In case you haven't seen it, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly is devoted to "All-Time Greatest" lists. Sure, everyone's got all-time greatest lists, and such lists are always open to passionate debate and sometimes straight-up ire. But what I like about these particular lists-- I bought the hard copy, for reasons that may soon become clear ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, 94 years ago today, a baby girl was born in New York City, who would grow into the woman I named my daughter after. Such an event cannot be taken lightly, oh no, particularly not when this IS The Year Of the Tesseract. (I KNOW. I haven't written one of those posts in ages. I apologize profusely if you only started following me ( Read more... )

This is just to let everyone who wants to chime in know that the delightful GeekMom blog is making Wrinkle their August Book Club selection. I know YOU'RE all read up (as opposed to "redd up"-- random Pittsburghese for you) and ready to join in!

*Ahem*

So, as we got closer to the end of Betsy Bird's countdown, I kind of hoped that maybe, with everyone thinking about the 50th anniversary lately, MAYBE we could pull an upset and overthrow Charlotte's Web for the top spot. So Charlotte's Web turns out to be untouchable. Oh well. Still, holding steady at #2 is good... is GREAT... is proving ( Read more... )

It's gotten to the point where, if you happen to be my LiveJournal Friend, you can't click on the blog without my entire first page being "My Tweets" imports. I try to Friendslock those posts as soon as I catch them, not because they're meant to be friends-only (you can just read my Twitter if you wanted to read what was in those posts, AND MORE, ( Read more... )

Technically this doesn't EXACTLY fit, but I'll leave you with the regular intro anyway:

Series Intro: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my FAVORITE BOOK EVER, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I am filling 2012 with BLOG POSTS EXPLORING EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT OF THIS BOOK IN GREAT DEPTH. I call it the Year of the Tesseract, and you can see ( Read more... )

Series Intro: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my FAVORITE BOOK EVER, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I am filling 2012 with BLOG POSTS EXPLORING EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT OF THIS BOOK IN GREAT DEPTH. I call it the Year of the Tesseract, and you can see what I've written already by clicking the year of the tesseract tag. There WILL be ( Read more... )

Series Intro: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my FAVORITE BOOK EVER, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I am filling 2012 with BLOG POSTS EXPLORING EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT OF THIS BOOK IN GREAT DEPTH. I call it the Year of the Tesseract, and you can see what I've written already by clicking the year of the tesseract tag. There WILL be ( Read more... )

Series Intro: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my FAVORITE BOOK EVER, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I am filling 2012 with BLOG POSTS EXPLORING EVERY POSSIBLE ASPECT OF THIS BOOK IN GREAT DEPTH. I call it the Year of the Tesseract, and you can see what I've written already by clicking the year of the tesseract tag. There WILL be ( Read more... )