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Wild nights are my glory

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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This was a reread – I first read A Wrinkle in Time as a girl, and read it again as an adult four years ago. I decided to reread A Wrinkle in Time again because I am also going to reread the remainder of the Murry/O’Keefe series and I am one of those people who needs to begin at the beginning. Even after all these years, I remain in awe of Madeleine L’Engle’s extraordinary humanity. She was a remarkable woman, and I’m not sure that we deserved her. I read the book as a child of the 1970’s – probably […]

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1/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

You can’t go home again

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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I still remember watching E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in the theater as a kid. The nearest movie theater was an hour’s drive from our little town in the Deep Midwest, so we didn’t get to go more than a few times a year. I’d been begging my parents to take us to see E.T. for weeks when they finally surprised me for my 8th birthday. I was enchanted from the start, so wrapped up in the story by the time Eliot said goodbye to E.T. that I cried all the way home. When they re-released the movie in theaters 20 years […]

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5/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Becoming Madeleine

Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy

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Two of Madeleine L’Engle’s grandchildren have taken the stories of their grandmother, her journal entries, some never-before-seen photographs, letters and memories and made a biography of L’Engle’s life. Focusing on her early years, the authors paint a picture of how the woman who is known as a great writer got there. From a life of emotional ups and downs, boarding schools, war, the theater, writing, rejections, death, love and friendships, L’Engle comes to life. Maybe it is fitting Farrar Straus is publishing this biography, as it was them that finally brought Wrinkle in Time to publication. But it was a […]

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5/11/2018 's CBR10 Review No:126 |

Wonderfully Creative

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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I really enjoyed this book. Coming in at under 150 pages, it’s a quick read, which is good because I just wanted to keep going, especially once the characters were on their journey to Camazotz. I recalled reading this novel twice before, once in elementary school when I didn’t really “get” it, and I don’t recall how I viewed it upon my second reading, but this time I got it (although I’m still not sure just how much tesseracts make sense to me as used in this novel) and appreciated it. Many of you probably know the plot by now, […]

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3/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

In Which Our Intrepid Reader Takes a Trip Down Memory Lane

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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“It was a dark and stormy night.”  The opening of this book imprinted itself on my ten-year-old brain in ways I didn’t fully realize until I returned to it over four decades later. I first read A Wrinkle in Time in 1975 when my grandmother, a children’s librarian, gave me a copy for my birthday.  It wasn’t just any copy; it was a signed copy that my grandmother had purchased in 1963 when she attended the Newberry-Caldecott award dinner in Chicago—almost two years before my parents would meet in a crowded bar in Grinnell, Iowa.  On faith that she would […]

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3/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Liked it better the first time I read it

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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3.5 stars I read this book for the first time back in October 2012. My review from back then can be found here. Back then, I rated the book 4 stars and from my write-up, I really appeared to enjoy it. The first Cannonball Read Book Club of the year was a discussion of this book, since the star-studded movie version, directed by Ava DuVernay will be in cinemas any day now. From the trailers and promotional material, the movie looks like it’s going to be visually stunning, and DuVernay has also chosen to make Meg bi-racial, played by newcomer Storm Reid, with […]

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3/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

Book Club Discussion Post: A Wrinkle in Time

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Here we go, time to discuss A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle!  For many of you, this was a reread of a childhood book. For others, it was your first time delving into L’Engle’s worlds; but we’ve all heard the title over the years, and it’s been a bastion of Science Fiction since the sixties. Science fiction has often been used as a way to explore “otherness” as a theme. Alien beings and distant worlds offer us a way to think about different cultures we are aware of, but don’t feel familiar or comfortable with. L’Engle explicitly uses this […]

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2/23/2018

A *shrug* and a *yawn*

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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So I first read A Wrinkle in Time around 20 years ago. That’s my best guess. I remembered nothing about it, except that I did not like it at all, on a fairly strong level. So when I heard they were making a new movie I shrugged, but then it was directed by Ava DuVernay (yes), staring a diverse cast (YES), and then the trailer dropped. All in. Alllllll in. And it’s our bookclub book today! Reread commencing. I’m going to skip the plot synopsis on this one, as it’s pretty darn well known, and go into why, yet again, […]

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2/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:8 |


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