“Why does anybody tell a story?” Ms. L’Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer.
“It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”
Madeleine L’Engle, author, poet, cathedral librarian, and theologian, died on Thursday at the age of 88. This next week will be Madeleine L’Engle Week at Semicolon. Come back for more information, book reviews, and quotations from one of the best authors of the twentieth century.
In the meantime, welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Now post a link here to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.
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Saturday Reviews: Alphabetical by Title. (an unfinished list)
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I reviewed a Civil War diary and an apple-related children’s book this week. Looking forward to your posts celebrating L’Engle’s life and work!
I finished my second book for the Saturday Review of Books Challenge, Persuasion, by Jane Austen. 🙂
I reviewed my favorite L’Engle book, Friends for the Journey, a book she wrote with Luci Shaw. The book itself is an offering of friendship, a glimpse into the inner workings of a rich and deep friendship between two lovely women.
The lump in my throat continues. I’ll be back for your posts next week. I will miss you, Ms. L’Engle.
I am a spree of reading classics. Re-reading a few too.
Oh, that’s sad about Madeline. Mine’s up
This week we submit a chat about “Library Lion” — we must be the last people on earth to review this book but we love it so much how could we resist?
Thanks Sherry,
Andrea
I did seven (!) reviews this week, catching up on my bookstack of reproach (thanks Book Moot!).
I was so saddened to hear about MLE’s death.
I reviewed Katherine Applegate’s free verse novel “Home of the Brave.”
I’ve always enjoyed the Saturday Review of Books, and I am finally able to participate!
I don’t post reviews, though. Just thoughts, quotes and links about my reading that I know I will want to come back to in the future.
Crissy
I’m back, after a deplorable absence. Glad to see that the Semicolon Saturday Review of Books is still going strong.
Madeline L’Eengle died?! Wow… I didn’t know that!