Hello blog of mine! It’s my first post for the new decade, so, like everybody…
L is for L’Engle #AtoZChallenge
I fell in love with Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time when I was a kid. Up until then I read mostly historical fiction (Thank you, American Girls books . . .) and Nancy Drew. The idea of interplanetary travel was new and I didn’t so much read as inhaled the series.
I didn’t pick up L’Engle’s work again until my senior year in high school, when I read Walking on Water on a sweaty stank-tomb of a bus on my way back from Mexico.
You know when you sink into a hot tub on a frigid winter night? At first your entire body screams H*** NO!! But then the pain subsides and your muscles relax like ice cream melting on hot concrete during a Californian 4th of July. It’s a giant hug from the tub.
That’s what reading Walking on Water was like. A giant ice-cream hug from Madeleine L’Engle.
This was the first time I encountered anybody who thought the same way I did, who not only thought dreams of angels and unicorns and slowing down the busyness of life is healthy for any artist but encouraged it. Every page was a validation of my soul.
Since then, I have fallen in love with her nonfiction in a Desdmond-Dickens way. I still have a couple unread books of hers on my shelf, but I don’t want to read them because it means I have no more L’Engle books to discover.
Because every single nonfiction book is another flavor of ice cream.
Who is your favorite author?
(If you’re a L’Engle fan, here are some words that may cause a heart attack in you as they did in me: there is a FIFTH BOOK in the Time series! IT’S A QUINTENT!!!
You’re welcome.)
I remember the Wrinkle in Time series and I was fascinated by the physics involved as well. It’s been years since I’ve read L’Engle, I’ll have to check out Walking on Winter. Thanks for the recommendation!
You’re so welcome! I’ve read my copy so many times it’s all molded. But I haven’t had the heart to buy a new one 🙂
Great post. I grew up on Encyclopedia Brown. LOL
Good luck on the A to Z Challenge.
JC Gatlin, Mystery Author
http://jcgatlin.com/
I totally read Encyclopedia Brown! Every one in the series 🙂 Because of him, I know doors swing out in the direction of the hinges.