tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post1514820540186613067..comments2024-03-20T06:08:51.320-04:00Comments on roosje: {little rose}: Reflections on writers, truth and storieselizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-9395604767349989022012-12-14T08:45:33.675-05:002012-12-14T08:45:33.675-05:00Mat Anna - yes, agreed - this in a lot of ways sum...Mat Anna - yes, agreed - this in a lot of ways summarizes what I was saying or trying to say here! :)elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-80486977051798523022012-12-13T21:35:42.286-05:002012-12-13T21:35:42.286-05:00What you wrote about Madeleine L'Engle is very...What you wrote about Madeleine L'Engle is very true. I grew up reading her younger fiction and moved on to older fiction and non-fiction (including the autobiographical works). I just feel like you have to read carefully and not blindly. However mistaken she was about a lot of things, I think she was doing well with what she had. I too have wished many times that she had come to know Orthodoxy. (I met her once at Sewanee where I went to college and she autographed one of my dog-eared children's books.)Matushka Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10522097149212770814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-55833775759988914012012-12-13T21:03:09.047-05:002012-12-13T21:03:09.047-05:00"I once told a friend that once the teen year..."I once told a friend that once the teen years are done<br />the journey of forgiveness must begin;<br /> trying to make sense of our bringing up years<br />no matter how good our parents are<br />and let me tell you I have good ones<br />one needs to go through a process of forgiveness,<br />of making sense of one's early years<br />for the world does not deal lightly with any of us."<br /><br />This is very wise, because it is very true. :)Donna Witekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09609991179829134157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-1935678989350002242012-12-13T19:25:37.360-05:002012-12-13T19:25:37.360-05:00Thank you for this, Elizabeth. I have read her jou...Thank you for this, Elizabeth. I have read her journals and quite a bit of biographical material in the last few years. I'll keep your comments in mind when I go back to her fiction.E Helena Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15872178020249275139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-44471193557767282602012-12-13T11:41:18.752-05:002012-12-13T11:41:18.752-05:00Anna - I emailed you, FYI.Anna - I emailed you, FYI.elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-30437241462755720462012-12-13T11:36:24.938-05:002012-12-13T11:36:24.938-05:00Anna - I agree! I will email you the article.. I ...Anna - I agree! I will email you the article.. I found it via your link the other day... elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-46899970651659057892012-12-13T11:34:14.184-05:002012-12-13T11:34:14.184-05:00Maybe the article's author confused Crosswicks...Maybe the article's author confused Crosswicks, the place in New Jersey, with Crosswicks, Madeleine L'Engle's house in Connecticut. Lazy mistake if so! What was the article?<br /><br />I agree with you about needing to read Madeleine L'Engle carefully - and I don't feel I have to agree with everything she writes or take it as academic or 'received' theology. She would certainly not have made a claim to be any kind of formal theologian! I think she is pretty clear about her ideas being exactly that, not more or less, and I think she would hope that her ideas were not simply swallowed whole by anybody, but prompted (or provoked) readers into developing their own ideas and finding out more. All the above is also true of e.g. CS Lewis.Peacocks and Sunflowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915384347467690635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-33370975223511656422012-12-13T09:47:43.596-05:002012-12-13T09:47:43.596-05:00There are a few books of her YA books that I would...There are a few books of her YA books that I would be esp. careful for - some are not for the young readers - feel free to email or FB me for more info on this - I've read her fairly extensively and can give you a quick run-down. <br /><br />Have not read Ayn Rand, but know that her ideas, well, are not let's say... Orthodox... <br /><br />Books, that said, sure are a blessing to us! Just need to have our wits about us...elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18568699.post-52703737083715361912012-12-13T09:44:32.937-05:002012-12-13T09:44:32.937-05:00My 11 year old daughter has read several book by M...My 11 year old daughter has read several book by Madeline L'Engel, and I hope that is well. I haven't read her recently and only remember reading "A Wrinkle in Time," in my youth and how that kind of fiction was so new to me. How awesome that you heard her speak! I think that reading Ayn Rand's novels are similar, you have to be careful, there are many good things that they write but much that needs to be forgotten!Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411789923271959623noreply@blogger.com