"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
^Madeleine L'Engle
+ I just heard that Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes is going to be made into a movie, as is Madeleine L’Engle’s Camilla. I wonder if this is going to be a new trend: classic slice-of-life YA books getting turned into movies. I mean: the movie studios are still snatching up the rights to Paranormal Romance novels, aren’t they? And I think ( Read more... )
Pretty sure that’s An Acceptable Time! Which reminds me; I haven’t read that one. For some reason, the other O’ Keefe books never quite made a mark on me. I think it’s because I couldn’t reconcile the teenage Meg and Calvin (and I think I remember Sandy being in one) with their grown-up selves.
I remember always feeling like something was missing when I read Wrinkle in Time, like, "is that all? tell me more!" And I used to think Wind in the Door was bizarre when read on its own. Now I really think they’re two halves of each other and make each other better.
MANY WATERS IS SO GOOD. I lent it to so many of my friends when I first read it. That’s pretty awesome, your mom reading it! I think mine would have mildly disapproved (back when I was thirteen) because of more mature stuff in the story, haha. What did she think of it?
Can’t you just imagine the desert with the vineyards and the oasis paths and that distant volcano? And the dawn song and the seraphim/nephilim circle? So, so haunting. Especially when they start getting visions of the flood. "El speaks of many waters," brrrr.
Now you're making me want to go hunt down the other books L'Engle wrote and read them ALL.
That is an excellent plan. :D I never intended to go on a reading binge, but once I got a hold of the unread ones, I couldn’t stop.
And drat that ever-lengthening to-be-read list. ;)
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My mom actually thought Many Waters was really interesting and quite enjoyed it. I remember having a good conversation about it with her afterwards, which was interesting because we don't normally read the same books at all.
And oh yes, the ever-growing reading list. I was so proud of buying a bunch of the books I had on it with Christmas gift-cards and such about a month ago, and have only gotten through one so far. Sigh. One day I shall get through it. ONE DAY.
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The Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in the Waters, and A House Like A Lotus have some of the Murrys appearing as grown-ups. There aren’t any time travel elements to them, though. They’re generally called the “O’Keefe books” but Starfish stars Adam from the Austin books, and Dragons has another main character, Simon. The O’Keefes appear as secondary characters in those two. And from what I remember of the third one, it’s Polly in a coming-of-age story in Greece.
Heh, my mom’s usual reply to any book we recommend is, “I’m just so busy! Is there a movie?” Which is how she once spent a week watching the LOTR trilogy in hour-long chunks.
I just saw that Has Been Read/Will Be Read pic you reblogged on Tumblr! Boy do we ever need that in our lives!
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