Madeleine L’Engle is one of my favorite authors. Everything she writes encompasses thought, science, mathematics, God, space, time, emotions, relationships, concepts, ideaology, aging, growing, morals, ethics, you name it.
Books I’ve read by her: The Austins; Starfish; A Wrinkle in Time (the trilogy and it’s two sequels); The Summer of the Great Grandmother; A Circle of Quiet; The 24 Days Before Christmas; and others. Most recently I completed reading “Certain Women” (I know books should be underlined but I can’t find that tool on this blasted site!). I knew it to be fiction but didn’t preview long enough to realize it is a modern story of a family and their parallel to King David and his passle of wives and children!
I just completed a 5 novella set of books about 5 unlikely women of the bible (of which one was Bathsheba) by Francine Rivers and, so, I thought I was deviating away from biblical content for a bit by choosing a not-so-typical author. Ha! Fooled again, but ever so delightful.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who has ever stuck through the trials of being human in a family unit, and, as well, for those who have not! That should just about cover anyone! You will find yourself somewhere in this story, be it good or bad, matters not. It’s a bit challenging to read in that the author takes you at any given moment from the present to the past and into the future through the eyes of one central character living in the present but also working as an actress. So, not only are you, the reader required to keep up with timeline relevance, but, as well, with scene changes - from life to stage - and capture the relevance therein.
I loved it. Some probably won’t but that’s okay. Just don’t forget, someday you will probably read this book and, then, you will remember…I told you so!!!
I checked it out from the library - you can too!
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