The companion to the 1963 Newbery Medal winner A Wrinkle in Time.
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, ... read full description
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, ... read full description
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Dec 16, 2009
stephanie
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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 man 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 man More...
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Mar 27, 2008
Morgan
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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 Wa 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 Wa More...
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Jul 04, 2011
Sarah
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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 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 More...
Oct 20, 2008
Christina
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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
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Mar 03, 2009
Monica
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Dec 14, 2011
Kathryn
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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 More...
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Aug 31, 2011
Wolf
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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
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Jun 08, 2011
Dmdutcher
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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 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 More...
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Jul 09, 2010
Micah
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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 ow More...
Mar 15, 2010
Parry
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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
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Oct 23, 2009
Tamara
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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 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 More...
Oct 16, 2009
Jan
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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 i 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 i More...
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Aug 03, 2009
Ron
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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
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Apr 30, 2009
Kimmie
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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 o
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Apr 26, 2009
Alm
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I thought I was missing out not to have read this classic series. To my disappointment, when I did read it, I found that the premises of the stories in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door are very shaky--are, in fact, never actually explained. The characters continuously seek to understand the strange things they experience through a sort of dialectic with each other and the fantastical creatures they meet; however, at some point, they all just stop the conversation and go on with their lat
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Sep 13, 2011
Bill
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A significant book for me growing up, and still a powerful read now that I'm a grown-up. L'Engle does an amazing job, here and in the rest of this series, describing how human actions have significance beyond our comprehension. Even in a world of cosmic forces, celestial beings, and alternate realities, everything that humans do truly matters. Even something as simple as choosing to dislike another person (as Meg does with her brother's principal, Mr. Jenkins) can have far-reaching consequenc
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Aug 09, 2011
Rachel
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I was inspired by L'Engle's imagination. When I think about the universe, and how the earth is just a tiny planet in a solar system within a galaxy which is just one of thousands of galaxies, and I start to think about the infinite space beyond...Earth starts to feel so lonely and so small. Sometimes it is even difficult to imagine that God, the creator of the Universe, could care so much about this tiny planet and then, to care about an individual even, when there are billions of people, w
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Feb 16, 2010
L- Lisa
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This sequel to A Wrinkle in Time is read by the author, Madeleine L’Engle. The Murry family’s youngest son, Charles Wallace is a first grade genius and very involved in the studies of his mother, a scientist who discovers mitochondria and farndolae. We learn that Charles Wallace is suffering from an illness, a plan of evil Echthroi who have torn a hole in the galaxy. If these problems are not enough, we learn the details of the hardships Charles Wallace is experiencing in f More...
This sequel to A Wrinkle in Time is read by the author, Madeleine L’Engle. The Murry family’s youngest son, Charles Wallace is a first grade genius and very involved in the studies of his mother, a scientist who discovers mitochondria and farndolae. We learn that Charles Wallace is suffering from an illness, a plan of evil Echthroi who have torn a hole in the galaxy. If these problems are not enough, we learn the details of the hardships Charles Wallace is experiencing in f More...
Jul 26, 2011
Amanda
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"A Wind in the Door" marks my third book out of the five in the Time Quintet. I read "A Wrinkle in Time" in middle school and positively adored it, and read "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" last summer and enjoyed that too (despite my 24 years). I picked this book up eagerly, and for the most part, really enjoyed it. The author is very creative and inventive when it comes to the people and places she creates for her stories. She describes each place beautifully, and the r
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Oct 14, 2011
Smilingplatypus
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I want to give this more than two stars, but it's just so darn confusing. As a disclaimer, I never read this as a kid. On the surface, it's simple: Charles Wallace is still a brilliant misfit, but that's normal (for him) until he starts seeing dragons in the garden. And then he gets sick... or, the tiny organisms in his mitochondria get sick, thereby making him sick. It's up to his sister Meg, their friend Calvin, and a cherubim to save him. But after that, things get weird. There are bein
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Jan 24, 2012
Alyson
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I'm not an automatic fan of literature for the young, and some books I really struggle through if their plotting is too simple or too young. At first I devoured this book, but then about the middle the author started spoon-feeding answers. There was a mystery to be unraveled, and she just started giving it away instead of letting the reader figure it out, or even the other characters figure out what the main character knew. Meg Murry had three tasks to complete with her partner Proginoskes, and
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Mar 20, 2011
Jen
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Jan 25, 2012
Laarni
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A Wind in the Door has brought me closer to making the Time Quintet my favorite book series. The old characters from the first book and the new characters are adorable and interesting but for one exception - Meg, who (sadly) is the main protagonist in this book.
