March is here (and so is the sunshine — finally) so it’s time to announce my new pick for Be Loverly Book Club. So far this year, we’ve read historical fiction and a memoir, so this month we’re going in a new direction: fantasy/sci-fi. I’m usually a stickler for realistic fiction (Harry Potter is the obvious exception), but I’m trying to stretch my comfort zone in terms of what I choose to read.
This month, we will be reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Unlike many others, I never read the Wrinkle in Time series when I was younger (I was all about Ramona Quimby and Laura Ingalls back in the day), but when I worked at a bookstore in University, it was one that I put in the reading list part of my brain for our future kids. I’ll be honest that the main reason I was interested in the book is because of the movie that was released last weekend. As soon as I found out that Mindy Kaling was in it, I was on board. But because I consider myself a reader first, I knew I would have to read the book before I saw the movie.
For those unfamiliar with A Wrinkle in Time, here is the description:
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
You can buy your copy of A Wrinkle of Time here (also available in hardcover, e-book and audiobook).
I will post a review and host a discussion on Instagram for those interested at the end of the month.
Have you read A Wrinkle in Time? Will you be seeing the movie this month too?
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