{"id":51992,"date":"2015-07-30T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/a-wrinkle-in-time-remains-a-ya-book-from-my-youth-that-i-can-re-read.html"},"modified":"2015-07-30T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:08:29","slug":"a-wrinkle-in-time-remains-a-ya-book-from-my-youth-that-i-can-re-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/a-wrinkle-in-time-remains-a-ya-book-from-my-youth-that-i-can-re-read.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot; remains a YA book from my youth that I can re-read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I always felt the Who\/What\/Which bit was a bit cute, the rest of AWiT remains timeless to me in a way that so much of the SF\/F of my youth does not. <\/p>\n<p>In particular, the vivid imagery of Uber-Conformity on Camazotz (bounce, bounce, bounce) is etched irrevocably in my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Ms L&#39;Engle wrote some other fine work, but this one in particular is still stunningly powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/us\/go\/66705'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/iXv13_tTwBZcX7Y_HeGdcnfb_KSBpSaTcfsqmiQtjHrNQPIhI_rbKT3Jdp6VSfuTJB6PlBaEjzc6sPKb3gfdYnSnkDmVHcbPJiFd5I-rz01OIpz8=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/us\/go\/66705'>How &#8216;A Wrinkle in Time&#8217; Changed Sci-Fi Forever<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMadeleine L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s time-hopping heroine transported sci-fi into a new dimension.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/R166413QdsY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I always felt the Who\/What\/Which bit was a bit cute, the rest of AWiT remains timeless to me in a way that so much of the SF\/F of my youth does not. In particular, the vivid imagery of Uber-Conformity on Camazotz (bounce, bounce, bounce) is etched irrevocably in my brain. Ms L&#39;Engle wrote some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/a-wrinkle-in-time-remains-a-ya-book-from-my-youth-that-i-can-re-read.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot; remains a YA book from my youth that I can re-read&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129636,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/mapping-a-wrinkle-in-time.html","url_meta":{"origin":51992,"position":0},"title":"Mapping &quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Feb-16 3:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool. 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