by Madeleine L'Engle
This is one of those books I wished would never end! I loved it as a child and I love it still.
This book is packed to the gills with what some of L'Engle's Goodreads fans are calling scorflam, which is short for "that stuff L'Engle does that would be grounds for hurling the book across the room in the hands of any other author but since it's L'Engle, one rises above the impulse." I got close,...
I just had a flashback to my sophomore year in high school, when my attempt to draw Proginoskes on the chalkboard was interpreted rather poorly by the Driver's Ed teacher as something gynecological in nature. Small wonder I'd forgotten that.I don't think that one can judge this particular book on an...
I don't know that I understood how completely L'Engle's Christianity infused this book before. Or perhaps it's more her theism, rather than any particular religion. It's indelibly woven into the plot, even. It's fascinating to me, when I revisit childhood favorites, how totally oblivious I was to re...
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