Publisher's Weekly is reporting that Madeline L'Engle has died.
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You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Dana - Sep 07, 2007 7:35:34 am PDT #3822 of 28212
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi - Sep 07, 2007 7:36:10 am PDT #3823 of 28212
Art Crawl!!!
Oh no!
flea - Sep 07, 2007 7:51:08 am PDT #3824 of 28212
information libertarian
Oddly, Wikipedia has her death date listed as 8/31/07, with no citation, and AP/NYT doesn't list anything.
I loved many of her books. If you haven't read the 2004 New Yorker profile of her and you love her books, don't ever read it. Unless you can successfully detach knowing about the writer from enjoying the writing (I can't.)
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2007 7:52:56 am PDT #3825 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, now I need to know, flea. Dish. Whitefont if necessary.
Liese S. - Sep 07, 2007 7:55:29 am PDT #3826 of 28212
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh!
I just went in to cry to the SO. Madeline L'engle had a huge influence on my life. She significantly altered some of my inherited views and challenged me to think through some others. I am more tolerant today because of her.
When I was a little girl, I used to rush to the library to get her newest book. It was my first experience with reading the works of a living, breathing, creating author.
The mother of one of my friends is a great author herself, and was in a writing group with her. I always intended to write Madeline a thank-you letter and send it through her, but I never did. I regret that.
Steph L. - Sep 07, 2007 7:57:18 am PDT #3827 of 28212
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Madeline L'engle had a huge influence on my life. She significantly altered some of my inherited views and challenged me to think through some others.
Oh, me too! She's one of my top 5 favorite authors.
Man. That breaks my heart.
flea - Sep 07, 2007 7:58:00 am PDT #3828 of 28212
information libertarian
Nothing terribly shocking or specifically horrifying, ita. Just didn't come across as a nice person, a person who respected her family's privacy, especially. Her children hated her books, and felt she lied in her memoirs. Her son died at 45 or so of alcoholism and she never admitted it. That sort of thing.
I was kind of devastated.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2007 8:05:44 am PDT #3829 of 28212
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, flea. Huh. That's very...real. Mundane. You expect both more and less from people who make it into or near the private eye.
DavidS - Sep 07, 2007 8:23:54 am PDT #3830 of 28212
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I saw her speak at my college. She was tall and sort of like a creaky old dragon. She talked a lot about her faith which surprised me.
But like several others here, her books had a big impact on me.
Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2007 8:27:49 am PDT #3831 of 28212
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I remember reading the first three books of the Time Quintet, as they seem to be called now (I didn't even know there were two other books) when I was in elementary school, probably. I liked A Wrinkle in Time but remember almost nothing about it now, but I recall being very confused by the other two books, which seemed to be for an older audience. I don't think I understood how Meg could be pregnant, or what that really meant.