Madeleine L'Engle

A Wind in the Door

Zachary Roberts

“ I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled.” 

“It’s beautiful,” Meg said defensively. 

She felt a rippling of his wings. “In the middle of your cities?”

“Well-no-but I don’t live in a city.” 

“I had the idea,” Proginoskes moved reluctantly within her mind, “that there are wars on your planet. People fighting, and killing each other.” 

“And people don’t understand each other.”

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Patrick Book

45% or more of this book is just the words "kything" and "farandolae" and "mitochondria" repeated over and over and I never want to see those words again.

Colleen

5 Stars
 
This series meant so much to me growing up. Rereading it as an adult has been both nostalgic and enjoyable. 

A Wind in the Door is a slightly different turn than A Wrinkle in Time. Both stories look at the state of humanity as well as the importance of each person’s action. Whereas the plot of the first book had a marco view, A Wind in the Door has to do with micro. Very micro. As in mitochondria. L’Engle was so great at weaving scientific theory into engaging stories. 


  “You and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”

This really challenged my perceptions when I first read it. Part of the story has to do with forgiving someone who has wronged you. And I won’t lie, my fourteen-year-old self was full of righteous indignation at the thought of just forgiving and forgetting. But Meg struggles with that same issue in A Wind in the Door. Good books make you think. They challenge your views. They can help you grow. And when all of that is wrapped up in a smart compelling story with magnetic characters, then you definitely have an amazing book on your hands.


RATING FACTORS:
Ease of Reading: 5 Stars
Writing Style: 5 Stars
Characters and Character Development: 5 Stars
Plot Structure and Development: 5 Stars
Level of Captivation: 5 Stars
Originality: 5 Stars

Connor 

Here is what I love about this book, about this series, about all the L'Engle books I have read: they are not longer than they need to be, they are not shorter than they ought to be, they are entirely sincere, and there is a peculiar gravity to them that grounds even the most magnificent and strange detail. They are full of love, and hope, and I find that even if I have not read them recently--until today I hadn't touched A Wind in the Door since middle school, perhaps, so at the very least 12 years or so--they still make me more aware of what a joy and gift it is to be alive, to be living.

Jennifer Ehle

Todd Luallen

Good book

I like adventure stories. It met all my requirements it had action and great characters and I really enjoyed the ending.

Tracie McMurray

Meredith Boster

Well.
This book was one of the hardest books to actually dive deep into and get to the point where I fully understood what was happening and what every one and everything in the book was doing. I began to read this on a plane to the Cayman Islands and I was thinking I would read it for relaxation purposes but I ended up getting more and more anxiety and stress filled as the book and plane ride went on because I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. It reminided me A LOT of Out Of The Silent Planet, which I read this past year for school, and I personally enjoyed that book just not as much as I thought I would (just like this book). Madeleine L'Engle is a super cool author and person, but if you are going to read this book I would recommend getting a piece of paper out and drawing a sort of "family tree" and a "book plot" diagram to keep everything straight :).

With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.

A wind in the door

Fraser Simons

Continues to be this weird-in-good-way mix of science and religion. I think when I was a kid and had a higher tolerance for religious themes and overtness, I’d have really been into this. Even still it’s interesting and I like the dynamics between the kids and at the attempt at embedding something of the author in the text. I’d much rather a book be about something then not, even if it’s got a pinch too much religion. I couldn’t handle Narnia at all, so this is much better than that at least, imo.

kezzie

I love this book, I love that we get to know what happens next in the story it is so interesting I love it!

Ana V. 

The first book takes us to the universe and other planets. This time Meg has to take a trip into a cell. Her brother is sick and she does her best to understand it and make it better. The writing is consistent with another unique plot. It's another way to see the world.

Ben Nathan

It's ok...just ok. I may or may not continue this series.

Heather Killeen

I forgot how strange this book is. I love that the setting for most of it is within Charles Wallace and the goal is to save his mitochondria, such a wonderful, nerdy, sciencey, premise! And I really like the message that all living things have a name, and deserve to be who they are, but somewhere along the way I got a little lost. There are so many exclamation points in this book, where a lot of people are yelling different things that are actually the same thing until you sort of just want things to wrap up already. I definitely enjoyed the extra characters in A Wrinkle in Time more, but I am still looking forward to rereading the rest of the series.

A Wind in the Door

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