<![CDATA[The Joys of Love]]>

false <![CDATA[The Joys of Love]]> 1880231 4 <div><div>During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She’s never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth’s ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth’s perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was.<br><br><br><br>Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author’s granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L’Engle herself as a young woman—“vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.”<br><br></div></div> 2285512 29 4 2008 The Joys of Love total:175|5:26|4:61|3:62|2:23|1:3| 175 609 297 71 4 1 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 20:08:47 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 19:06:11 -0800 2009 Madeleine L'Engle wrote in the 40s (and 50s?) but didn't get published. It was published posthumously last year.

The story follows Elizabeth Jerrold, an orphan whose parents are rather a mystery to the reader until a good way through the book. She has graduated from S...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:09:27 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 15:22:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:33:12 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 19:13:53 -0700 2009
—The Joys of Love, P. 4

"If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down."

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I am a huge fan of Madeleine L'Engle. I collect her books, and I have high expectations for what I should get out of them. The Joys of Love was just okay for me. The characters were lovely, and I was eager to find out what happened to them, but it wasn't as good a...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 07:09:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 07:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 10 18:22:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 14:29:30 -0700 2009 once
I wonder if she was still alive would it ever have been published. Her granddaughters are responsible for its publication and I have to ask if it was sentimentality or the thought of more d...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 06:22:43 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 06:25:41 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 12 20:44:45 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 15:23:37 -0700 2009
Written in the ‘40s, this is purportedly an autobiographical look at a young L’Engle. While I liked its sense of sett...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 17 15:22:38 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 15:28:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 10:37:46 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 10:15:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 17:47:04 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 07:02:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 21:15:30 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 21:16:04 -0700 2008
Elizabeth has big dreams of becoming an actress. She loves everything about the theater and feels born to be a part of it. Her aunt, who has raised her, wants a more conventional life and disapproves of Elizabeth's ambitions to become an act...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 20:21:07 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 16:01:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 03 10:50:25 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:00:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 14:44:49 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 05:45:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 18:32:46 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:13:20 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 14 08:50:30 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:55:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:08:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:12:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 13:15:34 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 13:19:40 -0700 2009
But the endi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 14:09:37 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 14:11:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1880231