A review by catereads
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927 by C.S. Lewis

4.0

All My Road Before Me is CS Lewis's journal for the years before his conversion. The book is filled with off-hand insights about life and literature, but my favorite part was learning more about the role that Maureen Moore played in Lewis's life. Lewis essentially adopted Maureen as a daughter/ sister. Maureen wanted to be a musician, and she had a fairly good music teacher in Oxford. After finishing his 3(!) degrees, Lewis was unemployed for months, but he didn't want to accept a position away from Oxford partially because moving would disrupt her potential music career. Lewis eventually got a fellowship in Oxford. If he'd left and accepted a position elsewhere, he would have probably never met JRR Tolkien. Tolkien would have never converted Lewis, Lewis would have never written his apologetics cannon, and Lewis would have never convinced Tolkien to try to publish The Hobbit. Arguably, the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings would never have existed if it weren't for Maureen.
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