I want to start a meme.

[heidi]

When you see this on your flist, post a quotation from a book by Madeleine L'Engle in your LJ/blog/journal/etc.

"Love. That was what she had that IT did not have."

My eldest read A Wrinkle in Time this summer, under some pressure from me and Aaron - and he loved it. He loved Calvin the most, he said, and we read the scientific explanations in the introduction. As Lisa Soanne wrote:

A Wrinkle in Time was written before any human had walked on the moon or sent rovers to Mars. It was a time before cell phones and personal computers, before digital cameras, CDs, and DVDs, before the fiction of Star Trek, Star Wars, and The Matrix, and before the realities of the space shuttle, the Mir space station, and the International Space Station. Science has changed dramatically as generations of children and adults have read the book since it was first published in 1962. Those scientific advances make Madeleine L’Engle’s story even more compelling.

The introduction is here at Amazon's website, and reading it only makes the science behind the wonderful story in A Wrinkle in Time more exciting and more tremendous. The story is about people - wonderful, amazing, loving people who have a power that evil knows not, to paraphrase from a book that came out this summer. And I hope that for decades, parents - and eventually grandparents - who grew up on A Wrinkle in Time will share that power with their children as they introduce them to this wonderful world of fantasy.

Thank you so much, Madeline who was made of stardust, for your stories, and for the moments I will have with my kids as they discover your worlds and your words.

Comments

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

"I said, there IS -uff!- such a thing -uff!- as a tesseract."

And I've been waiting 28 years for it to kick in, too...

[weatherguy2000.livejournal.com]

A Wrinkle in Time

This is the first book I remember reading in which I was totally immersed in the story.

[horridporrid.livejournal.com]

A whole bucket of "I totally, totally, agree." A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books ever, and I'm sure it'll be around for a long, long time.