A Wind in the Door

This series is not just for children. In these books, Madeleine L'Engle gives us a chance to see the things that are unseen in our world, to understand what we could not possibly have comprehended and to love that which we could never have loved before.

I liked this one - I love the way that she reminds the characters that God not only knows all about us, but that He knows the name of each star in the universe... and each particle that exists anywhere, even within our own bodies.

I used to love this book so much. After this, the series gets a little dull. Mostly because Meg gets too old to do anything, so we see everything vicariously from Charles Wallace (aka A Swiftly Tilting Planet).

This is where I stopped with the series. I really liked this book though. It's a little weird, though, so don't worry if you find it hard to follow.

A Wind in the Door is the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time and features many of the same characters. I thought it was a good book, just a bit different from Wrinkle.

Definitely not A Wrinkle in Time. So little actually seems to happen in this book, but somehow deep affections are formed amongst characters that you don't really get to know that well. It's not bad, just not spectacular.

Madeleine L'Engle makes science interesting! She makes me believe that anything can happen and that people can change the world.

This 2nd book in L'Engle's series is my favorite by this author, and ranks in my top 10 all time favorites. I have re-read it as an adult and enjoyed it at least as much. I'm about to get it on audio so that I can listen to it on my iPod.

Eating these books up like candy, remembering where I was when I read them 20 years ago as a young teenager... it's like smelling baking cookies and being transported to your mothers kitchen and licking a chocolatey spoon.

I love this book... but then the Christian themes explored ever-so subtly here call to some of the ones that beat strongest in me. Another sci-fi marvel from L'Engle. Well worth the read.