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Old 02-12-2022, 06:11 PM   #30529
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I’m not surprised to learn that this one’s showing its age. 60 years! And L’Engle was a devout Episcopalian and religion played a part in all her books. I liked it as a girl, but I suspect I’d be hard-pressed to find much enjoyable about it now. At that, I think I didn’t care for the sequels even at the time.
It's one of those well known books that I don't think I'd ever read, so I wanted to see what it was about. The opening raised my hopes for it, I thought all the kids showed great promise as characters, and even the "witches" at first, but things went downhill fairly fast after that. I don't know what I'd have made of it as a child; I liked the Narnia books well enough.
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