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    <body><![CDATA[Madeline L'Engle won the Newbery in 1963 for her classic &quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot;.  This is a much lesser known work (I'd never heard of it until I discovered it while doing library inventory) published two years prior to Wrinkle. <br/><br/>This is a very different genre than any thing else I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61341274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novel about a family whose members share their experiences with each other, who accept each each member with love, trusting each other enough to not feel the need to hide things.  We could all learn a thing or two from them.<br/><br/>I've read other books in the Austin family series befo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69097409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh.  I go all bonkers for kids books usually, and I am going to keep reading this series, but jeez, Madeleine!  This book is like 90% telling!  Duh, didn't you take Creative Writing where they teach you to SHOW?  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a lot of trouble deciding whether I liked this book or not. Unfortunately I read A Ring of Endless Light first, and Meet the Austins isn't anywhere near the depth and quality of A Ring of Endless Light, which is the 4th book in the series. I love reading about the Austin family, love thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67081454">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It held up yet again. Interesting that lately I've noticed that I tend to feel emotionally attached to the parents as much as the kids (heading in that direction and age myself, I guess it's inevitable!), but I didn't have that so much with this - I think that's a testament to L'Engle's writing, sin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18826943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder how I would have felt about this book if I would have read it as a kid?  I haven't read much of L'engle outside of A Wrinkle in Time, which I loved as a kid.  I read this after people started talking about all the books of hers they loved after she died this year.  There were a lot of thing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6964968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently on a library binge, the library in question, of course, being the one down the hall from my office. School library, you are the best. <br/>I read A Ring of Endless Light in elementary school, decided the Austins were no Murrays, and tossed the whole series in the pile of treacle. But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37425499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love these type of books, where the family is together, the children all respect each other, and it's just one great big happy. Little did I know when I picked up this book in the library last night that it is the first in a series of books. I felt as if I were reading about the Murry family in an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47465184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was delightful and comforting: much like curling up into a favorite chair with a mug of cocoa.  Although I hadn't read it before, it felt familiar.  The family brought to life by L'Engle is charming and lovely and it is easy to forget the blahs of daily life and fall in to the peaceful com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77899132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have more to say about this book than what I could ever even begin to write here. Emotionally, it was incredibly difficult for me to read, simply because it gets so much right about life and death and love and family. I must have read this when I was young, but I don't think I was ready for it the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69215140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have respect for her as a writer, but some of her characters are hard to relate to, and a lot of her fiction is dreadfully out of date.  Not many people under the age of 50 will really enjoy this book, as there's not enough action or plot to hold a child's attention these days.  But it did remind ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41769491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books from childhood. I first read it in 1962 when I was 9. I still enjoy the story, and all of Madeleine L'Engle's books for that matter, but I think it's probably somewhat dated; kids today might not enjoy it that much, unless they are reading it as a period piece. It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5614857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[L'Engle is a great writer no denying it.  It's a way different sort of book than the fantasy novels she's best known for.  Her other Genre I feel is her forte, but it's a smart piece for older children up to young adults that is still above the average family feel good book, and worth reading.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like any good geekling, I read the bulk of L'Engle's Murry-O'Keefe books (<em>A Wrinkle in Time</em>, <em>A Swiftly Tilting Planet</em>) back in grade school. But I never tried her other, more earthbound series, featuring the Austin family. This is the first of them, and while I can't say it's going to knock <em>Planet</em> o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55492280">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently read this again.  I love L'Engle's writing and her fiction for children is wonderful.  If you are looking for a YA book with lots of angst and societal issues, this is not it.  But it IS a beautiful tale of a family that feels real, with everyday chaos and emotional bumps and bruises along ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20533241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I'm not a *gasp* <em>A Wrinkle in Time</em> fan, I do remember reading two of L'Engle's other Austin family books and enjoying them. I decided to read this one as it is the genesis of the Austin family stories. It's a relatively quiet book about a family being a family. Solidly written and enjoyable. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78485557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love L'Engle - especially sci-fi/fantasy stuff - this is a bit of a departure - but sweet and thought provoking and a glimpse into the '50's family sensibility (Father doesn't like when women wear pants!)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the author and style, love the series! We read this one as a family outloud, and it was great. Will probably save the others for much later, since it gets into the whole girlfriend/boyfriend scene. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the beginning of the series about the Austin family that I realized was a series with the endless light book. It was written in the 60s and is from the same daughter's perspective, just about the happenings in their cute family. I really love happy family books. Honestly it does remind me a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39189270">more...</a>]]></body>
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