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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
I wish I'd read this as a child, I just know that I would've found such a connection to it. I really enjoyed the concepts and all the interesting characters, however I felt the pacing was a bit off. the beginning was quite slow and the ending was so sudden. perhaps that will be explored in the other books in the series but I'm unsure if I'll read them
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
We read this in our adult book club since the movie was coming out and then I also read it with my daughter, finishing up with the audiobook on a road trip. I highly recommend the audiobook read by Ms. L’Engle herself. I just love hearing books read by the author.
The story is as beautiful as I remembered from my first reading. All my girls enjoyed it - both the first timer and the ones who had read it before.
One thing I noticed this time around was the vocabulary used. I absolutely love how she doesn’t speak down to her young readers, but uses big, rarely used words in the middle of dialogue and narrative. The sentences are just so rich!
Love this book and glad we revisited it.
7 year old thoughts from the most recent go around:
Favorite character: Mrs. Who. He liked all of her quotes.
And Charles Wallace. :)
The story is as beautiful as I remembered from my first reading. All my girls enjoyed it - both the first timer and the ones who had read it before.
One thing I noticed this time around was the vocabulary used. I absolutely love how she doesn’t speak down to her young readers, but uses big, rarely used words in the middle of dialogue and narrative. The sentences are just so rich!
Love this book and glad we revisited it.
7 year old thoughts from the most recent go around:
Favorite character: Mrs. Who. He liked all of her quotes.
And Charles Wallace. :)
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
I first tried to read this book as a kid. I was five years old and the library edition of this book had the coolest cover I had ever seen: obviously, the story inside of it would be just as great. I was five though, and realised very quickly that the book was a bit beyond my reading level - so I put it back on the shelf.
I didn't pick it up again until now, as an adult...young adult...and only after a trusted friend's recommendation.
It was fantastic. It's very rare that I read a book all in one shot (you see, this is pretty difficult if you're dyslexic, and also very busy with many other things), and sure this one wasn't very long (or difficult to read), but I read it all in one shot. That counts for something. It was enjoyable. Not to mention how the cover art of the library edition still captures my imagination (judge me all you want about my obsession with books' covers; I'm an artist, and book cover illustrations are fairly relevant to my interests with art), bonus points there.
Sometimes, rarely, I'll read something - someone's thoughts, or fiction, and everything just clicks. In the most cliche sense, I feel like the speaker/author and I have the same imagination, like we are seeing the same things through different lenses. I rarely come across this feeling, so when main aspects of this book gravitated around shadows, something controlling called 'central', greek mythological references, and references to modern science - I was thrilled. I understood it all.
I even understood all of the subtle (and overt) Biblical references. These I was not so pleased with. The subtle references are understandable, they show an understanding of the basis of old Western culture if anything, and Biblical references in Western literature has been very common and cultural almost for the past 1000 years. I can deal with the subtle references. I can appreciate those to some degree. I do not like the overt Biblical quotations, quotations of Christian hymns, and how all of the characters openly attributed one thing or another to god or the Christian religion. I see many people comparing this book to the works by C.S. Lewis. I disagree. C.S. Lewis' writing was overtly religious, but in a symbolic and literary way. The religious aspect of 'A Wrinkle in Time' was just annoying. Granted, I'm not religious at all, so I'm sure I am biased in some way. Otherwise, this book was fantastic.
I didn't pick it up again until now, as an adult...young adult...and only after a trusted friend's recommendation.
It was fantastic. It's very rare that I read a book all in one shot (you see, this is pretty difficult if you're dyslexic, and also very busy with many other things), and sure this one wasn't very long (or difficult to read), but I read it all in one shot. That counts for something. It was enjoyable. Not to mention how the cover art of the library edition still captures my imagination (judge me all you want about my obsession with books' covers; I'm an artist, and book cover illustrations are fairly relevant to my interests with art), bonus points there.
Sometimes, rarely, I'll read something - someone's thoughts, or fiction, and everything just clicks. In the most cliche sense, I feel like the speaker/author and I have the same imagination, like we are seeing the same things through different lenses. I rarely come across this feeling, so when main aspects of this book gravitated around shadows, something controlling called 'central', greek mythological references, and references to modern science - I was thrilled. I understood it all.
I even understood all of the subtle (and overt) Biblical references. These I was not so pleased with. The subtle references are understandable, they show an understanding of the basis of old Western culture if anything, and Biblical references in Western literature has been very common and cultural almost for the past 1000 years. I can deal with the subtle references. I can appreciate those to some degree. I do not like the overt Biblical quotations, quotations of Christian hymns, and how all of the characters openly attributed one thing or another to god or the Christian religion. I see many people comparing this book to the works by C.S. Lewis. I disagree. C.S. Lewis' writing was overtly religious, but in a symbolic and literary way. The religious aspect of 'A Wrinkle in Time' was just annoying. Granted, I'm not religious at all, so I'm sure I am biased in some way. Otherwise, this book was fantastic.
Strange and amazing, this surreal novel fostered interest in my for time, space, and dimension travel. Love it, I've read it multiple times and it maintains the greatness of when I first read it.