rockinlibrarian | A Brief Return to the Year of the Tesseract so as to Share a Review With You

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The Madeleine L'Engle fangroup on FB and Twitter just shared this lovely review and defense of A Wrinkle In Time as a Frequently Challenged and/or Banned Book. It's made me nostalgic for the Year of the Tesseract. But there's no time limit on analyzing great books, now, is there? I don't know about you, but now I want to go back and reread all my posts in my Year of the Tesseract series JUST BECAUSE.

I'm not being weirdly self-promoting, here. I'm just genuinely THIS IS SO FUN -ing.

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Thank you for sharing my review! So glad it could reach fellow fans of such an amazing book and author. Stay tuned for a subsequent review of the movie adaptation and the second book.

- Bound and Gagged Books

You're very welcome, thank YOU! Obviously I LOVE discussing this book! Oh, and MY review of the movie is here. (http://rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com/234003.html)

Thank you for sharing this! It's a lovely, meaty review. And the comment about LeGuin - I read "Wizard of Earthsea" as a child and don't remember much, but am listening to it now. Boy howdy. I keep waiting for it to get less sexist, but so far, it's appallingly laden with only men can do real magic, and women's magic is not as good, plus women are inherently duplicitous.

Maybe I should be re-listening to "A Wrinkle in Time" instead.

I also remember next to NOTHING about the Earthsea books! I did enjoy them, but my memory of them is SO VAGUE I'm not even sure what's my memory and what's just from descriptions I've read elsewhere. So, you don't recommend revisiting them, then?

I liked them OK, but not enough to reread them as much as I did so much else. I don't know... this one is terribly sexist, but the language is really beautiful and I'm sure it's getting to good points about the importance of balance and humility. I know she wrote one with a female lead much later that I never read. I am curious to go far enough with the series to see how much she changed by that time.