I unfortunately read the New Yorker's recent profile of L'Engle and wish I hadn't. I loved and love her writing - though not so much that I am completely uncritical of it. But I have this thing, such that knowing stuff about writers (or any artists) that is unflattering makes enjoying their work forever after difficult. I should really just make a point of knowing NO biographical information about artists whose work I like.

I was already worried about the movie from the description, but I'm going to watch it anyway :)

I knew all about it. Mind you, I didn't believe a word of it

My father is 6'6", and my mother is 5"5". When someone told me about sex when I was a kid, I didn't believe it because my parents wouldn't "fit".

Here's a list of "the greatest literature ever written" put together for Canadian book week. Perhaps they should have named it "the greatest *western* lit. ever written" since most is from North America or Western Europe (with a few exceptions).

Funny story- my book club picked Dr. Zhivago to read this year, I guess trying to balance out the fluffy stuff. We gave ourselves 2 months to read it (instead of the usual 1 mo.). Yeah. We ended up watching the movie.

Oh yeah- regarding "The Talk" I had a friend who's dad told her and her sisters that he and her mom didn't believe in sex before marriage. She was 17 and her sisters were older. They were like, "um, too late".

I've been rereading the Wrinkle in Time books lately, and I'm on the third one now, A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Damn, I forgot how cheesy this one is. Unicorns dancing with the wind? I mean, I'm enjoying it, but there are definitely some cringeworthy moments.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite. Cheesy, yes, but also... I dunno, it had something going for it that I liked. It was a long long time ago.

But then, I actually preferred the somewhat less fantastic Madeliene L'Engle books, like the Austins series (and those were crazy cheesy). And I loved how, eventually, I realized that all of her young adult books, including the Wrinkle in Time series, were all connected somehow, through characters that knew each other and other, similar, connections. But that's about all I remember.

And I loved how, eventually, I realized that all of her young adult books, including the Wrinkle in Time series, were all connected somehow, through characters that knew each other and other, similar, connections.

That actually extends to her adult fiction, as well; I mean, the YA characters and the characters in the adult fiction are also entertwined. Some of the characters in her adult fiction were children in the YA books, for instance.

The Stephen King-verse has the interconnected characters appearing briefly in each other's stories thing going, too. I rather like it.

The Stephen King-verse has the interconnected characters appearing briefly in each other's stories thing going, too.

Also, Faulkner, of course.

Also, Faulkner, of course.

And one odd, glancing mention in Peter Straub's Floating Dragon, of one of the characters from Ghost Story.