L'Engle time...

[kjpepper]

Methinks it is time to reread the Time Quartet, especially A Wind in the Door, which has always been my favorite of that particular saga. It's funny, I've read the whole thing through many times since I was a kid... more often A Wrinkle in Time and Wind because I got them more when I was younger, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters kinda just went mostly over my head with its biblical babble, though the last time I read through the series I quite enjoyed them. I however always come back to A Wind in the Door more often than the others, mainly because the concept of Teachers, Namers and Echthroi always resonated deeply with me. Especially Namers, how their job is to not only know and love people, things and other parts of what we'll call for the sake of the point Creation, but to help them be more themselves in the face of forces that would confuse and work against that. That concept is about the closest anything's ever come to describing what I feel my purpose in this world really is... and every so often I need the reminder.

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[lostcircuit.livejournal.com]

I have them all if you need to borrow any - but you sound like you probably have them all too! Of course you know what drives me insane is that I could never find them all in the same edition - they're different cover art, binding, shapes and sizes. AHHHH! ...anyway

[purpura.livejournal.com]

Funny, I've never thought of them as a quartet. To me it was a trilogy, with Many Waters being a continuation of the characters.

And I feel the same way about them, except A Swiftly Tilting Planet is mine. Charles Wallace. The second character in a book I fell in love with. I just wasn't going to name my child Edmund (I hate "Ed" as a nickname).

[kshandra]

dafydd Named me one night in IRC. (He was the one to introduce me to the books, as I'd somehow managed to miss them in childhood....) I think it may have been more important to me than the first time he told me he loved me.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

we may be missing Planet. I'll let you know.

and yeah, we have the same problem re different editions, bindings, etc. My reason for that was cause both my copies of Wind and Wrinkle were gifts, and since I've been lugging them around since I was... eight? I can't bear to part with them in favor of editions that match.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

:D okay, that's cool, I didn't realize Charlie was named for Charles Wallace.

I thought the same way actually until recently, but only because Many Waters came out long after I'd read the first three. Like I remember it was a Big Deal.

[purpura.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say named after... so much as one of the contributing factors in my choice of the name. There was also this boy I lurved in High School named Charlie.

I never got him, but I did get a Charlie. I just loved Charles Wallace.

And if they are packaging them now as a quartet... well, I'll take that with the same grain of salt that the order the Narnia books are being published in now.

I actually bought another copy of the boxed set of Narnia Just so I would have another copy in the right order for when my (at the time hypothetical/eventual) child wanted their own copies. And in the right order!

Of course this means I'll have to find another set if I have another kid...

[lostcircuit.livejournal.com]

My only excuse was that they never had the same ones in stock at the Barnes and Noble, which I guess I thought was the only bookstore ever. If only I had known to go elsewhere. And when I was 9, we did not know of the intarnets shopping...

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

I have a similar problem with the Tripod Trilogy... now Quartet. They were a trilogy when I read them and then a prequel to the series was published and is now boxed as the first book... Seems wrong to me, thought chronologically it makes sense. I guess it all depends on when you read them.

Good gods, the Tripod Trilogy... I need to reread those again too!

[pookajuice.livejournal.com]

I LOVED Wind. It taught me about cellular biology.

[sundart.livejournal.com]

I have those in my room when you're ready.