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thesmithian: …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. more.

thesmithian:

…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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(Source: thesmithian, via teachingliteracy)

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    read these at the same time as/with my chemistry teacher, and she would wonder if we were kything (from later books),...
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    Madeleine L’Engle had such a huge impact on my childhood. I wish I still had all of her books. thesmithian:
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