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Library of America Young Readers (2018), Edition: Annotated, 875 pages
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This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin brothers, are accidentally transported back to the time of Noah's ark --
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LibraryThing member maryh10000
When I read that Meg had brown hair, braces and glasses, I was hooked. The first science fiction story I ever read was Wrinkle in Time.
LibraryThing member TRHummer
First read these when I was a boy; then read them to my first daughter (now 30) and about a year ago to my second (now 7). These are very interesting to bright kids: imagination-stretching. From my perspective as an adult, I find it a little disconcerting how many intelligent writers who work in
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this vein fall back so readily on fundamentally Christian paradigms, as though they can't quite operate without that ready-made cultural scaffolding. Still, this sequence is quite brilliant in its way. Show Less
LibraryThing member Hamsterfan
This series is amazing! Thought provoking enough for adults, but simplistic enough (mostly) in its language for a much younger reader. L'Engle has been one of my favorite authors since childhood and remains so today.
LibraryThing member justine
this is one of my favorite sci fi series.
LibraryThing member AndreaByrnes
Follows the story of the Murry/O'Keefe family. Time travel, and space travel. Family bonds.
LibraryThing member AliceaP
For many years, when people would ask me about my favorite book I would promptly say that it was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Recently, I started to wonder if my love for the novel had stood the test of time so I picked up the 4 book series entitled the Time Quartet (I have the box set
The main character in the first book is Meg, eldest sister of the Murry clan, and we see everything from her point of view. A large portion of why I loved this book was that Meg wasn't a typical girl of her age and I strongly identified with her (and I had a crush on Calvin). A Wrinkle in Time focuses on Meg's relationship with herself, her family, and her peers (especially Calvin). She sees herself as 'other' except when she's with Charles Wallace or her mother (or Calvin...yes, I'm enjoying myself). It doesn't help that their father has been missing for so long that the postman in town has started asking impertinent questions. (The whole town is gossiping or so it seems.) While Meg plays a large role in A Wind in the Door, the main part of the plot is written with Charles Wallace (youngest Murry son) as the main character. Both books are full of adventure and self-discovery. Both Murry children come into their own and use their unique strengths to help them accomplish their goals. The stakes are always set extremely high and the pace is alternately rushed no-holds-barred action and so lackadaisical as to seem stagnant. (Note: If you don't enjoy books with a lot of descriptions and copious amounts of symbolism then I'm afraid this isn't the series for you.) By A Swiftly Tilting Planet, I felt almost overwhelmed by the underlying religious messages and the conclusion, Many Waters, which focuses on the twins, Sandy and Dennis, was so far-fetched as to be ridiculous. (Books 3 and 4 are so convoluted that I don't feel like I can talk about them in detail other than to say they are out there.) Part of me wishes that I had stopped reading at A Wrinkle in Time (as I had done for so many years) so as to not shatter the illusion of what this series meant to me but part of the reason I started this blog was to explore new books and to give as honest a review as possible. The hope is that even if I don't enjoy a book it might interest someone else. With that being said, A Wrinkle in Time remains in my top 50 all-time faves but the others...not so much. 9/10 for book 1 and a 3/10 for the series overall.
A/N: I just did a little Google search and discovered that although I have the box set which is called the Time Quartet there was actually a fifth book written called An Acceptable Time and which called for a new set to be created, the Time Quintet. I feel like I've been hoodwinked! Does this mean I need to find a copy of this book to complete the experience?! (Spoiler alert: I am probably not going to do this.)
