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Loading... A Wind in the Door (1973)by Madeleine L'Engle
I wanted to like this book as much as the first one (A Wrinkle in Time). I really did. But I couldn't. There was way too much repitition and spinning in circles going nowhere for my tastes. I don't mind a bit of meandering and taking time to get someplace, but when the characters keep asking the same questions over and over and over again? Well, I start to get annoyed and just want to move on, not stand there and answer the same question that was asked by the same character two pages ago. (Since I'm approaching the book from an adult perspective and it's actually meant for an upper elementary/middle school perspective, I feel it's only fair to add that the repitition didn't bother my kids nearly as much as it did me.) (  ) TnTexas | Apr 27, 2013 |  I did like it, but not quite as well as A Wrinkle in Time. It would have been 3 1/2 stars really. (  ) Ameliapei | Apr 18, 2013 | January 2013-- Read and loved this years ago but have just started listening to the audiobook read by the author, and am looking forward to being swept up in the world of the Murrays once again. I figured it would be a good precursor to my reading of [b:Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices|13538666|Listening for Madeleine A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices|Leonard S. Marcus|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352153840s/13538666.jpg|19101015], which I just received today and is in my "to read very soon" stack. ... Okay, finished listening to the audiobook version, and while another narrator probably would have given a more polished reading, it was insightful hearing it read in L'Engle's dry, almost inflectionless voice. The battles of good vs evil come across as a little didactic in places, and it's definitely more heavy-handed than [b:A Wrinkle in Time|18131|A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)|Madeleine L'Engle|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329061522s/18131.jpg|948387], but overall a lovely story and a worthy sequel for anyone who fell in love with Meg and Calvin and Charles Wallace in the first installment. (  ) KimJD | Apr 8, 2013 | Strange, but interesting story. I definitely like A Wrinkle in Time better, but this book wasn't bad. It was okay. ( ) Barb_H | Apr 5, 2013 | I just had a flashback to my sophomore year in high school, when my attempt to draw Proginoskes on the chalkboard was interpreted rather poorly by the Driver's Ed teacher as something gynecological in nature. Small wonder I'd forgotten that. I don't think that one can judge this particular book on anything but sheer emotion. It doesn't stand up to any sort of plot analysis, but it's somehow love made visible. One thing I adore about L'Engle is that her female characters are smart and capable and fearless- the adult ones, at least. And the girls all have potential to grow into fabulous confident women. There's an exultant intelligence about these books that I clung to as a kid. ( ) satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inA Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet / A Wind In the Door by Madeline L'Engle The Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / Dragons in the Waters / A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
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