Friday, September 4, 2009
Assignment 2, Nicolette Lovell
As an elementary school student, I loved all types of books but was particulary drawn to science fiction novels. My personal favorite that I've read too many times to count is Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Award winning work A Wrinkle In Time. I loved the idea of travelling through time and across the universe. I think that a good book draws one into the world it portrays, it offers an escape from life's complications and allows the reader to become the character that they identify with and come to know and love at the end of the story. For me, A Wrinkle In Time was a chance for me join Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace on their adventure to save Meg and Charles Wallace's father as they travelled by way of the tesseract away from earth and time. I also think that a good book stays with its reader, and is a story that they can carry with them for their entire life. A Wrinkle In Time is one of those special books for me and will remain on my bookshelf for the rest of my life.
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I have read a wrinkle in time about 400 times, like you i enjoy the ability to see the imagination and escape of a new world. Even if that world is fake,a chance to escape is good and she did a good job at helping me visualize what that world would look like.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that you like science fiction. It's such an incredible genre. A Wrinkle In Time is particularly great. I love space and stars and gas-giants and this book was one of the early ones that really fostered that passion. Ideas like IT, the 2-dimensional planet, and tesseracts were mind-melting as a little kid and still make me grin as a big kid.
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