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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 02:43 pm (UTC)Have you ever read Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage? Another book from that era with a female protagonist that I really liked (haven't read it in probably 50 years).
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Date: 2020-11-10 05:27 am (UTC)I not only loved the book, I was so enamored of the cover art (on the paperback, don't know if it was on the hard cover edition) that I had an artist friend make a wall-hangable copy of it for me, which I still have to this day. He used, I think pastels, he called them? It was like charcoal, but in color. Did a darn good job considering how small the source was.
Dug through my old paperbacks, and lo and behold, here's a pic:
(click to enlarge)
Howzabout that! :-)
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Date: 2020-11-10 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-10 02:10 pm (UTC)I can't see the picture. When I click I get the message "not authorized".
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Date: 2020-11-11 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-11 01:13 pm (UTC)