Where Is Your Bookmark? (A Peek Into A Wrinkle in Time & My Best/Worst March Reads)

I will likely be finishing A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle before the day is out--or at the latest, this weekend. Even with a house full of company. I will find a way. Somehow. I am so close! This is actually a re-read for me, although it's been so long since I last read it, it might as well count as the first time. It is one of my husband's childhood favorites, and I quite enjoyed it too (even if I liked The Wind on the Door better).

A weekly meme where readers share the first sentence of the book they are reading and say what they think. Hosted by the wonderful Gillion Dumas of Rose City Reader.

It was a dark and stormy night.

In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraith-like shadows that raced along the ground.  

My thoughts: Such a famous first line, and one I imagine most have heard of before even if you might not have known where it came from. I love this opening. I can just picture it in my mind and feel the storm building outside.

A weekly meme in which readers share a random sentence or two from page 56 or 56% of the book they are reading. Hosted by the wonderful Freda of Freda's Voice.

The trees were lashed into a violent frenzy. Meg screamed and clutched at Calvin, and Mrs. Which's authoritative voice called out, "Qquiett, chilldd!"

Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle? There was still the sound of leaves, a terrified, terrifying rushing. All light was gone. Darkness was complete.Suddenly the wind was gone, and all sound.  [page 56]

My thoughts: You would almost think that page 56 is close to the beginning of the book, the way the theme of the storm has continued to this point, wouldn't you? I assure you though, much has happened, and something even bigger is about to occur. Can't you just feel it coming reading this passage?


What do you think? Have you read this childhood Classic? Does this sound like something you would be interested in reading? 

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Everyone has a favorite and then we also have something we dislike. Like a coin, there are two sides to every question. Each week, Carrie at The Butterfly Reads and Laura from Blue Eye Books ask participants to list what they like and don't like about that week's topic.

This week's topic is Best/Worst Read in March.

While I still found it entertaining, Ashlyn Chase's Hooked on a Phoenix didn't quite work for me when all was said and done.

On the other hand, my favorite read of the month was The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez. It was an emotional and poignant novel about two immigrant families in the United States.

What was your favorite and least favorite books read in March? 

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