[Freezair]

I don't know how many of you here were bookish kids. I was, though. Some kids would be begged to get taken to the mall on weekends--I always wanted to go to the library.

Regardless of whether or not you read a lot as a kid, I'm sure that somewhere, for some class, you have read A Wrinkle In Time or any of the books in its series or by its author.

Well, the author, Madeline L'Engle, passed away today at age 88. It's a sad day for children's books.  

(...Someone else here cares, right? I'm not alone in being really depressed by this, right?)

On a creepy note, that makes 3 famous authors who've died this year: Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Galapagos lots of short stories) and Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron and the rest of the Prydain Chronicles) also died. Lloyd Alexander was ALSO a children's book writer... if another children's book writer dies, I will officially be creeped out beyond all reason.

Sorry for being such a downer, but my inner 10-year-old needs to go off and have a good cry.

[Adelie]

Aww...I really loved Madeline L'Engle's books, especially A Wind in the Door, so I'm sad she passed away.  No more awesome books for me to read.

However, since she wrote all these amazing books (An Acceptable Time was awesome), I hope she'll be remembered for generations to come.

(My outer-almost-13-year-old wants to cry now.)

[Solita]

DON'T TELL ME HOW IT ENDScausei'mreadingitrightnow.O_O

This is really, really . . . . scary/interesting/creepy? Ready for the long story? Sounds like you don't mind reading.

So, I read A Wrinkle in Time in fourth grade; we read it as a class, and I remembered it being a freaky sort of book. A year earlier I'd tried to read A Swiftly Tilting Planet and didn't understand it much (being in third grade AND not knowing it was like . . . third in a series?).

Then a few years ago I decided that I wanted to reread Wrinkle, because I knew I'd probably understand it a lot better. So I did, and I liked it, it was interesting (right up my alley with the sci-fi/fantasy thing).

So that was the boring part, but here's the weird part:

Over the summer I met a woman whose child has mitochondrial disease, which is when your mitochondria stop working to break down energy, basically. She did some research and found out that L'engle wrote a book about this disease - A Wind in the Door - about a decade before the disease was actually "discovered." Still today, this is NOT a well known disease at all even though a lot of kids suffer from it (and they're finding it may be linked to Parkinson's and I could go on . . . but I won't). We met again at one of the libraries 'round here just this Wednesday and the lady told me about this book, and I got all excited 'cause I'd started that series a veeeeeeeerry long time ago and decided that I'd go read this book now.

So I'm in the middle of reading it - L'engle is some sort of genius, I'll tell you what.

I'm really, really sad to hear she's died.

[Tick-Tock]

A Wrinkle In Time was one of my favourite books when I was little...

[Freezair]

Over the summer I met a woman whose child has mitochondrial disease, which is when your mitochondria stop working to break down energy, basically. She did some research and found out that L'engle wrote a book about this disease - A Wind in the Door - about a decade before the disease was actually "discovered." Still today, this is NOT a well known disease at all even though a lot of kids suffer from it (and they're finding it may be linked to Parkinson's and I could go on . . . but I won't). We met again at one of the libraries 'round here just this Wednesday and the lady told me about this book, and I got all excited 'cause I'd started that series a veeeeeeeerry long time ago and decided that I'd go read this book now.

Woooah--weird! Since I'm re-reading all of it, I now must read Wind and pay special attention to it now that I know that--that is really interesting.

[Kittyms]

Oh my goodness,  I just remembered that my Grandma said that. At the time, I knew it was an author, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what she was the author of! So sad!! I really liked the Wrinkle In Time series.

[Rezzpalmerre]

I read this series a long time ago. I think back in 5th grade? 6th grade? (I'm in my 3rd year of college now)  I love these books! Madeline L'engle was an amazing author. It's kinda weird because I just recently started re-reading "Many Waters" last week. (It's actually where I  got my Elder Kuhna's name from.) It's so sad she's passed away.

[Freezair]

Oh yep, it is real. Actually, I think I can credit Miss L'Engle with a lot of the way I write, too, because I do the same things--I like to combine science with fantasy. I also now have the urge to write a short story about a character with mitochondrial disease...

...And to prove what a nerd I am, I keep mixing up mitochondria and midichlorians. >< (For those of you who don't know, the midichlorians are the things which supposedly account for the power of the Force in the Star Wars movies... but most SW fans don't like that because it kills the mysticness of the Force. XD)

[Fallen Faith]

I've never read A Wrinkle in Time before. I was suppost to as everyone in my grade did. I was in the advanced class so we read a different book instead. I'm not sure which because it's been 4 years. Our 'Advanced Class' was about reading harder things. The supid thing was that some of us were gifted in something other than english/reading so it wasn't fun for them.