BlogHer - Madeleine L'Engle - Comments

Ooh! Left Hand of

stephaniesays — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:21:54 -0500

Ooh! Left Hand of Darkness--I love that book!
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Re-Read

A Elliot — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:36:48 -0500

I keep meaning to re-read a Wrinkle in Time. I'm curious to see how I view it as an adult. I read Ursula K. Le Guin in college and really liked it. Sometimes I still will randomly think about what it would be like if we alternated back and forth between being so called "male" and being so called "female".
A. Elliot

Exactly.

stephaniesays — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:58:14 -0500

This was a book I read as a kid. Had I read it several years later, it wouldn't have had the same impact on me; other things--other books, people, experiences--would possibly have already taught me about or opened me up to the things that A Wrinkle in Time could have. Or had I just not been the kid I was, or in the family I was in, or in the particular grade and class I was in, it likely wouldn't have struck me in the same ways.

Stephanie
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Re-read indeed!

Suzanne Reisman — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:47:07 -0500

Sometimes I think the impact of a book is at least as influenced by events in my life at the time I read it as the book itself.

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Maybe its time for a re-read

Elana Centor — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:06:16 -0500

I read it. I remember liking it but I don't remember it changing my world view. Now I want to go back and re-read it to understand how I could have read such an important book and not had the same reaction that so many have had.

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love her

super des — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:00:23 -0500

A Wrinkle in Time (and the sequels) still remain among my favorite books. I agree wholeheartedly with Flyswallowfly about Maddy attributing to my sci-fi-and feminisim-ness. She will be missed.

On L'Engle's far-reaching influence

stephaniesays — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:58:05 -0500

I--like many others, I imagine--can relate to what Zarah took from A Wrinkle in Time. I documented my reaction to L'Engle's death on my own blog yesterday, so instead of trying to rephrase what I wrote there, I'll just quote myself in part:

Reading A Wrinkle in Time provided me with one of my first experiences, if not my first experience, period, with the idea that it was OK--and maybe even wonderful--to be different, to be nonconforming, to be a Meg or a Charles Wallace, to not bounce the ball with perfect rhythm (if you're confused by that last one, read the book!). It was one of the first of anything--books, teachers, family--to open my mind to the possibility of things and places we can't see, things and places and truths we don't know exist; to show me the power of perspective; to make me aware of the silliness and superficiality of judging something or someone by appearance or assuming anything about someone's character, experiences, or capability before really knowing the person; to teach me about both the fragility and vulnerability and the strength and resilience of a person's mind.

I loved that book deeply, and the copy from my childhood still sits on my bookcase, with my full name scrawled on the inside cover in careful cursive. . . .

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