A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle - 5*

[Elise]

I have always considered this one of my favourite books, but I hadn’t actually read it in ages, so after the last huge book I read I needed something short and sweet to reset my brain, so I picked this one to see if it was still deserving of its spot on my faves shelf (spoiler alert: it is).

Meg Murry’s father has disappeared a while ago. Nobody tells her where he is, but her mother seems convinced he’ll eventually come back, so so is she. One night, a very weird visitor shows up and speaks of something called a tesseract. Soon, Meg, her friend Calvin and her little brother Charles Wallace are whisked away in an intergalactic journey to search for their father and perhaps save the universe while they’re at it.

This book is technically all kinds of weird, and if I’d been older when I first read it I might have wondered what Madeleine L’Engle was smoking when she wrote it (if I’d been older when I first read it, I might not have been able to suspend disbelief enough to really like it). But it’s so charming that it worms its way into your heart and has become deserving of its classic status.

I wonder if anybody has read for the first time as an adult, and what they thought of it?

[Jennifer]

I read it for the first time as an adult and I loved it. My daughter read it (and the rest of the series) last year in school (3rd grade) and really, really, really loves them. So I read a Wrinkle in Time this summer. I thought it was sweet. I had no trouble suspending belief to appreciate it.

[annapi]

I used to borrow this book from the school library over and over again from 5th to 7th grade (same with Magic with Chemistry). I loved it then and though as an adult some of the shine has gone, I still love this book.

[Book Concierge]

I read it for the first time as an adult as well ... actually listened to the audio. D'Engle read it herself - which was a mistake.

[Joi]

Definitely need to re-read before the movie next March!

[Cora]

annapi wrote: "I used to borrow this book from the school library over and over again from 5th to 7th grade (same with Magic with Chemistry). I loved it then and though as an adult some of the shine has gone, I s..."

I agree with annapi. This is one of my favorite books, but skip the audio read by the author. If I had not read the book multiple times myself I would not have liked it based on the whiney way L'engle delivers Meg's dialog.

[Elise]

Next March, thanks! I knew a movie was coming, but hadn't heard anything precise.

By the way, has anyone seen the adaptation from... of, maybe 10 years back? It may have been only a TV-movie adaptation? I have a very vague memory of it, but it was definitely Wrinkle, I remember Meg in the attic, the boys bouncing balls on Camazotz (creepiest scene ever) and IT.