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A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine l'Engle, Author of a Wrinkle in Time by Sarah Arthur
2.0
When this book arrived for me at the library, I was surprised by how small a thing it is. A thin paperback, not the thick biography I had been anticipating. I will preface this by saying that I can tell there was so much work and tears in the research and writing of this book. I mostly enjoyed this book, but I still felt I came away with more information about the author than L’engle.
It’s such a fine balance to write a biography of a Christian who teaches without doing your own preaching in the text. But maybe this was perhaps because the intended audience of the book was not other Christians.
All that to say: I do appreciate a fellow Christian’s perspective on all that L’engle’s work means to them, I was just expecting many more anecdotes and excerpts about the subject herself than her impact on others.
I was inspired to put rereading her sci-fi series and pursuing some of her lesser popular works as a result of reading this book.
It’s such a fine balance to write a biography of a Christian who teaches without doing your own preaching in the text. But maybe this was perhaps because the intended audience of the book was not other Christians.
All that to say: I do appreciate a fellow Christian’s perspective on all that L’engle’s work means to them, I was just expecting many more anecdotes and excerpts about the subject herself than her impact on others.
I was inspired to put rereading her sci-fi series and pursuing some of her lesser popular works as a result of reading this book.