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Book Blog: Various
Jan. 4th, 2016 08:09 pmHaven't read another new book yet. I've read bits and pieces of some books I own, for instance, my 100-year memorial copy of Anne of Green Gables, (1908) which I know so well that I can open it anywhere and read a bit. The writing is so clear that sometimes it hardly seems its age. Only when you start thinking about the importance the writer puts on Christianity - and at the same time, the fact that two people (brother and sister, not a couple) could presumably adopt a child without ever seeing that child or her carers in advance.
That orphan asylum was portrayed as only too happy to pass on children to anyone, even someone who only sent a verbal message via someone else. I have no idea how accurate that is, but the book has been around for more than 100 years now and I've never heard anyone say it wasn't. I left the book this time at the point where Anne gives Mrs Lynde what for after that lady "twits" her for her looks and red hair. Loved that. Mrs Lynde never figured out that she was being played with that super-dramatic apology.
I moved on to a reread of Madeleine L'Engle's An Acceptable Time, part of the series featuring the Murry family; this time Meg's daughter Polly and her inadvertent involvement in a tesseract, which arises when a family friend opens a time gate to 3000 years in the past. Only L'Engle could make this seem so credible. It's been awhile since I read this one so I probably will finish before going on to something new. If I had remembered my library card when I went to the city today, this would not be the case, but I didn't and it is. This book is also quite absorbed in matters spiritual, but with a much wider scope than Anne. I just wish that L'Engle had seen fit to tell us what happened to Charles Wallace before she passed on! Nothing bad, I know that much, but no one in the books ever says!
That orphan asylum was portrayed as only too happy to pass on children to anyone, even someone who only sent a verbal message via someone else. I have no idea how accurate that is, but the book has been around for more than 100 years now and I've never heard anyone say it wasn't. I left the book this time at the point where Anne gives Mrs Lynde what for after that lady "twits" her for her looks and red hair. Loved that. Mrs Lynde never figured out that she was being played with that super-dramatic apology.
I moved on to a reread of Madeleine L'Engle's An Acceptable Time, part of the series featuring the Murry family; this time Meg's daughter Polly and her inadvertent involvement in a tesseract, which arises when a family friend opens a time gate to 3000 years in the past. Only L'Engle could make this seem so credible. It's been awhile since I read this one so I probably will finish before going on to something new. If I had remembered my library card when I went to the city today, this would not be the case, but I didn't and it is. This book is also quite absorbed in matters spiritual, but with a much wider scope than Anne. I just wish that L'Engle had seen fit to tell us what happened to Charles Wallace before she passed on! Nothing bad, I know that much, but no one in the books ever says!