Oh, I'm so excited about the Year of the Tesseract! (Okay, I'm a little behind on my blog reading so I'm late to the party. But this is my kind of party!)
My comment is just going to be "me too, me too, me too"! Book that changed my life, yup. Book meaningful 'cause I read it when I was young and impressionable (and then kept re-reading as I was getting older and being impressed), yup. Totally identified with Meg even though we're totally different, yup.
And one comment about the science: I was in high school biology class when we were learning about mitochondria (guess our elementary school was behind the times; don't remember it from my grade five class!), and I was so excited that something I had thought was fantasy was actually real. A girl that I knew only a little at the time raised her hand and asked the teacher if there were such things as farandolae. The teacher was flummoxed, of course, as was most of the class, but I turned around in my seat to exchange a meaningful glance with my soon-to-be newest friend.
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My comment is just going to be "me too, me too, me too"! Book that changed my life, yup. Book meaningful 'cause I read it when I was young and impressionable (and then kept re-reading as I was getting older and being impressed), yup. Totally identified with Meg even though we're totally different, yup.
And one comment about the science: I was in high school biology class when we were learning about mitochondria (guess our elementary school was behind the times; don't remember it from my grade five class!), and I was so excited that something I had thought was fantasy was actually real. A girl that I knew only a little at the time raised her hand and asked the teacher if there were such things as farandolae. The teacher was flummoxed, of course, as was most of the class, but I turned around in my seat to exchange a meaningful glance with my soon-to-be newest friend.