A review by lirazel
A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine l'Engle, Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Sarah Arthur

3.5

This is pretty surface-level which is why I didn't rate it higher. I have a personal preference for books that dig a little deeper and I set my expectations too high for such short books to meet them. That's my issue, not the author's. 

Most of the joy I took from this book was in realizing that so many other people were so influenced by L'Engle's thoughts on faith, art, and life. She was so important to me as a teenager and continues to influence my life in countless small ways (I always say that my love of her writing as a kid was foreshadowing for my growing up to be Episcopalian instead of the evangelical I was raised to be). It's wonderful to know that so many other people were having similar experiences, connecting deeply to L'Engle's writing and benefiting from her expansive view of the universe, her wonder and joy, her belief in creation of art as vocation.