A review by cimorene1558
The Moon by Night by Madeleine L'Engle

4.0

Not my favourite L'Engle book by a long shot, but well worth reading, nonetheless. Growing up is hard, and there's no flinching from that fact in this book. Like "Meet the Austens", it's pretty dated in a lot of ways--mainly by many, many references to the Cold War--but I'd say it's less noticeably dated in some ways than the first book, in part because it's mostly about a camping trip, and you don't notice the lack of technology so much because of that. Certainly the US the Austens are travelling through is a rather different one than you would find today (and ditto Canada, which they briefly visit), but I didn't find that such a glaring difference as the picture of home life without computers, cell phones or even much TV in "Meet the Austens". Maybe just because I've never taken a road trip across the US and western Canada.