In The Middle of Narnia

Upon finishing The Horse and His Boy and starting Prince Caspian, I'm starting to think that these books are a little to disjointed for my personal tastes. I still enjoy them as separate books, and maybe when I've finished The Last Battle, it'll all make sense...I just thought it'd be more of a series. The only characters that repeat are the four kids (aka, the Kings and Queens of Narnia, btw), and they barely showed up in The Horse and His Boy. Also, maybe I'm just not used to such short books anymore. Let's face it. Most of the books I read are at least 350 pages because I like to savor the experience of reading a book. I like it if a book takes a while to read because I'm a pretty voracious reader. I fly through books, and 200 page books, if I'm given the time and I give the attention needed, can be an afternoon's worth of adventure. However, lately, it's been taking me longer and longer to read these types of books. Probably because I set my goals too low. Three chapters a night makes each book last 5 nights if I have the energy to read them, and hopefully my parents will insist on watching the Cavs game tonight. I always read better when something is on the TV and I have very little interest in it.

Okay, so, now I'm almost to the middle of Prince Caspian (and I'll rent the movie shortly after finishing the book. Hopefully this time it'll work out as planned.)

I don't know if I like it better than the previous book or not. I liked the romantic tension between Shasta and Aravis in the last book, and any part with Aslan was just epically awesome. Aslan makes me feel safe. He's like pre-Deathly Hallows Dumbledore except he doesn't make mistakes.

However, I like the continuation of the story about Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in Prince Caspian. And even though chapters four through seven had nearly no mention of them at all (except the odd "Remember when Men ruled Narnia?" or "Even the High King Peter was a Man"), I feel like this one is more a part of the series than The Horse and His Boy. I really want to know what the purpose of that book was, and I don't think I'll find out until much later. Ugh.

Okay, so, I think it's time for that short introduction to the book I do every time:
Title: Prince Caspian
Author: C. S. Lewis
Number of Pages: 223
Brief Summary: Narnia, the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Pravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen, and where adventure begins.
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned back from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia--the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.
How I Came To Own This Book: I think I got this through one of the Scholastic book fairs or something
History With This Book: I've owned this book since grade school. I've now read the first three books and am very close to the halfway point of this one. I'd never attempted this one as I don't like reading things out of order, but I'm eager to finish it and then watch the movie based on it.

In other news, I've successfully won a book from a really neat site called goodreads.com. I never actually expected to win it, but the geekiest book I will possibly ever own is on its way to my house in the coming week or so: The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English From Shakespeare to South Park. Oh, yes. That's the title of the book I won, and I can't wait to read it...which means I need to pick up my pace if I'm going to read and then review it for the people of goodreads.com and Bloomsbury Publishing.