Smokey's review of The Wrinkle in Time Quintet Boxed Set - Rack Size
The Wrinkle in Time Quintet Boxed Set - Rack Size by Madeleine L'Engle
This "sort-of" science fiction series (the author herself is no fan of the genre) centers on the Murray family, who live in New England in the latter half of the 20th century. Everyone in the family is a unique, gifted individual, but all the stories focus primarily upon the children and their reactions to outlandish events involving time and space.
The books blend elements of religion, myth, legend and history, but mainly focus on how each of the children in the stories are forced to rely on themselves and the gifts they are given to fight badness with goodness, to give even when it's hard, and to grow into themselves and their place in the pattern of things.
This five-book set consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time, and is directed primarily at those who are pre-teen, remember vividly being pre-teen, or can tell you with deadly accuracy when their twelfth birthday...more
The books blend elements of religion, myth, legend and history, but mainly focus on how each of the children in the stories are forced to rely on themselves and the gifts they are given to fight badness with goodness, to give even when it's hard, and to grow into themselves and their place in the pattern of things.
This five-book set consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time, and is directed primarily at those who are pre-teen, remember vividly being pre-teen, or can tell you with deadly accuracy when their twelfth birthday...more
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