Many thanks for all this info, which I'm noting. Alas, the books-to-be-read backlog is so intimidating (it's alarming to look at the relevant bookcases and realize there's more waiting there than I may be able to read ever) that it's going to be a while before I return to L'Engle. If, when that day dawns, I find I've lost my notes, you'll get pestered as a Tame Expert . . .
Somewhere I have a book about her work. If that surfaces, would you be interested?
And how much religion you can stomach.
That was very close to becoming a problem in The Young Unicorns -- not because of the theological content (as it were) but because L'Engle seemed to be using it as a sort of easy-option copout, as if an adequate explanation for a person's evil was an absence of godbothering. I also did find her pushing of goddishness a bit cloying.
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Many thanks for all this info, which I'm noting. Alas, the books-to-be-read backlog is so intimidating (it's alarming to look at the relevant bookcases and realize there's more waiting there than I may be able to read ever) that it's going to be a while before I return to L'Engle. If, when that day dawns, I find I've lost my notes, you'll get pestered as a Tame Expert . . .
Somewhere I have a book about her work. If that surfaces, would you be interested?
And how much religion you can stomach.
That was very close to becoming a problem in The Young Unicorns -- not because of the theological content (as it were) but because L'Engle seemed to be using it as a sort of easy-option copout, as if an adequate explanation for a person's evil was an absence of godbothering. I also did find her pushing of goddishness a bit cloying.