Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

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She was set to share the inspiration behind the improbable love story of Davidman and Lewis at the Adventures by the Book Spring 2020 Literary Tea Adventure on Saturday, March 28, but the event was canceled. While I did like the story, and appreciated the way Joy’s particular challenges were presented, I struggled to stay invested. Upon completion and this might seem a bit silly, but Becoming Mrs Lewis is definitely a book that made me feel like for just a few hours, Joy and C.

I first read an excerpt of this stunning new book and longed for more, so was ecstatic to receive a full review copy from Thomas Nelson-Fiction. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Having only read Lewis’ work before and not knowing about this relationship, I couldn’t see where the story was going.

This is perplexing and a little distressing to Joy, who has a strong libido and had “pursued men with embarrassing voracity” in an unsuccessful attempt to find solace, to fix her loneliness. S. Lewis and over time through their letters finds herself falling deeply in love with Lewis's words which represent the man he is. His faith and very literal and rigid understanding of the commandments prevents intimacy for what seems to Joy—and the reader—forever!

S. Lewis were an unlikely match, separated by an ocean, an age difference, ghosts of the past, and the general complications of life, and yet love has the power to conquer all. She dives into “history and philosophy books, with religious texts and pamphlets,” it changes her religious view or rather non-religious. Some swearing (mostly the h-word) and sexual references also contributed to my negative opinion of this book. I have anticipated reading this book for months and FINALLY got to the top of the library wait list a few weeks ago.Overall, I am a little let-down I didn’t have the experience I was hoping for with this book- but I did like the book enough to give it a three- star rating- mostly based on the quality of the writing and that I learned a lot about Joy’s life and found her journey to be unique and interesting, if very sad.

Loughborough High School forms part of the Loughborough Schools Foundation, a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity in England and Wales. The italicized thought of Joy mid page 320 “or take me in your arms and set me down on that bed and make love to me”. Students at Dunottar have also benefitted from this, as Dunottar has free school licences to use any of the books that I’ve written.But apparently in the past I've picked up so much random knowledge that it is shocking when I don't know everything about people I admire. Sometimes you think “there’s no way she said that aloud” then “there’s no way someone thinks she’s an intelligent person for saying that aloud” then “dear lord someone shut her up”. A: Acceptance was so important to Joy because it was something she never had as a child, or as a wife in her first marriage. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I know this is historical fiction—not necessarily fact—but it served to make real people even more real to me.

I did not see a woman who was attempting to work on her marriage, although this could just be because of the author's representation, and trusting in God to work through her marriage or through her divorce. There was some things with the children — that didn’t sit right with me either …(abandoned them for several months— telling her children she would bring them back lots of presents)…. She speaks (and thinks) in ridiculously long winded monologues about herself (or she waffles on about absolutely nothing). She’s selfish, promiscuous, and even childish in her thoughts and conversations regarding her parents. There were some wonderful reading moments in this story as the author interspersed Joy's poetry and sonnets with the text of the story.

I’m sorry though, that she never enjoyed the fullness of marriage with the man she loved, which, in my opinion was unnecessary, and I’m sorry her health was so fragile, and she died so young. Even though I knew what was to going to happen to bring the book to a close, I still found a tear escaping my eye. I was SO positive I was going to love this book, and am disappointed it didn’t grab me, as it has so many other people. You’ll end up being very annoyed at both Joy Davidman, for being someone presented as intelligent and humble but talks at length about her wit, and C. Another was a time when he felt like he knew exactly what his mother wanted and brought it to her just as she needed it — a simple fly swatter.