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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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I am well past the typical age-range for readers of A Wrinkle in Time, but the new season of Stranger Things made me realize that I’d never read it and I decided to correct that oversight. Meg Murry is a bright young girl who struggles in school because she’s impatient and quick to anger. She’s always getting in trouble defending his eccentric little brother, Charles Wallace, or reacting poorly to people asking her about her missing father. Mr. Murry is a scientist working for the […]

Revisiting an Old Favorite

Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle

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Vicky Austen is stuck on an iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean.  How a sixteen year old from New England ended up there unfolds as Vicky relates events.  Having spent a year in New York City, Vicky and her family returned to their home town, and Vicky feels out of place.  Her older brother John is off at college, and her younger siblings don’t seem to have any trouble fitting back into their old lives.  She has two years before she’s off to college, but until […]

Two birds and a star

A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L'Engle and the Making of a Wrinkle in Time by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams

Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross (Friendship Books for Kids, Kids Book about Fear) by Samantha Haas

The Penguin of Ilha Grande: From Animal Rescue to Extraordinary Friendship by Shannon Earle.

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I enjoy a good picture book round up. I wanted to include a theme, it could have been, I read all these books online, but decided two birds and a star, was in my (not so) humble opinion, a great theme. Why am I so not-humble? Well, one should stand up for what they believe, be strong in their opinions Like Madeleine L’Engle was. And we see that in A Book, Too, Can Be a Star: The Story of Madeleine L’Engle and the Making of […]

My Favorite Childhood Book

Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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As a Christmas present, my kids (instigated by Bothari43) got me a subscription to Storyworth. They send you a writing prompt every week and this week was Your Favorite Book as a Child. At the end of the year, they publish your answers in your memoir. Cool. This week’s question was a hard one because I’m torn between the original Oz books (all 14 written by L. Frank Baum!) which transported me away from the wet rainforest of western Washington into strange and mind-expanding places. […]

A classic

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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The first time I heard of this book was fifth grade. It was one of the choices for our book reports. I think I didn’t read it because it was about a girl. Boy, was I dumb. I saw the movie when it came out but I didn’t read it for myself until this year. Three things struck me about it. First, was that the author did not pull punches with her vocabulary. I read later that she did not consider it to be “just […]

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 […]



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