…for those who came of age anytime during the past half-century, the most startling transformation occurred upon reading Madeleine L’Engle’s…classic, “A Wrinkle in Time,” which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. It was under L’Engle’s influence that we willed ourselves to be like Meg Murry, the awkward girl who suffered through flyaway hair, braces and glasses but who was also and to a much greater degree concerned with the extent of her own intelligence, the whereabouts of her missing scientist father, the looming threat of conformity and, ultimately, the fate of the universe.
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I loved this book given my awkward appearance and scientist father. And my M-name. And the fact that I wanted to travel though space and time.
(Source: thesmithian, via teachingliteracy)
