main characters are Digory and Poly. Digory is the professor that we all know and love from the first movie, in whose house Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter stayed when they discovered Narnia. Basically, in this particular volume, we learn about the Which - and why she ends up being so bitter and wanting to rule over Narnia, we meet Aslan for the first time and see how he creates the magical land and how he gives the animals the gift of speaking. This is one very important book, because it teaches you a lot about Narnia's beginnings.

In "The last battle" we are reunited with Jill and Eustace, the heroes of "The Silver Chair". There are many rumors concerning Aslan, but what the Narnians do not know is that the Aslan that gives them order to kill the trees and to make slaves out of the talking animals is only a donkey dressed in a Lions fur, who is ordered by a Monkey. In the end everything we used to know about Narnia will end and the true Narnia will arise, and all of our heroes from the first book will return and remain there, with one exception. This last book raised a lot of contrary opinions. All I have to say is that I understand why this book had to end the way it ended, considering it is a Christian allegory.

I can say that the last book was special, it had it's twists and turns, and in the end things happened the way they were supposed to.

I really do hope more people will start reading this Chronicles and have fun and go on adventures together with the characters.

Because of the lack of books mentioned in my last book hauls, I will make another post about the ways in which you can read the Chronicles of Narnia.

Keep reading!