An Acceptable
Time by Madeleine L'Engle is another great story to finish the
series started in A Wrinkle in Time. This is the fifth and
final book in the series.
I'm not entirely
sure what the title means as it pertains to the story. I have my own
ideas, of course, but the Bishop in the story said the phrase and I
didn't really understand his meaning.
This is another
great story about time travel. I like the way L'Engle handles time,
again, though I'm not entirely sure if the main characters return
only moments after they've left or much later. That isn't clarified
in the ending of the story.
In this story, Meg's
daughter travels back in time with another couple people from her own
time. One of whom is seriously unwell in body and mind. I think, in
large part, the story is really about him and that, though not stated
overtly, he is much like Charles Wallace in A Wind in the Door.
It's really interesting that the twins, Charles Wallace, and Meg are
all absent in form, though not in spirit.
My eldest daughter
has yet to read this one, but I'm sure she will love it because her
reactions to the previous five have been in line with my own and I
thoroughly enjoyed this one. I (and probably we) highly recommend
this book to all readers.
Have you read An
Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle? What did you think of it?
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