One reason I fell in love with Wrinkle in Time is because Charles, Meg, and Calvin are such wonderful characters that even though the story gets a little scientific at times, they still made it interesting, funny, and magical. More...
One reason I fell in love with Wrinkle in Time is because Charles, Meg, and Calvin are such wonderful characters that even though the story gets a little scientific at times, they still made it interesting, funny, and magical. More...
Apr 06, 2010
Ali
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I feel like this book is too often asked to be another Wrinkle in Time, when in fact its sparse cast of characters and relatively uneventful narrative seem like L'Engle's deliberate effort to make it the opposite.
Wrinkle is all about recognizing the universal "song" of the cosmos, and stepping into it. A Wind the Door, however, is about recognizing the cosmos already inside the entity of the human being, and how our choices and sense of identity have an immeasurable effect More...
Wrinkle is all about recognizing the universal "song" of the cosmos, and stepping into it. A Wind the Door, however, is about recognizing the cosmos already inside the entity of the human being, and how our choices and sense of identity have an immeasurable effect More...
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Oct 14, 2011
Ben
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This is a tough book to review fairly. It has the unfortunate job of having to follow up the masterpiece that is A Wrinkle in Time. While it's a good book in its own right, it doesn't come close to the brilliance of its predecessor.
In my review of A Wrinkle in Time, I mentioned that although I've loved that book for a very long time, I've only just now decided to read the rest of the series. At least part of my reason is that I didn't want my experience of the first book to be dimini More...
In my review of A Wrinkle in Time, I mentioned that although I've loved that book for a very long time, I've only just now decided to read the rest of the series. At least part of my reason is that I didn't want my experience of the first book to be dimini More...
Sep 13, 2009
John
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Another solid piece of youth sci-fi from L'Engle. I had read A Wrinkle in Time as a kid, enjoyed it, but never progressed beyond it in the series. Now I expect I'll make my way through the whole thing in due time. What I most appreciate about this novel (true also of Wrinkle) is that L'Engle is able to write Meg as a bright, wise, but also flawed and naive girl. These qualities are well-explored throughout the novel, making in Meg one of the great heroines I know of in young adult fiction.
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Jan 09, 2012
Christina (A Reader of Fictions)
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When I was younger, I loved A Wrinkle in Time, which I just reread and found to be not nearly as amazing as I remembered. The sequels I could not get through at the time, so I guess I like them better now than I did before, or I am less picky about my reading.
In this installment, Charles Wallace is sick and Meg has to pass three tests to help him. Like the first book, much of the novel seems seriously scientific for the audience at which it is aimed. There is, again, a serious biblic More...
In this installment, Charles Wallace is sick and Meg has to pass three tests to help him. Like the first book, much of the novel seems seriously scientific for the audience at which it is aimed. There is, again, a serious biblic More...
Jun 27, 2011
Ami
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This sequel to A Wrinkle in Time is even less enjoyable than the first, which was less enjoyable to read than when I was in seventh grade, so...not very enjoyable. OK. Very OK. Meg and Charles Wallace discover a cherubim in their garden, who is more like a multi-winged, multi-eyed dragon than a Cupid-type cherubim. Charles Wallace gets gravely ill with a partially-invented science-y thing that is transparently designed to make you contemplate the nature of good and evil through a science-y l
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Jan 22, 2011
Thomas
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I love this sequence of books so, so much. That said, I think this particular book is really crap, and the series would be much stronger without it.
I found it unconvincing and unoriginal. It feels sacrilegious to say that about a book by the wonderful Madeleine L'Engle, but I read from beginning to end with a skeptical eyebrow raised--and this from a girl who sobs every time she reads A Swiftly Tilting Planet, who found Many Waters to be brilliantly imaginative, who considers each and More...
I found it unconvincing and unoriginal. It feels sacrilegious to say that about a book by the wonderful Madeleine L'Engle, but I read from beginning to end with a skeptical eyebrow raised--and this from a girl who sobs every time she reads A Swiftly Tilting Planet, who found Many Waters to be brilliantly imaginative, who considers each and More...
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