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    wafflesfriendsworkKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 10:57am

    Really need to reread this—I remember it blowing my mind when I was about ten years old. So friggen great.

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      Whiskeyprayerwafflesfriendswork
      2/24/16 11:04am


      Read A Wind in the Door too, if you didn’t get a chance before.

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      randilynisFINDILYNwafflesfriendswork
      2/24/16 11:09am

      I bought a set of Madeleine L’Engle books for my niece. She’s still a little young so i haven’t gifted them yet. I’ve been very very tempted to open the package. (I know, I could just buy my own)

      I did recently read her copy of Phantom Tollbooth though.

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    ISpeakJiveKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:05am

    1) This is one of my MOST favorite books of all time, and can’t wait to see it!

    2) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT RUIN THIS BOOK LIKE THE GOLDEN COMPASS.

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      maia culpaISpeakJive
      2/24/16 11:19am

      Had forgotten what a hatchet job The Golden Compass was until you mentioned it :(

      I think I read somewhere that Ava insists on full creative control over her projects, (which is why she didn’t do Black Panther) so hopefully that won’t happen. Its going to be tough to get Meg right onscreen without making her seem too pathetic...

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      ValiexiISpeakJive
      2/24/16 11:30am

      Have you heard BBC is making a miniseries adaptation of The Golden Compass? Prayers that it is better than the godawful movie.

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    randymanKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:39am

    I have such high hopes for this! Wrinkle was the first book I ever asked for a copy of my own; I received it for Christmas when I was in the third grade. The classic blue cover, with the gold Newberry Award seal. Wish I still had it.

    It was just a few years ago – over 50 years later – that I had one of the biggest shocks of my life, when I read (I believe that someone was talking about the delays in getting a movie made) that Wrinkle was considered a “girl’s book” – and by implication, less “marketable.”

    I was stupefied; I experienced it as an amazing story, and it never occurred to me for an instant to categorize it by gender.

    Why would anyone think that? Because the protagonist (Meg) was a young woman? Because love was mentioned at a crucial moment in the story? Because it didn’t contain idiots running around with guns blazing?

    I’ll never forget the image of a street full of identical houses (and more) in Camazotz… still one of the most spine-tinglingly horrifying sequences I’ve ever experienced.

    Just one more little thing… years ago, I had a friend whose family once lived in a New York brownstone that was previously occupied by Madeline L’Engle. He said that the kitchen cabinets had been painstakingly detailed with hand-painted fantasy elements, such as twined vines and other things I can’t remember.

    Madeline L’Engle’s kitchen… how cool would that be? I think this movie will be wonderful.

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      Kelly Fairclothrandyman
      2/25/16 9:30am

      Just one more little thing… years ago, I had a friend whose family once lived in a New York brownstone that was previously occupied by Madeline L’Engle. He said that the kitchen cabinets had been painstakingly detailed with hand-painted fantasy elements, such as twined vines and other things I can’t remember.

      I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

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      olivianewtonjohnrandyman
      2/25/16 9:47am

      My husband is a writer of children’s fantasy fiction. If the protaganist is a girl, it’s considered a “girl’s book.” Girls will read books featuring boys or girls. Boys are usually only attracted to books featuring a male protaganist. This is the reasons that is still used in the book biz to this day...

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    olivianewtonjohnKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 10:57am

    OHMIGOD! I am so excited about this. I adored this book when I was a kid and am psyched DuVernay is directing.

    Am I misremembering, but does Wrinkle have a scene between the mom and the dad at the beginning where they make love to console each other after the loss of an uncle (or other relative)?

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      randilynisFINDILYNolivianewtonjohn
      2/24/16 10:59am

      I am literally JUMPING UP AND DOWN in my chair.

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      Whiskeyprayerolivianewtonjohn
      2/24/16 11:02am

      I think that was A Ring of Endless Light.

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    evilsciencechickKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 10:58am

    *EXCITEMENT FLAIL!*

    I loved these books! I devoured them as a kid, and read them over and over again! And I’ve recently forced...er...convinced my boyfriends 12 year old son to read this book for his monthly book report. I’m like a religious zealot, only for awesome books.

    Please oh PLEASE let this movie not suck!

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      quagmireevilsciencechick
      2/24/16 11:13am

      I’m pregnant right now, and I have a list of books I’m excited to introduce to my future child - so far the list is A Wrinkle in Time (and the sequels, and everything by Madeline L’Engle), Harry Potter, and The Giver (and possibly the sequels, and everything by Lois Lowry).

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      wafflesfriendsworkquagmire
      2/24/16 11:17am

      I said upthread that one of the things I’m most excited about my sister/best friend/me having children someday is to be able to introduce them to so many amazing books I loved as a kid!

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    randilynisFINDILYNKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:00am
    a detail that’s stuck with me for nigh on 20 years.

    The delicious looking food (turkey dinner, I think) tasting like sand is that little detail for me.

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      BusPassTrollop curls up and diesrandilynisFINDILYN
      2/24/16 11:09am

      YES!!!!!!!!

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      1llamarampage will write againrandilynisFINDILYN
      2/24/16 11:31am

      For me it’s the creatures without eyes that they meet thinking that sight must be so limiting, once it’s described to them.

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    KateFaceKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:50am

    Am I the only one who read Many Waters, featuring the twins Sandy and Dennis, who end up in Biblical pre-flood times? Because I loved that book and would love to see that eventually get an adaptation as well.

    I also had a huge crush on the twins, probably because on the cover art they looked like uber-90s cute boy Shane McDermott (pictured here with Seth Green in Airborne).

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      JhaminKateFace
      2/24/16 12:02pm

      While the guys on the cover art were not my preferred gender for a crush, I did *LOVE* that book. It may be my 2nd favorite of the series.

      There is the moment they figure out where they are, know what is coming, and realize they already know who makes it and who *doesn’t* is kind of crushing.

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      AgingHipsterKateFace
      2/24/16 12:04pm

      Read it. Loved it! I read all her books.

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    Global BeetKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:06am

    I wonder if the actor who played that one bad guy in star wars episode 4 (the one who said he wouldn’t leave the death star in our moment of triumph) posed as the disembodied head for the Wrinkle in Time cover.

    Also it’s crazy how i forget books i read when i was kid. I definitely read this when i was little but the only thing i remember is a passage about dirty dishes in the sink. I reread the Three Musketeers a couple years ago even though i read the book when i was in like 2nd grade. Same for the Golden Compass.

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      Akat101Global Beet
      2/24/16 11:21am

      Tarkin? It certainly looks like him. Good call.

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      The_Snark_KnightAkat101
      2/24/16 3:13pm

      I have this book and can now never unsee this.

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    Mitch ConnorKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:18am

    I think I might have been the only kid on the planet who hated this book.

    That said, I love tapping DuVernay for a sci-fi fantasy. This will be awesome on screen, and I hope they figure out how to market it, ‘cause The Giver kinda came and went.

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      LostAnotherBurnerPasswordMitch Connor
      2/24/16 11:30am

      You are not alone. I hated this book! I still do! It’s AWFUL and while I don’t believe in forbidding books, I will not encourage any hypothetical future children of mine to read it.

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      Mitch ConnorLostAnotherBurnerPassword
      2/24/16 12:41pm

      Heh, I did like it up to the ending, which I remember disappointing me. 8 or 9 year old me was like, “Love? That’s it? Fucking really? Psht.”

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    BusPassTrollop curls up and diesKelly Faircloth
    2/24/16 11:09am
    GIF
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      beeYou!tiful_dreamerBusPassTrollop curls up and dies
      2/24/16 3:21pm

      Best response here!! I am out-of-control excited for this!!!

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