| I finished re-reading Many Waters again last night. It's one of my favourite books; I used to get it out again and again from the public library before I ever found my own copy. It is the 'third in the Time Quartet', which is the sort of chronological ordering that annoys me - it was written in 1986, the others in 1962, 1973, 1978 - they're all very spread out.
This is probably the most Christian of any of her kid's books - but then, it is a retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, when Sandy & Dennys mess with one of their father's tessering experiments and get transported back to Noah's time. I think it was less strange to read that when I was younger, and less pagan, and hadn't been studying geology at uni for two years. I have no difficulty accepting seraphim and nephilim and virtual unicorns.
It's more when one of the seraphim comments that this is a younger sun than what Sandy & Dennys are used to - and whilst strictly that's true, a few thousand years is a negligible timespan in the life of our sun. So the idea that the age of the sun would make a difference irks me.
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| My favourite author is dead. Madeleine L'Engle died last night. I suppose she's been old for as long as I've been alive but it seems odd to think that.
A Wrinkle in Time was the first book of hers I ever read, though it's not my favourite. I was lucky in that my intermediate school library had some other books of hers - I think otherwise I would never have come across them. And I would be quite a different person then. I have been 'discovering' her over and over as I have got hold of more of her books, and I have my copy of Certain Women sitting on my shelf that I still haven't gotten round to reading. (I know they're there now, and I'm not in any hurry.)
I would like to talk about what her books mean to me, and the ways they made me think. But there's so much. So much, and yet that's all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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