My first real introduction to books came in the fourth grade, in the very small library of the private Christian school I attended. I don’t remember how many shelves there were, but in my memory there weren’t many. It hardly mattered. To me, that little room was enormous. There was nothing particularly illicit hiding on those shelves. This was, after all, a Christian school. The Chronicles of Narnia became one of my first go-to choices and, without my knowing it at the time,