Deborah from Texas

 I'm sure you've read Vanauken's incredible A Severe Mercy,

Peter and Lyn: It took me forever to read War and Peace, too. I think there was some sort of conspiracy going on with the names. :-)

Ron:  Just to ease the pain of the last few postings (lol), I'll tell you that when the kids were young, we read to them during breakfast (and, of course, at night - and and at various other random times throughout the day) - we read through The Chronicles of Narnia - maybe more than once.  My daughter grew up to love his books as much as I do, and my son - who's 28 - has been rereading them.  And Tolkien?  I even got my mother to read him.  Occasionally, we've even been able to scratch the surface of his work in my British literature classes (Peter Jackson's films helped spark a bit of interest there).   I'm sure you've read Vanauken's incredible A Severe Mercy, but I didn't discover him until I was grown.  So I'm kind of "into" that whole amazing group.  So y'all can see why the Oxford tour is very interesting to me.  My big dilemna is whether I should brave a car rental for part of my time or just stick to the train and bus, which seems to be able to take you almost anywhere.

Hmmm my link to Amazon.com where you can purchase Ron's book didn't work...I must have done something wrong