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A Wind in the Door (Time #2)
A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is a rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for bein...more
Mass Market Paperback, 203 pages
Published
March 1976
by Dell Laurel-Leaf
(first published 1973)
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Madeleine L'Engle is probably one of the reasons why I think magic and faith and science are ultimately compatible.
Jun 08, 2007
stephanie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
young-adult,
childhood-favorites
there are some things, i think, that you read that will always stick with you. for me, one of those things is the scene in this book with progo, and the discussion he has with meg about the importance of naming. how once you are named, you are - no matter what.
i read this later, again, in college, and i read it as a history student, and through that lens, it says fascinating things about the relationship of history and memory, and what history is, and how we leave legacies. like many of l'engle...more
i read this later, again, in college, and i read it as a history student, and through that lens, it says fascinating things about the relationship of history and memory, and what history is, and how we leave legacies. like many of l'engle...more
Mar 27, 2008
Morgan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
everyone
Recommended to Morgan by:
Jenn Allen
Shelves:
magical-fiction,
christian
Now this is what I'm talking about! If 'A Wrinkle in Time' is hot cocoa, then this book was Ghiredelli's Peppermint Hot Cocoa with marshmallows and $100. Seriously.
Trusting the advice of those I loved, I decided to perserver and finish 'The Time Quartet'. So it was onto AWITD and it rooked. Wow, that was me spelling rocked. I thought it was entertaining so I left it for your enjoyment. Anyway, I digress...
This book was great. It joins the same crew; Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin, and throws i...more
Trusting the advice of those I loved, I decided to perserver and finish 'The Time Quartet'. So it was onto AWITD and it rooked. Wow, that was me spelling rocked. I thought it was entertaining so I left it for your enjoyment. Anyway, I digress...
This book was great. It joins the same crew; Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin, and throws i...more
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I was slightly disspointed upon reading A Wind in the Door. I adore and loved A Wrinkle in Time when I read it, and I was expecting something as wonderful and beautiful as that.
Although this book is good, and is thoughtful, it lacked more of the relationships that I loved in the first book in the Time Series. I love Calvin and Meg together, and though there were some cute thoughts and things, not very many. There was also hardly any Charles Wallace, which left me a sense of a missing piece after...more
Although this book is good, and is thoughtful, it lacked more of the relationships that I loved in the first book in the Time Series. I love Calvin and Meg together, and though there were some cute thoughts and things, not very many. There was also hardly any Charles Wallace, which left me a sense of a missing piece after...more
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Talk about strange... This book has a strange resemblance to an episode of the Magic School Bus where they travel inside one of the students... Only that was more believable. I think where L'Engle loses me is that she feels like she needs to explain everything - why not just leave it at - Charles is sick and we are going inside of him to fix what's wrong - see, I just said the same thing she did only she took half the book to say it. Sometimes its better just to leave it to our imagination. If y...more
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I have read this book once, and i absolutely LOVED it. It is very entertaining, and different from every other children's book (including the others in the series,which are unique in their own special way.)It really is a great book, and I am reading the whole series again!
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The Bookworm
Definitely an interesting and fast read. Didn't like it as well as book one...there's a bit in the middle that gets somewhat muddled and a little hard to follow. But an intriguing concept for sure!
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This book is going to take another 2 or 3 readings to really get out of it all that L'Engle intended....there's a lot of profound concepts in this book mixed in with a lot of freak-a-delic creative material (kything, shrimp-shaped sub-molecular symbiotic creatures, dragon-angels, demon-possessed school principals, dying children, etc.) It's a lot to wrap one's brain around in a first-time read. However, mixed within this super-science-fiction-fantasy are some very profound thoughts that, quite h...more
Charles Wallace is in first grade and the victim of bulling. He comes home every day with bruised eyes and broken lips. The book opens with him telling meg that there are dragons in the garden. Meg thinks he is imagining things until she finds that there is indeed a dragon (cherubim). Meg and Charles Wallace again team up with Calvin in this adventure. They go home for the night and in the morning Charles Wallace is sick...very sick. Meg and Calvin find out that size is an illusion. Charles Wal...more
A sequel to the book A Wrinkle in Time, this story starts with Charles Wallace, who is just starting grade 1 at school, and who is getting beat up by other kids because he is much smarter than the rest of the class. But that isn't the only problem. He also seems to be getting more and more tired. Could he have some kind of disease? At the same time, strange things are happening. Stars are disappearing from the sky, and Charles Wallace sees dragons in the yard of his house. In a strange adventure...more
I must have missed this one as a kid, because it was completely unfamiliar.
