I love L’Engle!
September 20th 2007 by cybertoad in commentary, library
My favorite childhood author, Madeleine L’Engle, passed away earlier this month. I read her Time Quartet when I was in late elementary/early middle school and devoured several more of her books that were not in the series. I had Kenny buy me the series again a couple of years but they had been collecting dust on my shelf. When I heard of her passing I decided to pull them out and re-read them.
Let me back up – I was trying to finish a 2-part novella by J.D. Salinger but that was going nowhere. I read the first novella quickly but could not finish the second one. It was so, so, I don’t know… unentertaining and intellectually loaded in that bad, overdone way. I tried but after several months of wasting my time I waived the white flag and put it away. Now I am happily engrossed in A Wrinkle in Time and look forward to re-living some good childhood memories!
Do you have a favorite childhood book or author? By the way, it should come to no surprise that my favorite book in high school was Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The similarities are not lost on me…
September 21st, 2007 at 6:10 am
Wow, I didn’t know she passed away. I must have missed that. That’s a great idea to pull it back out and read it. It has been AGES.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 am
oh, I didn’t know she had passed on either. I adore those books – we have some very old copies at the library I work at and last year I checked them out and re-read them. they are STILL great stories all these years later…