{"id":12502,"date":"2009-11-02T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/02\/12502.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:50","slug":"book-report-a-wrinkle-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/11\/02\/book-report-a-wrinkle-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: A Wrinkle in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looks like I hadn&#8217;t reread <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/teachers\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780440498056\">A Wrinkle in Time<\/a> for several years. That doesn&#8217;t really surprise me, actually. It&#8217;s one of the books that I liked a lot as a kid (around eight or nine, I think), and liked a lot again as a teenager, but haven&#8217;t felt the need to reread. And rereading it, like I did a month or so ago, doesn&#8217;t bring me back to the way I felt when I was young. I am more critical, less engaged.\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of odd, though, that as I have become more interested in religion, I have become less susceptible to Madeleine L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s writing. I mean, she writes from a very specific religious point of view, and one that I have a lot of sympathy with, in general. She uses Scripture in her writing as a touchpoint, more (I think) than any other specfic writer I like. And yet, I am not hooked.\n<p>Or, rather, I am hooked only in memory. It&#8217;s like reading a ghost of a story: when they start with the square root of two, or deciding to call the alien Aunt Beast, I feel the memory of being entranced without feeling entranced. It&#8217;s not one of those one where I wonder what I was thinking when I liked it, or one of the ones where I can easily spot the mechanisms that made it work and that now annoy me. It&#8217;s not the book equivalent of pixifoods, either. I don&#8217;t know.\n<p>And it&#8217;s possible, of course, that it just hit me at the wrong time, and that I would enjoy the book if I read it again in a couple of years. I doubt I will, though. I might, on the other hand, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeleinelengle.com\/books\/windInTheDoor.htm\">A Wind in the Door<\/a> again; it was my favorite, anyway.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger can&#8217;t go home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18911,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions\/18911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}