I very much did not enjoy it because: I did not like the characters- there was a lot of action, with little agency by the protagonists, and they were whiny, and I had so little sympathy for any of them. Farandolae, BAH. Angel/Dragon thing, MEH.
I did not like the sci fi aspects- and maybe if I had read it in the time it was written, it would have been less appalling (this must have been cutting edge speculative fiction a...more
I very much did not enjoy it because: I did not like the characters- there was a lot of action, with little agency by the protagonists, and they were whiny, and I had so little sympathy for any of them. Farandolae, BAH. Angel/Dragon thing, MEH.
I did not like the sci fi aspects- and maybe if I had read it in the time it was written, it would have been less appalling (this must have been cutting edge speculative fiction a...more
The Wind in the Door is a wonderful book. It was written by Madeleine L'Engle and is apart of her series. It displays wonderful themes, is written with wonderful writing and detail, and also has a climax that will keep you suspended wanting to read more. My favorite theme hidden in this book is love. I just thought that Madeleine's idea of adding love as a theme was thoughtful because this book has both characters that seem real and others that are fictional. Some of the fictional characters are...more
Is it weird that I really loved A Wrinkle in Time and I fiercely disliked its sequel? I don't remember it being this bad when I read it as a kid, but bad it is. There are hints of the delightful whimsy of the first book, particularly in the Mr. Jenkins face-off and the "classroom" meeting with Sporos. But there are many more scenes of purported seriousness which aren't handled well at all. The climactic scenes, which I think were supposed to be moving and exciting, were unbearably ham-fisted and...more
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A Wind in the Door should probably get an extra star for the Childhood Nostalgia Bonus, but then it would also lose a star for giving me nightmares (I still vividly remember dreaming, some twenty-two or -three years ago, that an Echthros was in my toothpaste tube and came out when I tried to brush my teeth. It was some time before I could again regard that particular twice-daily ritual with equanimity). So we'll stick with three.
In Wind, Meg and Calvin return to fight the next battle of their wa...more
In Wind, Meg and Calvin return to fight the next battle of their wa...more
Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin are probably some of the most accepting heroes in a book that I’ve ever read because if some giant mass of wings and eyes was grazing in my pasture I wouldn’t be as excited about going and seeing it as they were. I think I would have just went and took a nap instead of investigating (and hope when I woke up it wasn’t still there). They seem to expect and accept all the extraordinary things that happen in their lives and this is one of the main reasons that I love...more
The second book in the series was another read-while-the-baby-naps situations, though it took me a could of days to finish it, due to teething (teething kind of spells "death" to nap time).
Once again, L'Engle manages to describe everything in an intense manner, while also being able to retain much of her original audience.
I have two small issues with this book, and one is that toward the end, there's a section (I will not spoil the details for those who haven't read) that I had to re-read twice...more
Once again, L'Engle manages to describe everything in an intense manner, while also being able to retain much of her original audience.
I have two small issues with this book, and one is that toward the end, there's a section (I will not spoil the details for those who haven't read) that I had to re-read twice...more
This book has some lovely concepts. I liked the conception of dragons as cherubim (and much more imaginative than the sunday-school version of either), and the idea of Naming/Unnaming is like something I have read in George MacDonald. However, the book has several major problems. The plot shoves its way awkwardly around, forcing you to accept that things are happening in a way that feels extremely contrived, especially since much of it is left unexplained. The pace drags on at an interminably sl...more
We read the first book "A Wrinkle in Time" to our children. Since our reading is kind of slow together I wanted to know what the second book is about. So I did a fast two days read. I have given it five stars not because it was the most capturing of children's books, but because of the ideas that are there so amazingly intertwined with the narrative.
The idea of naming, of being named in order to know oneself - I found it profound in its implications and then the opposite force of evil to unname...more
The idea of naming, of being named in order to know oneself - I found it profound in its implications and then the opposite force of evil to unname...more
I was reading an explanation of the difference between "science fiction" and "science fantasy," and it occurred to me that this book would be a good example of the latter category. In brief, science fantasy is described as applying a "scientific veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the real world under any circumstances." In this novel, Meg Murry and her friend Calvin are back, about one year in the future from the events in A Wrinkle in Time. Instead of time/space travel,...more
The book is a very interesting Science-fiction book. It tells the story of a family who has already been a part of some pretty crazy stuff, as told in A Wrinkle in Time. The youngest memeber of the family, Charles Wallace, becomes very sick. His mother, a genius scientist, thinks it is because his Mitochandria are being killed. After Charles Wallace sees a "drive of dragons," which turns out to be a singular Cheribum named Progo. They also meet a Teacher named Blajeny. Blajeny is not your normal...more
Again, I've read a book I'm not sure how to explain. Madeleine L'Engle's writing is so complex and intricate that it's almost impossible to lay it all out... and I'm somewhat astonished (as I always am) that this series is a children's series. I'm more impressed with the kids of that generation than I am with my own. Though this book is clearly fantasy, it has bits of science and science fiction thrown in there for good measure.
