Madeleine L'Engle

Becoming Madeleine:  a Biography of the Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters has been criticized by some for being too easy on Ms. LEngle.  And okay, I get that.  I mean, aren't I the one who criticized Who Was/Is bios of the Little House lady and Alfred Hitchcock for the same reason?  But I have admitted how much I love L'Engle and I do feel that the authors, Ms. L'Engle's granddaughters explained why they ended the bio with the publication of AWIT and left some things out, so how can you be too upset?  I can't help it, I love L'Engle and I really enjoyed this book. 

As I have said before, but I am happy to say again...

Madeleine L'Engle was brilliant.  I recently read and wrote about A Wrinkle in Time and I had to quickly move on to A Wind in the Door, which I loved even more, if that is even possible.  So much great stuff in here.  A book you can really get lost in.  I listened to the download and reversed multiple times just to hear the beauty of the power of a sentence or paragraph again.  A remarkable Christian writer.  A writer for everyone, really though.

Much, much love...

A Wrinkle in Time is a tough book, I think.  But a beautiful one.  And one worth reading more than once.  Madeleine L'Engle, if she had to be described in one word, which would be impossible because she is just amazing that she can't be limited to a one-word description, but if she HAD to be, it would be brilliant. 
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading this book aloud to our class.  And then I tried to reread it last year, but I couldn't get into it.  But this year, I don't know...I finally really, really listened to it and it just spoke right to my heart.