darth_ender said:

The Silver Chair - I got around to finishing the fourth book in the Chronicles of Narnia. I was nervous about this one because we lost all the Pevensys as protagonists, and now had to rely on "Scrubb" and "Pole." I actually liked this book quite a lot, and really enjoyed their, uh, optimistic travel companion, Puddleglum. That character really added a lot of charm to the story.

I began The Horse and His Boy, but I really felt like jumping to a different series again, so I will finish it later.

Well, it took a long time, but I finally started over with The Horse and his Boy and finished it. It was a charming tale. There wasn't anything terribly memorable in it, but it was a nice addition to the series. Kind of fun to get entirely new characters and see a story set during the Golden Age of Narnia when the Pevensie family reign in Cair Paravel. It also further set things up for the final book, The Last Battle, wherein the bad guys of this book return to take a far more antagonistic role. It doesn't surprise me that the Calormene are interpreted as racist stereotypes, but it must be remembered that C.S. Lewis was a man of his times.

I also have read The Magician's Nephew, which shows the creation of Narnia (of course another parallel to the biblical telling of the Creation of the world), how the witch Jadis came to power there, and shows how Professor Digory, with whom the Pevensie children stayed during the London bombings and at whose house they had their first adventure, played a large role in all of this. I really enjoyed this book.

Now I'm about 2/3 done with The Last Battle, the final book in the series. I can't believe I read the first book for the first time in 5th grade, yet it's taken me all these years to finally get around to finishing the series.