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that I got years ago) from my shelf and dove in headfirst. Reading the first book in the series, A Wrinkle in Time, completely transported me back to middle school when I first discovered the delightful writing of L'Engle. The book was just as fantastic as I remembered but with the passing of time I see more clearly the overt references to Christianity which were lost on me as a child. (She's a bit like C.S. Lewis in the way that she writes for children about Christianity but instead of fantasy devices she uses science fiction and fantasy.) This literary device would increase as the series continued and in a lot of ways it took away some of the enjoyment of the books for me. One of the bonuses of L'Engle's writing is that it is never 'dumbed down' for her child audience. She uses technical terminology and speaks of scientific endeavors as if the reader should already be aware of them. When I first read that book, this was a foreign concept to me as I didn't think I was any good at the sciences when I was in school. (Now look at how many scientific books I've read and reviewed!)The main character in the first book is Meg, eldest sister of the Murry clan, and we see everything from her point of view. A large portion of why I loved this book was that Meg wasn't a typical girl of her age and I strongly identified with her (and I had a crush on Calvin). A Wrinkle in Time focuses on Meg's relationship with herself, her family, and her peers (especially Calvin). She sees herself as 'other' except when she's with Charles Wallace or her mother (or Calvin...yes, I'm enjoying myself). It doesn't help that their father has been missing for so long that the postman in town has started asking impertinent questions. (The whole town is gossiping or so it seems.) While Meg plays a large role in A Wind in the Door, the main part of the plot is written with Charles Wallace (youngest Murry son) as the main character. Both books are full of adventure and self-discovery. Both Murry children come into their own and use their unique strengths to help them accomplish their goals. The stakes are always set extremely high and the pace is alternately rushed no-holds-barred action and so lackadaisical as to seem stagnant. (Note: If you don't enjoy books with a lot of descriptions and copious amounts of symbolism then I'm afraid this isn't the series for you.) By A Swiftly Tilting Planet, I felt almost overwhelmed by the underlying religious messages and the conclusion, Many Waters, which focuses on the twins, Sandy and Dennis, was so far-fetched as to be ridiculous. (Books 3 and 4 are so convoluted that I don't feel like I can talk about them in detail other than to say they are out there.) Part of me wishes that I had stopped reading at A Wrinkle in Time (as I had done for so many years) so as to not shatter the illusion of what this series meant to me but part of the reason I started this blog was to explore new books and to give as honest a review as possible. The hope is that even if I don't enjoy a book it might interest someone else. With that being said, A Wrinkle in Time remains in my top 50 all-time faves but the others...not so much. 9/10 for book 1 and a 3/10 for the series overall.
A/N: I just did a little Google search and discovered that although I have the box set which is called the Time Quartet there was actually a fifth book written called An Acceptable Time and which called for a new set to be created, the Time Quintet. I feel like I've been hoodwinked! Does this mean I need to find a copy of this book to complete the experience?! (Spoiler alert: I am probably not going to do this.)
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LibraryThing member hobbitprincess
A friend gave me the set of these books, and I finally got around to reading the first one, for the second time. The children in the Murray family encounter a strange set of ladies who eventually lead them to another world through a sort of time travel where they eventually rescue their father.
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There are many predictable YA themes such as the love of family, courage, new experiences, etc. This first book won the Newbery Medal and is considered classic children's literature. Show Less
LibraryThing member Yggie
I was fully prepared to love this book, but in the end, I just liked it. The heavy handed religious stuff made me uncomfortable, and the teleporting left and right seemed rather too easy to me.
I did like that Meg’s flaws are also her strength, and I loved that she’s a girl who excels in math in
Considering that it’s almost 60 years old, this book is brilliant and new and ahead of it’s time. That said, I live and read in the here and now, and in the here and now I liked it, but didn’t love it.
I did like that Meg’s flaws are also her strength, and I loved that she’s a girl who excels in math in
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this book from 1963. Most stuff I read from that time has a firm ‘girls belong at home’ moral going, even if in the end her brain didn’t make that much of a difference for the plot.Considering that it’s almost 60 years old, this book is brilliant and new and ahead of it’s time. That said, I live and read in the here and now, and in the here and now I liked it, but didn’t love it.
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1962 (A Wrinkle In Time)
1973 (A Wind In The Door)
1978 (A Swiftly Tilting Planet)
1986 (Many Waters)
Physical description
875 p.; 8.1 inches
ISBN
1598535781 / 9781598535785