Lucas Stoffel

Book Review: The Magician's Nephew is the Narnia book I wish more people started with. C.S. Lewis wrote it sixth in the series but it is the chronological prologue — the story of how the world of Narnia came to exist, and how the White Witch got there, and why there is a lamppost in the middle of a forest. Greta Gerwig's Netflix adaptation, coming late 2026, is reportedly starting the movie franchise here rather than with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. That is the corr

"The Night Circus" Book Review: I have read a lot of books. Hundreds of books. And if you asked me to pick one — one book, one world I could live inside forever — it would be this one without hesitation. The Night Circus is my favorite book, and I am not being hyperbolic. I mean it in the way that some people mean it when they talk about a song that changed their life or a place they visited that rearranged something in their brain. This book rearranged me.