Cool. :) My sweetie recently bought the whole boxed set of the Wrinkle in Time series. We've been spending evenings together reading through them aloud. We're in the middle of A Wind in the Door. I've never read the four sequels until now. My school librarian when I was in third grade pressed AWIT into my hands, knowing I would dig it. It made such an impression on me, I looked around and found a couple more L'Engle books, but didn't find any of the magick that AWIT was made of.
All I remember from those other books was a) showering salt from swimming in the ocean off your body, and b) sassing at the piano teacher, Mr. The-o-to-ko-pou-los!*
*Which is Greek for 'son of the Mother of God'. Like in the Qur’an Jesus is named "Jesus the son of Mary." The Arabic language made an exception from their patrilineal system by giving Jesus a matronymic name.
Anyway, back to the series. I kept looking for more magick from L'Engle, but by the time the first sequel AWitD was published, I had stopped looking. I never heard about it until one day
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Tolkien described Éowyn & Faramir's wedding in courtly, downright medieval language. But after that he said nothing more about their marriage. Probably because Faramir knew that his wife could kick his ass. Even though he had been a special forces commander, and so was presumably trained in martial arts. But she had already made her name as the baddest of badasses on the side of good against evil.
I must have read A Wind in the Door a dozen times, too. The only book I absolutely despised in the AWIT series was A Swiftly Titling Planet, because it was so boring compared to the first two books.
But you're right. None of her books compare to the magic that exists in the pages of AWIT.
I read another book by her about some girl who time travelled to some tribal world, but I don't remember much about it. It didn't impact me as much as AWIT.
The best book I've read from her aside from the AWIT series was A Ring of Endless Light, which was about a girl who possessed telepathic powers to communicate through the dolphins, and her grand father had leukemia or something. The controversial topic of Black Holes and the like was pretty reminiscent throughtout the book as well.
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Haha, A Wrinkle in Time was my favorite too, growing up.
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All I remember from those other books was a) showering salt from swimming in the ocean off your body, and b) sassing at the piano teacher, Mr. The-o-to-ko-pou-los!*
*Which is Greek for 'son of the Mother of God'. Like in the Qur’an Jesus is named "Jesus the son of Mary." The Arabic language made an exception from their patrilineal system by giving Jesus a matronymic name.
Anyway, back to the series. I kept looking for more magick from L'Engle, but by the time the first sequel AWitD was published, I had stopped looking. I never heard about it until one day ( ... )
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I must have read A Wind in the Door a dozen times, too. The only book I absolutely despised in the AWIT series was A Swiftly Titling Planet, because it was so boring compared to the first two books.
But you're right. None of her books compare to the magic that exists in the pages of AWIT.
I read another book by her about some girl who time travelled to some tribal world, but I don't remember much about it. It didn't impact me as much as AWIT.
The best book I've read from her aside from the AWIT series was A Ring of Endless Light, which was about a girl who possessed telepathic powers to communicate through the dolphins, and her grand father had leukemia or something. The controversial topic of Black Holes and the like was pretty reminiscent throughtout the book as well.
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