Wrinkle in Time book

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're not. I read the whole series and I didn't really care for any of them. Too weird. I loved other sci-fi and fantasy books, but not that one.

Try The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper instead.

Opposite here. Loved Wrinkle. Hated Susan Cooper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you reading it aloud? Not all great books are great read-alouds. I learned my lesson with "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"--should just have let my daughter read it and enjoy it on her own.

Wow. I am really interested to know why this book did not go over well out loud. This is one of the books I look or ward to reading to my kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you reading it aloud? Not all great books are great read-alouds. I learned my lesson with "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"--should just have let my daughter read it and enjoy it on her own.

Wow. I am really interested to know why this book did not go over well out loud. This is one of the books I look or ward to reading to my kids.

Well, maybe because I am not an expert narrator who records audiobooks! There may have been factors related to the writing style. But honestly, a book about kids ditching the parents and living on their own? Probably more fun for a kid to read on his/her own, not to be read by the boring old parents they dream of ditching.

[Anonymous]

I loved Wrinkle and the other two and read all three many many times. Especially A Wind in the Door.

[Anonymous]

OP, Get the June 2014 copy of Reader's Digest and see what the Editor wrote about this book.

You will be amazed at what she said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you reading it aloud? Not all great books are great read-alouds. I learned my lesson with "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"--should just have let my daughter read it and enjoy it on her own.

Wow. I am really interested to know why this book did not go over well out loud. This is one of the books I look or ward to reading to my kids.

Well, maybe because I am not an expert narrator who records audiobooks! There may have been factors related to the writing style. But honestly, a book about kids ditching the parents and living on their own? Probably more fun for a kid to read on his/her own, not to be read by the boring old parents they dream of ditching.

When you read, you unknowingly add your own inflection to the writing. Your child knows those tones and it will take away from the story because they'll be hearing your likes and dislikes. Highly imaginative books should be read alone so the child only has to compete with their own mind and not yours as the middleman.

[Anonymous]

I loved it as a kid, but hated her other books. My older DD hated AWIT when she read it in middle school.

I think I loved it because it was strange. And because I am a Daddy's girl.

[Anonymous]

I loved this book. I read it in 6th grade. With some books, you have to be the right age to read them. Too young, and you won't get it. Too old, and you won't be mystified by it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids? I loved it when I read it on my own. I was 6 and it was a wonderful escape.

That's nice, but what does a six-year-old have to escape from?

Literal much? I think the PP meant escaping into the imagination.

OP, I loved the first book. I thought the last two weren't as enjoyable.

Not necessarily. Children who read above their age level (the OP was announcing her precocity, which might have been what was really annoying the PP) sometimes do so because they need to imaginatively escape from the dysfunction that's around them.

(Sorry for the interruption, but I'd never heard this before and yet it describes me to a T!)

[Anonymous]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Wrinkle in Time as a kid. Meg and Charles Wallace!

[ThatSmileyFaceGuy]

I loved the first three (haven't read the 4th) and I saw that there is now a 5th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoa, I don't related to this at all. I loved A Wrinkle in Time the best, but I liked the other books in the series as well. Many Waters, a retelling of Noah's Ark with the twins was one of my favorites. I didn't find it too odd--it's a scifi book about a girl who is a bit of an outcast with brilliant but somewhat odd physicist parents. It's got a lot of fantasy in it, but it is also dark and creepy and interesting, and as a child spurred interest in physics, which I had previously dismissed as "too math-y." Anyway it's a lovely book.

I also disagree that From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler doesn't work when read aloud. We had an audiobook with an excellent narrator, and I loved listening to it, even though I had already read it.

This was my experience as well. But I was (and still am) a nerd. Science and religion fascinate me about equally. I was a Physics major in college before ending up a Religion major (yes, my parents are disappointed in me! ha!).

I think I first read Madeline L'Engle as a 6/7yo and I re-read them at least once a year well into adulthood. I can't wait until my kid can read them, he's a weird kid like me and I think he'll love them as well.

I may have to break them out this week to read to myself again.

[Anonymous]

Aunt Beast!

[Anonymous]

OP, try Meet the Austins by Madeline L'Engle.

The Austin family books are a little more accessible than the O'Keefes. There are a whole series featuring the Austins, they're not as 'out there'.

[Anonymous]

ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:I loved the first three (haven't read the 4th) and I saw that there is now a 5th

Many Waters isn't really connected to the original trilogy. I think they're being boxed together as more of a marketing tactic.