by Madeleine L'Engle
A Ring of Endless Light is one of my all-time favorite books. I first read it many years ago and when I got the opportunity to re-read it, I was terrified. I worried that even though I had loved this book so many years ago, I wouldn’t feel the same way years later. I was wrong. I feel like I need to...
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle is the fourth book in the Austin Family series. This is a hard summer for Vicky and her family. They are spending an extended vacation with her grandfather who is dying of leukemia, but as if that wasn't enough to deal with, one tragedy after another stri...
I came across this book some time ago on Audible.com where I believe it was free so I figured I'd give it a try. It also fit in nicely with the fact that I am doing a "Reading the Alphabet" challenge and was in search for an "H".I am very glad I stuck with this one. At the beginning I almost gave up...
This book kept me alive when I was a confused, lost tween. I dreamed of having the Austin family as my own and it encouraged and didn't shame my blossoming psychic gifts. I adore this book and have re-read it many times.
Entirely too sad, slow, and boring. Madeleine L'Engle's fantasy works, especially the "Time Quintet," are a hundred times better than this dreck.
Departing from my formulaic L'Engle review here to say this book is one of my all-time favorites. There's so much going on, and so much grave and serious beauty, that if there are clunky bits, I never saw them.I also never noticed, until this read, that L'Engle was a fan of Saint-Exupéry's flying bo...
Dolphins! Yay!Reading this from an adult perspective was interesting. I read all the Time Quartet books as a kid, but I never picked up the Austin books because after the Time books, the concept of realistic fiction just seemed boring. But I read this one after reading Lizzie Skurnick's essay about ...
This was a great story for younger audiences. It's more of a coming of age story than anything else. I think the weird love square was a bit odd and unrealistic, but he inclusion of the dolphins somewhat made up for it.
When I was a teenager, I adored this book-- as I got older, I have certain reservations about it, but I still love it.
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