A Wrinkle in Time

Last night I finished reading book number one of 2009, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It’s a kids’ book, so there’s no way I’m going to keep up this kind of pace, but it feels good to already be chipping away at my goals for the year.

A Wrinkle in Time is about two kids whose scientist father goes missing and they end up having to travel through space and time to other planets (with a few friends in tow) to find him.

I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to quantum physics and Einsteiny things, so a book that promised time/space travel that was pseudo-accurate was an immediate plus.

I was a little underwhelmed by the depth of the story as a whole, how easily things were explained away and how quickly the story line was pushed forward. But I had to keep in mind that this is a kids’ story that I should have read ten years ago, so to improve those things it would have added another 100 pages to the book.

There was also the issue of L’Engle blatantly inserting Bible verses as explanations for some things, which was a bit awkward and out of place. It could have been done a lot more smoothly.

Overall, though, it was worth the read. On to the next book!