nytimes.com — Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.
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baraqiyalSep 8, 2007
My favorite quote of hers came from when the "Wrinkle in Time" TV movie came out: "Did it meet expectations? Oh yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is was."
gameboyhippoSep 8, 2007
Ouch! Now I have to read the Wrinkle in Time book my wife bought me as an anniversary present. I hadn't read it yet due to the horribleness of the TV Movie. I should have known better.
vinnythekiddSep 8, 2007
Same here, along with A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Those books were one of the things that got me interested in science so young and were certainly what gave me a lifetime interest in relativity and quantum physics. We miss you Miss L'Engle!
happyhead7Sep 8, 2007
The point of being a christian is the ability to forgive and love your neighbors and enemies by using and following the example provide through Christ. Loving God and others trumps theological correctness or belonging to the correct religious group, or following religious laws and traditions. There is a difference in accepting the Bible as 100% truth vs accepting the Bible as 100% literal historical fact. There is no way to prove that the Bible is fact so why accept it as that? But by faith, you can through life experience and wisdom accept the truths and teachings as being directly from a gracious loving God.
stickfigure03Sep 8, 2007
We'll all miss you Madeleine!!! Your books are amazing and they give everyone excitement and joy.
kimb00Sep 10, 2007
You sparknoted a kids book?
sadams2911Sep 11, 2007
Now in my 50's, I vividly remember her works, "A Wrinkle in Time" just one of them. So many of us baby boomers are seeing the icons of our youth shuffle off this mortal coil. With Pavarotti gone, Jane Wyman...the list is long, indeed. It just reminds me that each of us are issued our death certificates at birth; the dates are just not filled in. Resquiescat in Pace; I'll remember you fondly.