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church this morning bored me to tears, almost literally.

but no one can annoy me in that special way i annoy myself. grr.

i am this close to gathering together all my madeleine l'engle books together and reading through the humongous pile of them. i loved her dearly for a long time. i missed out on the kid books when i was actually a kid and read them all around age 16 instead. and then kept reading. swiftly tilting planet and a ring of endless light were my most favorite. and as i read her more recent stuff and saw her speak once at smith (her alma mater - something which came very close to making me pick smith over mhc) i came to two disturbing realizations - a) she is very christian and b) she's not actually a very good writer. the older she got, the more ridiculously fanciful her writing became. the wrinkle in time series is probably her best work because it doesn't pretend to a hold on reality like some of her other stuff. of course, reading her memoirs, i also learned that her actual life was a unrealistic as her books... so one could almost excuse her. but i think a small rain, written when she was young, showed a promises that's completely gone by the time she wrote its belated sequel, a severed wasp.

that said, i still love the books i love. even if the whole dolphin thing is silly, a ring of endless light still leaves me happier than it finds me. and i'll always love the murrays and canon tallis and all. i never sing the tallis canon with thinking of her too-cute families singing grace before every meal.

the idea of slashing her characters... it's perfect really. she was so into her universe - all her characters crossed over into other book universes and all. by the later stuff it's like she writing fanfic for her own stories. so of course there should be more. hmmm... maybe there should be a home for these ponderings... a community... hmm...

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Date: 2003-02-23 10:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blue_ant
I want, WANT to write Sandy/Dennys. I just don't know if I could.


My favorite of her book will always be Troubling a Star. Because Vicky is 15/16 in the book, and that was my age when I got the book.

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Date: 2003-02-24 11:45 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] phineasjones.livejournal.com
i can't remember that book very well... i think it came out while i was becoming disenchanted with her (i was 18/19 so that makes some sense).

yes, there needs to be some bunnying going on for them and various other murrys and austins.

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Date: 2003-02-24 12:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blue_ant
The book was published in 1994. I'd grown tired of her other stuff and had moved (really moved) into science fiction.

Something about the book just worked for me. It's not the greatest writing, but I don't know.


And yes, bunnies need start appearing.

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Date: 2003-02-24 11:43 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] phineasjones.livejournal.com
love that icon.

and i poked around at nostalgia. good stuff. we may still need a separate spot for in depth l'engle musings...

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Date: 2003-02-24 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancingrain.livejournal.com
Hmm, true esp. if you want to really go all-out on L'Engle. I think I'm with you on the bit about her later books practically being fanfics of her own work. But I just adore, adore them. I will always have a soft space in my heart for Charles Wallace, his mitochondria, and the tesseracts. yay.

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Date: 2003-02-23 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitsune13.livejournal.com
Love the books too, even when they annoy me -- and hello, Vicky is the biggest damn Mary Sue ever. And eee, Sandy/Dennys! SO. WRONG. Almost as wrong as Meg/Charles Wallace. *squashes bunnies*

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Date: 2003-02-24 11:39 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] phineasjones.livejournal.com
heheheheh. so wrong and yet... of course!

hey, dont' squash those bunnies! save the for the forthcoming community...

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Date: 2003-02-23 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lcsbanana.livejournal.com
sandy/dennys! YES! oh thank god I'm not the only one. *happy sigh* that book cover!!!

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Date: 2003-02-24 11:34 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] phineasjones.livejournal.com
oh, i know! that cover is hilarious... watch for a community soon... and thank [livejournal.com profile] sarahchica for bringing this up.

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