Gift Book of the Year (so far)

Wow, the lavishly illustrated The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Their Friends

has occupied too much of my time. I couldn’t put the thing down.

What this book is a sumptuous, color collection of pictures of the Oxford worlds in which Lewis, Tolkien and friends lived. Even a picture of a bus riding up Headington Hill — on which ride Lewis came to the conclusion that there was a God.

Included are tours of Oxford for walkers.

A must-have for Lewis and Tolkien lovers.