Was it Madeline L'Engle (A Wrinkle In Time, Troubling a Star, A Ring of Endless Light)? She was the one who got the most mentions on my flist, but I know there's been sort of a rash of fantasy author deaths lately so it could have easily been someone else.
I think that is who it was. For some reason I was certain it was a guy, but I'm pretty sure the excerpt was from A Wrinkle in Time, so I guess I got her confused with someone else in my head. Thanks, thanks!
You're welcome! I love L'Engle's books; I've pretty much been reading them almost since I could read (even back when I didn't understand them). My favorite by her is A Ring of Endless Light, but pretty much all of her books are great. And what's really cool is how all of her books take place in the same universe and basic timeline: you never see the protagonists of the books meet each other, but the side characters all move back and forth throughout all of the stories. Like the same boy character dates two entirely different book protagonists from two entirely different storylines.
Incidentally, that character - named Zachary - was played by Jared Padalecki in a Disney channel made-for-TV version of A Ring of Endless Light. Though I didn't actually watch it, because I love the book to pieces and the movie synopsis sounded like it had nothing in common save the title and the character names...but I was always just a tiny bit tempted to see how awful it was, because I cannot for the life of me imagine Jared Padalecki as a sexy, cynical
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...You don't know me, but I'm hijacking this because A Ring of Endless Light is one of my favorite things EVER. Vicky! And Adam! And ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
...But speaking of that TV movie -- didn't Mischa Barton play Vicky? I never saw it myself, but that disturbs me completely.
Yes! Vicky! Adam!! DOPLHINS!!! I love that book so much. I'll pick it up when I'm sad, and it feels like the literary equivalent of sunshine.
Oh man, I'd somehow actually managed to forget about that entirely. And I was better off! Why did I have to remember what was possibly the most ill-advised casting choice in the history of the world?
I kept hoping Madeleine L'Engle would write another sequel (I didn't like Troubling a Star that much), but then I realized how old she was getting.
It's a comfort book for me, too, but it always makes me cry a little. (At the end, especially.) It's just so... well, I already used the word, but whatever comforting.
I would have died of joy for one more Vicky book, or even Vicky and Adam popping up randomly in someone else's story, the way grown-up Meg and Calvin do. I like Troubling a Star okay, but it felt a bit like it could have been a story about anyone at all, somehow. Having a Vicky book without the rest of the Austins felt weird, and there wasn't anywhere near enough Adam to make up for it. Plus, A Ring of Endless Light was just so good. Dolphins >>> penguins.
...okay, I just kind of stalked your userinfo, and now I have to ask, do you mind if I friend you? You have Hanadan and Utena listed as interests! That is a sign of some seriously complex coolness, there!
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Incidentally, that character - named Zachary - was played by Jared Padalecki in a Disney channel made-for-TV version of A Ring of Endless Light. Though I didn't actually watch it, because I love the book to pieces and the movie synopsis sounded like it had nothing in common save the title and the character names...but I was always just a tiny bit tempted to see how awful it was, because I cannot for the life of me imagine Jared Padalecki as a sexy, cynical ( ... )
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...But speaking of that TV movie -- didn't Mischa Barton play Vicky? I never saw it myself, but that disturbs me completely.
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Oh man, I'd somehow actually managed to forget about that entirely. And I was better off! Why did I have to remember what was possibly the most ill-advised casting choice in the history of the world?
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It's a comfort book for me, too, but it always makes me cry a little. (At the end, especially.) It's just so... well, I already used the word, but whatever comforting.
(Plus, VICKY AND ADAM!!!)
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But I have so few people who love Hanadan. (I haven't seen the new drama, btw, just the anime and some of the manga.)
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And my library has a copy available, so, DONE AND DONE.
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