What were you doing up at 2:44 a.m.?
I not only read Wrinkle in Time as a teenage and adult, but also read it to my children.

Didn't y'all read it in Band Books?

Yes, I read it again last year. I LOVE IT MORE THAN EVER.

Haven't read it yet. I'm sorry...

Jesse Davis! Oh Elise I hope you gave him a good tongue lashing! I didn't read it till the beginning o' my 20s I think... (not that I'm too far into them, but you know what I mean). But it's one of the most amazing books ever, I love it. I'll have to dig through my books and find out if there are any others from my past that had such life changing effects... but right now, I want a nap, although I don't have time for one. anyway time to go

Hand! Me! I grew up on Madeline L'Engle! I still love A Swiftly Tilting Planet best though--TIME TRAVEL AND UNICORNS HELLO!!!! Let me see--my childhood was shapped by so very many books--The Little House on the Prarie Books, The Chronicles of Pyrdain, the battered book of British History that my mom won as a prize at Sakeji, Rosemary Sutcliff's books, The Braken books, and so many others! I think I would go mad without books!
By the way, the yarn my mom posted was the GOOD yarn. The other stuff isn't that bad, but not what I had in mind. There was a terrible accident with a pot full of hot water, some foil, and the fact that I don't have six hands... If you come up tomorrow, I'll be dying again! Miss ya girl.

Do you remember when we all had to bite our tongues so as not to give Dr. Ellison a horrible lashing for not understanding the meaning of the book? Yeah....I love that book so much.

So a random book that I really loved reading when I was younger was The Silver Crown. I don't remember who it's by, but it's an adventure/sci-fi type (heavier on the adventure though) and all about this girl who wakes up one morning to find a silver crown, goes on a walk and when she comes back her house is destroyed along w/her family and that's all in the first chapter. But you don't have to take my word for it.

I read it awhile ago but i don't remember all of it i need to find it and read it again. and we never read any good books in grade school the only thing i even remember reading before high school is the Giver.

I love this girl(http://thenoisyplume.blogspot.com/) because she reminds me of you, if you were canadian and made silver jewelery. Go and read her blog, I'm sure you'll spend hours perusing it, as I have. Also, she has an etsy shop. I love etsy. It introduces me to fabulous people. Etsy and Blogger = wonderfully craft-a-licious people for me to stalk, I mean visit. ^_^

10 days without posting? Elise, I'm having withdrawals also, look: http://www.joyofsocks.com/limima.html

^_^

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my favorite book as a child was "Indian Captive"

it terrified and thrilled me in one go.

I do like Madeleine L'Engle's books and the way she used big words, like mitrochondria, which forced me to learn about blood cells and whatnot.

But her books never moved me half as much as Orson Scott Card did with that single book, Ender's Game. Man, it has so much power over you by the last chapter it's kind of scary...