At the rate I'm going we'll both be waiting quite a while. I can't stand the suspense; at the rate of one HP book per school break, I'll be hitting 6 between the submission of my thesis and my final residency. How's THAT for timing.
This scant ten-day June break brings book 4. Hold me.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet continues to be the book I re-read from that series. Granted, it's the only one I currently have in my possession, but at almost-24, I could have any of them tomorrow.
ASTP just amazes me every time I read it. Whether or not I notice something new, the nuances and foreshadowings are fanatsic. IMO, it's L'Engle's best.
Maybe AWitD is the book she wrote for bio nerds, and ASTP is the one she wrote for English nerds?
See, I quit at AWTP because I got all bored when Meg and Calvin got together. Dating was so booooring (or so I thought then). But I think maybe I should read it now, because frankly I was, and am, a big ol' English nerd.
I think I identified my brother with Charles Wallace and myself with Meg and so AWitD was really really big for me. Plus the terrifying cherubim...I read that book many times.
See, while I've always loved Charles Wallace, he really shined for me in ASTP--ie, the book where was THE MAIN CHARACTER.
Sadly, other than the one about Sandy and Dennys which I never read, the books all seem to center around Meg and Calvin and their twoo wuv. At least in ASTP, Charles Wallace and Gaudior got the best snarky lines.
I just really love the tracking of history and the mutability of space-time in ASTP.
I have, although not since I was a child. I loved them a lot and always thought my best friend was very much the girl from them. I never identified with them really, alhough I did identify with their message. I just remember all those kids on the street, bouncing the balls until one drops his. I don't remember much else well, but I'll always remember that.
I was actually given a copy of the first four while pregnant and found myself copying out Patrick's Rune and the verse from Many Waters to chant protectively and with the idea of using them in the baby's room somehow.
People always seem to miss the whole other series about the Austin family and all the stand alones, which I happened across about six years after I read the usual ones.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:01 am (UTC)This scant ten-day June break brings book 4. Hold me.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:13 am (UTC)ASTP just amazes me every time I read it. Whether or not I notice something new, the nuances and foreshadowings are fanatsic. IMO, it's L'Engle's best.
Maybe AWitD is the book she wrote for bio nerds, and ASTP is the one she wrote for English nerds?
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:16 am (UTC)I think I identified my brother with Charles Wallace and myself with Meg and so AWitD was really really big for me. Plus the terrifying cherubim...I read that book many times.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:23 am (UTC)Sadly, other than the one about Sandy and Dennys which I never read, the books all seem to center around Meg and Calvin and their twoo wuv. At least in ASTP, Charles Wallace and Gaudior got the best snarky lines.
I just really love the tracking of history and the mutability of space-time in ASTP.
God, I am such a nerd...
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 10:23 am (UTC)People always seem to miss the whole other series about the Austin family and all the stand alones, which I happened across about six years after I read the usual ones.
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:03 pm (UTC)