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And now…my LEAST favorite L’Engle

August 27, 2016 by bonnie 1 Comment

You guys. Reading this book was a chore, and that’s a crime, because Madeleine L’Engle is such a fantastic writer. I’ve only read this once before, and I remember really disliking it before, but because I’m a completionist, blah blah blah, I had to read the whole sequence. So I read it. And here we go.

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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My favorite L’Engle book.

August 27, 2016 by bonnie 1 Comment

When we read The Doomsday Book for Book Club, I was excited about the time travel aspect, though disappointed in the execution and plotting of it. So I was delighted to revisit my favorite in the L’Engle series, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which features a move through time in order to save the universe from nuclear warfare (and yes, this book is a little dated by that feature, but it doesn’t matter in the end). You can find my full review here. There *might* be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:98 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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Kything all angels

August 27, 2016 by bonnie Leave a Comment

Because I borrowed a ton of L’Engle books from the library, I had to return to my shelves to the Time books, which I already owned, in order to read through the three sequences involving the Murrys, the O’Keefes, and the Austins. I’ve only read through the Time (Murry) sequence once, and only Meet the Austins and A Ring of Endless Light (just barely behind Swiftly Tilting Planet and A Wrinkle in Time as favorite L’Engle books) from the Austin saga. I’ve never read the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:97 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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Meg Murry is all of us.

August 27, 2016 by bonnie 2 Comments

I’m embarking on a Madeleine L’Engle re-read. Glorious, I know. I’ve read through the Time Quintet and A Ring of Endless Light, but I’ve not read her sequence involving the Murrys, O’Keefes, and Austins, so I’m looking forward to all the books. Because I’m a completionist, I’m starting from the beginning. Part of my library stack-beast is comprised of L’Engle series books that I don’t already own, so I thought starting from the beginning would be best. Oh, and what a beginning it is.

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle

bonnie's CBR8 Review No:96 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bonnie, Madeleine L'Engle ·
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Homage to Madeleine L’Engle

August 23, 2016 by ElCicco 3 Comments

The new school year has just bgun for my two middle schoolers, and this novel by Rebecca Stead is just the sort of thing you would want to put into the hands of kids that age. Stead’s 2010 Newberry winner is an homage to Madeleine L’Engle and her classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. As in that novel, our heroine, 12-year-old Miranda, finds herself grappling with the concept of time travel, but unlike Meg Murry, she will not be the traveller. Earthbound Miranda has to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen, Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me, YA

ElCicco's CBR8 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen, Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me, YA ·
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Another Step on my Literary Walk of Shame

July 2, 2016 by ElCicco 4 Comments

My literary walk of shame, i.e., the list of books I should have read a long time ago, seems to involve a lot of youth lit. I’ve never read any Nancy Drew books despite the fact that we had a stack of them in the closet when I was a kid. I didn’t read Little Women until I was 40. I just read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn last month. And now, at long last, I have read Madeleine L’Engle’s classic time travel novel A […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Wrinkle in Time, CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen

ElCicco's CBR8 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Wrinkle in Time, CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen ·
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