Madeline L'Engle
I don't usually get too teary over famous people dying because I don't really know them as people and I guess I'm just callous and unfeeling.
But my heart dropped when I saw just now that that Madeline L'Engle has died. A Wrinkle in Time and the other books in that collection are among my most cherished childhood reading memories.
The book used concepts that Ms. L'Engle said she had plucked from Einstein's theory of relativity and Planck's quantum theory, almost flaunting her frequent assertion that children's literature is literature too difficult for adults to understand. She also characterized the book as her refutation of ideas of German theologians.
Ms. L'Engle is one of those writers that makes me fantasize, once in a while, about writing books for children. Maybe someday I will.
Comments
Very sad. I love those books too.
I mailed A Wrinkle in Time to Wil. It's one of those books I think imaginative and thoughtful people need to read.
Posted by: jane | 12:59PM, 09.08.07
Loved the Wrinkle.
Posted by: Wil | 7:49AM, 09.09.07
You might like the next two in the series as well.
Posted by: jane | 11:55AM, 09.09.07
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Posted by: Lynda | 12:02PM, 09.10.07
I loved that book as well... I also just picked up the TV movie that Hallmark made of the book, and enjoyed it totally... Sad sad day..
Posted by: Tracy | 4:15PM, 09.11.07
I didn't know there was a movie made out of it... is it any good?
I just started re-reading this book the other day after hearing this news. So good.
Posted by: andrea | 9:00PM, 09.11.07
Since my copy of Wrinkle is elsewhere, I started reading the next two books and am really enjoying them.
Posted by: jane | 9:04AM, 09.12.07
Yes, Hallmark produced it, and I really enjoyed it. When Brad is feeling better, the two of you will have to come over and watch it with us :)
http://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Katie-Stuart/dp/B0002VEX64/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-1605071-0408114?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1189648487&sr=8-2
Posted by: Tracy | 8:57PM, 09.12.07
Whoops... I guess I meant Disney... but could have sworn that I saw hallmark was involved when I watched it on TV.
Posted by: Tracy | 8:59PM, 09.12.07
Tracy, we will definitely have to do that. Besides, movie-watching is one of the few things Brad can do in the state he's in.
Posted by: andrea | 9:20PM, 09.12.07