no. oh, no.

[batyatoon]

Madeleine L'Engle dies at age 88.

Just last month I finally gave up on finding my long-missing copy of A Wrinkle In Time and bought a new one. And have since reread it, along with A Wind In The Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

I found myself impatient with some of the dialogue that I found pleasingly profound as a child, and less willing to suspend disbelief on some plot points, and disagreeing vehemently with some thematic points ... and even with all of that, I was struck again and again by how overwhelmingly good these books are.

Rest in peace, lady. And thank you.

Comments

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

To this I only have this to say: Aw. I really liked her stuff.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

I very seriously doubt I would have gotten out of 4th grade sane -- or even alive -- without the copy of AWIT I kept checking out of the classroom book shelf (*what* library?) over and over.

And I've been in love with the idea of tesseracts ever since.

Thank you very much, ma'am.

[infiniteviking]

Rly? That's too bad. I'll have to read those again.