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shadowkatThe prompt is Name a book you are grateful for.
Hmmm.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
As a child, it was hard to find science fiction novels with female protagonists in the 1970s. There were mystery novels, regular novels, and to a lesser degree fantasy novels that had them, but not quite that many scifi for some reason or other. I'm not saying they weren't out there - just that they weren't easy to find. My Aunt, my mother's oldest sister, who was a sixth grade librarian in Vegas, Nevada - introduced me to science fiction through Madeline L'Engle. She also sent me an interview with the writer. She did the same thing with Zelphia Keatley Snyder, a bit later. In Vegas, they apparently had a school district - with on school that only had sixth graders. She was the librarian for that school in the 1970s and early 80s.
(My Aunt died at the age of 55 from a blood clot - in 2000.)
I loved the books and devoured the series. Years, later, on my birthday, I saw the movie and was utterly charmed by it. It managed to capture what I adored about the books.
And much like the lead character, I too, struggled with a bothersome younger brother.
Hmmm.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
As a child, it was hard to find science fiction novels with female protagonists in the 1970s. There were mystery novels, regular novels, and to a lesser degree fantasy novels that had them, but not quite that many scifi for some reason or other. I'm not saying they weren't out there - just that they weren't easy to find. My Aunt, my mother's oldest sister, who was a sixth grade librarian in Vegas, Nevada - introduced me to science fiction through Madeline L'Engle. She also sent me an interview with the writer. She did the same thing with Zelphia Keatley Snyder, a bit later. In Vegas, they apparently had a school district - with on school that only had sixth graders. She was the librarian for that school in the 1970s and early 80s.
(My Aunt died at the age of 55 from a blood clot - in 2000.)
I loved the books and devoured the series. Years, later, on my birthday, I saw the movie and was utterly charmed by it. It managed to capture what I adored about the books.
And much like the lead character, I too, struggled with a bothersome younger brother.
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Date: 2020-11-09 07:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-09 02:03 pm (UTC)I've not read it since I was in the 5th grade - I was about ten or eleven years of age at the time. And it was in the 1970s.
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Date: 2020-11-09 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-09 08:48 pm (UTC)Also, mileage it varies.
As an aside - I get the desire to tell folks you dislike something they loved, but it kind of goes counter to the whole point of this meme - which is talking about something we're grateful for. Negative energy kind of foils the purpose. I'll let it go this once, but the next time - I'm deleting. Against the rules of the meme. The book meme, I'm more lenient regarding it. But not here.
Thank you for understanding.
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Date: 2020-11-10 11:15 am (UTC)