The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Next book on my adult fiction bookshelf for the Daily Book Excerpt: The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien As a child, I was never a Tolkien fanatic. I was a fanatic about other books - all of Madeleine L'Engle's "time" books,...
33 Names of Grace (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
I opened up Madeleine L'Engle's The Genesis Trilogy (from the And It Was Good portion, published first in 1983) just now to this paragraph: I still believe that atomic warfare can be prevented, as long as there are ten just men left in the world...One spring back in the fifties when the serious news commentators did not think it likely that we would make it through the summer without hostilities breaking...
DAVID ARCHULETA FAN BLAST (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
”The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” –Madeleine L’Engle When I heard David Archuleta sing during the San Diego auditions, I was, I realize now, irrevocably hooked for life. As I sang his praises to anyone who would listen, I was often on the receiving end of [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Who doesn’t dream of just one more book by their favorite author – a sequel to “Stuart Little” buried in E.B. White’s Maine barn, say, or news that Harper Lee has been sitting on a follow-up to “To Kill a Mockingbird” all these years? So a new novel by Newbery Award-winner Madeleine L’Engle is, by [...]
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Next book on my adult fiction shelves: Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor. Oh, Flannery, I love thee so. She's another one I came to late - I didn't have to read her in high school or college, which is how...
This Guy Falls Down (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Not favorite author as in "forget you C.S. Lewis! You too, Madeleine L'Engle! You suck - this guy is the man." I mean - add another author to my list of favorite authors. At any rate, his name is Haruki...
The Longstockings (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Kathryne and I love our Madeleine L’Engle, and last week she sent me this awesome review from Jezebel of one of my very favorite L’Engles. The whole review is great but it was this that really caught my attention: Don't buy into the party of unity: When it's comes to Madeleine L'Engle, you're either a Meg, Polly, or Vicky girl. (NO ONE is Camilla. And whatever, Maggies — you're deliberately being...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
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Delenda Est Carthago (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
In the wake of Arthur C. Clarke's death, I thought I'd list my favorite science fiction books. Yes, I started this post last week, but his death is still recent enough to make this relevant. So here they are, in chronological order! 1. Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut (1969). This is not only one of my favorite science fiction books, but one of my favorite books, period. It's very funny and very tragic,...
The Written Word (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Wouldn't it be nice if all stories started with Once Upon a Time? When I was a little girl, I remember my Mom reading me plenty of stories that started with those four simple words. Now that my own daughter is learning to read and write, it makes me smile each time she sits down to [...]
Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
other topics: click a “category” or use search box from a teacher’s handout; sheet says “Ohio Schools January/February 2008″. A great miscellany, but mixed as to reading levels. Charlotte’s Web… EB White Where the Wild Things Are… Maurice Sendak The Giving Tree… Shel Silverstein Green Eggs and Ham… Dr Seuss Good Night Moon… Margaret Wise Brown I Love You Forever… Robert N Munsch Because [...]
A United Methodist Emerging... (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Dear Loren: It was good to see you briefly at the Board of Ordained Ministry interviews today! Thanks for your comment here on the blog the other day. How far is too far, you asked, when I commented on Anne Rice's books Christ the Lord . How far is too far, when people "invent" incidents in Jesus' life that are not evidenced in scripture. Well, I guess the only answer I can give you is a subjective...
Karen Edmisten (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Anne-with-an-e discovered Madeleine L'Engle last year, and has been hooked. Yesterday, she wrote up this brief review of A Ring of Endless Light, so she's stepping in to blog today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Ring of Endless Light" is one of my favorite books! I've read it five times since I first found it at the library last summer, and since then, I have also read A Wrinkle in Time...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Speaking of Tor, they are giving advance copies of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother high school newspaper reviewers. The Dragon Page podcast-interviews John Joseph Adams , editor of Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse .[via Night Shade Books ] SciFi Weekly profiles John Varley (Rolling Thunder) and Edward Willett ( Marseguro ). Subterranean Press announced that there's a new novella coming from Mike...
Shapely Prose (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
In honor of Pippi: who were your kid's-book role models growing up? Who made you feel like you could do anything? Do you remember fat or unconventional-looking protagonists whose non-beautiful looks were portrayed in a positive (or at least neutral) light? On the flip side, who disappointed or hurt you? There’s some discussion on [...]
