Sara saw Wrinkle in Time with a friend and was really disappointed.

And I finally watched Arrival, after seeing Jessica mention it, and wow. It was surprisingly moving and really kind of profound, I thought.

there was a new quote added to Mrs. Who, which I won't spoil, but my mother leaned over to say, "I got that reference!" and I womanfully did not say, "OK, Steve Rogers," because she would NOT have gotten that reference.

I love everything about this.

I need to go see Wrinkle so I can form my own opinion but I also need to do about a billion other things so I don't know when I'll fit that in. Did recently reread in preparation, and realized I had never read the rest of the series like for some reason I thought I had, so I read those too. So really should see the movie soon.

I need to go see Wrinkle so I can form my own opinion but I also need to do about a billion other things so I don't know when I'll fit that in. Did recently reread in preparation, and realized I had never read the rest of the series like for some reason I thought I had, so I read those too. So really should see the movie soon.

I've been reading the series to my son, and I was in a similar boat. I thought I had read the whole series when I was younger, but apparently I never made it past A Wind in the Door.

Reading them now, (we're on Many Waters) I'm of the firm opinion A Wrinkle in Time was the best in the series.

I imagine I should go see the movie at some point, but I haven't even had time to see Black Panther yet.

I don't think I ever reread Many Waters, because I found it super-weird. I loved the first three.

I wasn't into Many Waters when I started it, but by the end I really liked it. I think I'm bailing out of An Acceptable Time, though.

I only ever read A Wrinkle in Time. I didn't know the others existed. I loved it and it meant a lot to me as a kid, but I've not read it in decades and don't remember many details. I expect to be able to separate the movie from the book easily.

I think I'm bailing out of An Acceptable Time, though.

I super love the books about Polly, though I can't quite articulate why. (Although Zachary needs to die in all the fires.)

(As always, though, in every single fiction book, the dialogue is just weird. No one actually talks like the characters in Madeleine L'Engle's books do.)

A Wrinkle in Time was definitely the crown jewel, and I don't think that's just my tendency to like the first book/episode/movie I see of serial entertainment talking. I thought A Wind in the Door was a good read as well, but definitely found the returns to be diminishing by A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

Are the less science-fictiony related YA novels like A Ring of Endless Light any good?

I did not care for A Swiftly Tilting Planet at all, which was very disappointing to me as it's a great title and has an inviting cover.

Part of why I haven't gotten into An Acceptable Time is that there's clearly a bunch of Polly backstory I haven't read but getting into all that seems like Too Much. And I can't stand Zachary.

And I can't stand Zachary.

He is the ACTUAL WORST.