This book is the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time and stars the same char...more
This book is the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time and stars the same char...more
I read this book as one of the books for my summer reading, and this would be the second time I have read it. I have read the first book in the series, (A Wrinkle in Time) and I liked this one just as much, but in different ways. The first book involved tessering (a form of teleportation that involves traveling through the fifth dimension) to different galaxies, trillions of light years away from earth, and so on, but for some reason, on one of the distant planets they visit, the inhabitants loo...more
It's a book that you understand more as an adult then as a child. As a child, you'd lose most of the points made of it, simply because it's too erudite. Charles Williams is sick, and is also seeing dragons by his house. Meg has to save him, along with some very unlikely companions.
Again, L'Engle is a fine, creative writer. But there are a lot of the same problems in the first book. Charles Williams simply is unrealistic, and again, he is the focal point of this novel, the macGuffin. He's a six y...more
Again, L'Engle is a fine, creative writer. But there are a lot of the same problems in the first book. Charles Williams simply is unrealistic, and again, he is the focal point of this novel, the macGuffin. He's a six y...more
Jul 09, 2010
Micah
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People who liked A Wrinkle in Time but aren't expecting the same quality from the sequel
Recommended to Micah by:
A friend
When I was in fourth grade, I was in a reading group at my school. We read A Wrinkle in Time, and it was one of the first great books that I had read up to that point. The librarian recommended the other two books in the series to us, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to read them. I had figured out that, mostly (exceptions: anything planned as a trilogy beforehand, Star Wars V, Toy Story 2 and 3), sequels were a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of the original without value of their own.
I ca...more
I like this book as much, if not more, than A Wrinkle in Time, but in a very different way. It might not have as wide of appeal to kids or adults as the first book - whereas in A Wrinkle in Time the characters travel to many planets and meet many characters, A Wind in the Door feels much more interior. It actually is literally interior - Meg and Calvin travel inside a mitochondria to save the life of Charles Wallace. On this journey, size is relative, Meg's wretched principal must join them and...more
My review on Madeleine L'Engle's books in general:
I recently reread many of her teen and children's books (I haven't quite made it through all of them), and I am pretty impressed. The writing style isn't anything to write home about, but she writes in a way that is accessible to all ages. She writes of thing that many teens go through, and puts things bluntly.
Her timeline is somewhat vague and unsteady, but that's not really all that important. When I read those books when I was ten or so, I had...more
I recently reread many of her teen and children's books (I haven't quite made it through all of them), and I am pretty impressed. The writing style isn't anything to write home about, but she writes in a way that is accessible to all ages. She writes of thing that many teens go through, and puts things bluntly.
Her timeline is somewhat vague and unsteady, but that's not really all that important. When I read those books when I was ten or so, I had...more
Oct 16, 2009
Jan
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
The series to young teens
I would like to give this book a higher rating just for it's association with one of my alltime favorite books, A Wrinkle in Time. There are several differences in this book that kept me from liking it as much.
The book is very repetitious, going over and over and over concepts that are described in detail the first time. The heroine, Meg complains and whines a bit too much. It feels like the book lags in places just to lengthen the story. What could be said in a page or two is said in a whole ch...more
The book is very repetitious, going over and over and over concepts that are described in detail the first time. The heroine, Meg complains and whines a bit too much. It feels like the book lags in places just to lengthen the story. What could be said in a page or two is said in a whole ch...more
A wind in the door is about a person named Charlie who has a disease that involves in the mitochondria being destroyed. The setting is in Charles body and at a school.The main characters in the story are Meg, Calvin, and Charles. The external problem is, is that Charles is dieing from a disease and Meg and Calvin are trying to complete three dangouras tasks that could cure Charles of this disease. Meg's internal problem is, is that she is worried that Charles might die from this disease and she...more
I just picked this up from the free bookshelf at work remembering the Author's name and having read "A Wrinkle In Time" when I was a child, and I was pleasantly surprised. I had no idea Wrinkle was the first in a series, and I need to go back and read it again because I've forgotten the content, but "A Wind in the Door" stands on its own, just fine. A wonderful exploration of the boundaries of time and space through the eyes of a tween-aged female protagonist, her 16 year old football hero boyfr...more
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Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regener...more
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“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people. ”
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“Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?'
How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.'
But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.'
I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.'
But how many?'
What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.”
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How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.'
But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.'
I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.'
But how many?'
What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.”
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