Anyone?

[mrs617]

Because singersdd and moredetails thought I should post again, I'll humor them.

The four books listed are ones that I picked up randomly at the library because mairesue said I should read Madeleine L'Engle...so which one should I take to read on the plane?

[Poll #618345]

I need to pack! :D

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[jmcphers.livejournal.com]

You might know this already, but A Wind in the Door is the sequel to A Wrinkle in Time. Incidentally, A Wrinkle in Time is the one you should read first, IMHO. It's one of her most imaginative (and most popular) works.

[ruthette.livejournal.com]

You should read A Wrinkle in Time first... then A Wind in the Door. THEN, if you liked the books as much as I did, you'll read Many Waters.

A good starting place for M. L'engle is A Ring of Endless Light. But I'm sure singersdd already mentioned that one to you... :)

[stbrigidsnovice.livejournal.com]

Yes! Go pack!

[singersdd.livejournal.com]

Good grief... I haven't read A Live Coal in the Sea or The Small Rain (obviously, I need to spend more time in the library!)

Start with A Wrinkle in Time, then A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, The Arm of the Starfish, The Young Unicorns, A Ring of Endless Light, Troubling a Star.

that's sort of the order they go in. Wrinkle, Wind and Planet are definitley one series. Many Waters is a spin-off of that one. Arm of the Starfish has 2 of the characters from the first series in it as grown-up parents and scientists and then characters from that book are in the Young Unicorns and Ring, then Troubling.

Confused yet?

And THEN you can read Certain Women, which is a "grown-up" book, using the story of David as a starting point to tell the story of an actor and all his many wives and children.

[melyndie.livejournal.com]

Whoops. I didn't mean to select any of her books. Ignore my vote.

I looooooooooooove Madeline L'Engle, but I don't recommend reading any of those four first. As others have send, Wind is book two in a quartet. And Troubling comes at the end of a long series of books, and it's one of L'Engle's worst books. I don't believe I've read the other two, but I know they're not among her bests.

I recommend starting with A Wrinkle in Time or one of the Austen family books. I can't remember which is the first among those. Meet the Austens maybe? I didn't read the Austen books in order because I didn't have access to all of them at once. My favorite among the Austen books is A Ring of Endless Light, and you can read it as stand-alone. I LOVE that book!