Ah, Little Women. 

Boss and I had a brief conversation about books today during my lunch break. My children's librarian friend very generously supplies me with books to read on occasion and often these books come from the young adult or even children's section. Boss noted that he certainly has read his share of young adult and children's books as well because they're oftentimes fun, breezy reads where everything works out okay. There's just something so comforting about a good children's book where the heroes prevail and all is right in the end! I lamented to him that adult fiction was often incredibly depressing, and books are generally my chosen "escape" from the real world. He teased that The Hunger Games are hardly the stuff that dreams are made of, but hey - they're still a pretty quick read!

I told him how I reverted to reading the early Harry Potter books when I was going through a time of stress (basically when I had relayed my intention to leave my previous job and was in the process of looking for a new one, not that he needed to know that), and he told me about returning to The Chronicles of Narnia.

Me: You know, I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew as a kid, and then didn't read the rest of the series until I was older. It sort of changed how I felt about the books. When I read The Last Battle, I was so shocked at the ending!

Boss: Yeah, they were pretty overtly religious.

Me: Sure, that was part of it. But really, I was mad that they cut Susan out of "Narnia" or heaven or whatever because she grew up and became interested in lipstick and boys!

Boss: *LAUGHING*

Me: I'm just saying! I was never really able to look at the series in the same way again!

"The Problem of Susan" has been well-covered otherwise, but I really can never pass up the opportunity to tell people how angry it made me! But anyway, this is really just me reiterating how much I love having bosses that I can laugh with at work!