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what I felt I was seeing as I read this, a blank slate, a void, an empty room.


A Wrinkle in Time is a very nice tale, but I just wish L'Engle spent more time developing the settings.
The decently rounded characters seemed to be floating in spartan landscapes like portraits hung in limbo,

Lackluster description is one thing, but perhaps more than anything, I think my tepidstar, hohum reaction to A Wrinkle in Time is due to my reading it as a middleaged curmudgeon.
It's made for kids and I haven't been one of them in a while,

My wife loved this book as a child and kept hinting I should read it, hinting so much that the hints became ultimatums.
Could've sworn I heard her in my head shouting, "Read this or you do not love me!" So I read it and well.
. . meh. I missed the ageappropriate boat on that one, I guess, But hey, at least I was smart enough not to give her my scathing review yes, this would've been seen as a scathing review in her eyes.
I just said, "It was nice," and that's the story of how I managed to stay married,

The End I started reading "A Wrinkle In Time" when I wasor, I say started because I never finished it, I can't remember exactly why, but I think it kind of scared the crap out of me, Now,oryears later, I've read it again this time the whole thing and there's really nothing scary at all about it.
It's possible that, as a kid, I was somehow relating this book to the terribly scary Disney movie "Something Wicked This Way Comes".
Again, I don't know why,

Whatever the reason for my fears, the book is not spectacular, Maybe I can't see it now being older and not reading through the eyes of a child, but I can't understand how it won the John Newberry Medal.
The witches were plastic and seemed to serve little purpose the bad guy, a concept embodied in a shadow, had no motivation if you want to read about true darkness for the sake of darkness/nothing for the sake of nothing, pick up Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story" and the father, who seems to have no backbone and no sense of decency when it comes to saving his son.
It has been said that the father character is an excellent tool in showing children that parents do not always have the answers, that they are, in fact, fallible and God forbid imperfect.
But it's so much more than that, He comes across as weak, helpless, foolish, and even heartless at times, If you want to write a story where a child finds out that his/her parents aren't perfect, you don't have to make the parental figure a cold, bumbling idiot.
Unless that's what you're going for, And I certainly don't think that L'Engle was, But all that aside, why would you even want to tell that story Part of the beauty of being a child is you get to hold onto the illusion that mom and dad are Superman.
Why ruin that Granted, some kids live in terrible families, but there are better ways to write about those scenarios.
This is not it.

I wanted to give this bookbut decided that, because of my jaded, critical age I cannot judge too harshly.
Plus, I did like the savant character of Charles Wallace, He was cute. As was the love that Meg and him shared, Calvin, on the other hand, was a complete throwaway character,

If I had kids, would I push this book on them No, If they picked it off my bookshelf and started reading it, I wouldn't stop them, But I'm not about to recommend it to anyone young or old, Unless it's too ask that person to help me understand what the big deal is, It was a dark and stormy night,

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventureone that will threaten their lives and our universe.


Winner of theNewbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.
An evil darkness consuming the universe, and three little children determined to stop it,

In a little cozy home, in the midst of a lovely gardened area, lives the Murry family.
A scientist mother, a distant father on a secret mission, two overprotective twins, the little and enigmatic Charles Wallace, and the ever troublesome Meg.


A storm presages the dangers to come, The Darkness, the evil Black Thing threatens to swallow the Earth and everyone in it, among other worlds and universes already corrupted by its malevolent presence.
Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin, a fellow schoolmate, embark on a desperate mission through several worlds to try to find their lost father, and, maybe, just maybe, save a small part of the universe.


An enjoyable read, simple, endearing, and weird! Not exactly recommendable, but good enough to hold interest, The first of five moderately short books,


PERSONAL NOTE:
p Fantasy Not Recommendable


Una malévola oscuridad que consume universos, y tres pequeñs niños determinados a detenerla.


En una pequeña y acogedora casa, en el medio de una area hermsamente cultivada, vive la familia Murry.
Una madre científica, un padre distante en una misión secreta, dos mellizos sobreprotectores, el pequeño y enigmático Charles Wallace, y la siempre problemática Meg.


Una tormenta es el presagio de peligros por venir, La Oscuridad, la Maldad Negra, amenaza con tragarse la Tierra y a todos en ella, entre otros mundos y universos ya corrompidos por su malévola presencia.
Meg, Charles Wallace y Calvin, un compañero de la escuela, se embarcan en una misión desesperada a través de diversos mundos para tratar de encontrar a su padre perdido y, tal vez, sólo tal vez, salvar una pequeña parte del universo.


Una lectura pasable, simple, tierna, y extraña! No exactamente recomendable, pero lo suficientemente buena como para mantener el interés.
El primero de cinco libros medianamente cortos,


NOTA PERSONAL:
p Fantasía No Recomendable

,/Soof my goodreads friends have read A Wrinkle in Time, but I never picked up the book until these past few weeks.
Im not sure how this novel and I slipped past each other in my youth, Im guessing that since the main character was a girl I wasnt that interested in middle school and when I grew older the science fiction elements didnt appear strong enough to snag my interest.
Oh well. Last weekend I bought A Wrinkle in Time at a Borders near the Seattle airport, I wanted the novel to get me through the grueling twelve hour journey whoo, flight delays and predawn connecting flights! home, and I thank Ms.
LEngle for the perfect story for early hour nearhallucinatory reading in the middle of the Minneapolis International promenade,

What makes this book so good First off, A Wrinkle in Time works under the assumption that kids are smart enough either to grasp the nuances of some fairly deep physics or, if they dont get every detail, theyll flow with the storyline anyway.
One woman I know said, “I didnt understand all the science when I was a kid but I still loved it.
” That makes sense to me, Hell, I didnt understand all the science now, and Im supposedly a grownup, LEngle doesnt just say, “And then they traveled time, ” She tries to explain how time travel might work, I wonder if so many kids, especially girls, liked this novel because they felt LEngle respected them as intelligent readers.


Second, A Wrinkle in Time frames Megs personality as multifaceted and more complex than just about any Ive encountered in YA literature.
In fact, reading this novel I couldnt help but consider her a template on which some more modern comingofage characters think Harry Potter were modeled.
Shes brave but doubts her own strength in an tangible, authentic manner, And her relationship with Calvin is sweet without getting all High School Musical,

Third, the evil in this novel is damn scary and the darkness pure and substantial, Were talking elemental, unadulterated evil that manifests itself in the fear and conformity of those who break down in its presence.
And the characters encounters with this evil feel real, The climatic scenes are perhaps slightly too swift but the nuances of the battle fit well with a remarkably philosophical and Christian, but in a positive way resolution

of good and evils conflict.


If my friends reviews are any indication a lot of smart girls who turned into strong, intelligent women grew up under the spell of A Wrinkle in Time.
I feel like I know them a little better after reading this novel, and I can see them all, around age ten, turning the books pages in their rooms, feeling their own strength and potential.
And thats damn cool, really, dont you think, a whole generation of girls reading A Wrinkle in Time Maybe little girls across America are googling “tesseract” as we speak


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