Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

14 reviews

authorannafaundez's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I've loved this book since I first read it as a child, and I come back to it every now and then as an adult. I love how L'Engle emphasizes uniqueness as strength: "like and equal are not the same."

I know this book was written in a time when the fears of communism were rampant in the world, forced sameness and the death of the individual. And while A Wrinkle in Time is essentially about that, L'Engle spins those fears into strengths that a child can understand. I always finish this book feeling hopeful and glad of my uniqueness. I hope you do too.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying and Confinement

unusuallyy's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Grief

Moderate: Death, Confinement, and Death of parent

a child is naked in the presence of adults, but not in a sexual way

kwichris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Violence and Infidelity

peperopoi's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Baby's first sci-fi with a simple theme: love conquers evil. All of the characters are a fascinating combination of grotesque and beautiful that I can't recall any other children's novel including — I'm inclined to say that effect is unique to L'Engle. It's a great, surprisingly nuanced novel that I'd recommend having in any children's library.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, and Bullying

Moderate: Body horror and Violence

Minor: Child abuse

saintyeehaw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body shaming, Confinement, Grief, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Body horror

proza's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I think that L'Engle had some interesting ideas, and I can appreciate that, but in my opinion the execution was very poor. The way the morals of the story were conveyed didn't work at all for me. That being said, I am able to understand why other enjoy this book. It's just that I did not enjoy it at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse

kwichris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Violence and Infidelity

kirame's review

adventurous dark lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

Minor: Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, and Infidelity

stories's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

There’s a lot to this, and while it reads comfortably as a kids book, I see how it’s lived on.

Book club: mid-5/6
Explore descriptive language (especially of setting) and character design (power of character flaws)
Themes around love, acceptance and valuing difference
Big questions around time travel/physics, and the ethics of utopia (equal doesn’t mean alike)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, and Confinement

antonia_schuro's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Too christian for me. Basically thinly vailed cold war propaganda about good christian kids going on a scientific outer space adventure to fight evil communism. Writing is good but damn. Would not recommend reading it for the first time as an adult.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, War, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Confinement, Classism, Bullying, Abandonment, and Child abuse