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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, a companion to the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg--grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything"--goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all.
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TheBookHippie
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🕊☮️✌🏻

curiouserandcurioser @TheBookHippie love Madeleine L'Engle💜 2y
TheBookHippie @curiouserandcurioser me too ! Such lovely memories of reading her as a child. 2y
curiouserandcurioser @TheBookHippie Me, too! I read them over and over again! I still have my well worn copies:) 2y
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bookishbitch
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Another one for my ASTP collection. This copy was previously a library book in what looks like a Catholic school. It even still has the old style card check out pocket in the back with names on the inserted card. Thanks ebay!

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bookishbitch
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I might have decided to buy multiple versions of a favorite book of mine. This is the one I read as a teen. Ebay is dangerous is all I'm saying.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Eggs Gorgeous 🧡🐎❤️ 3y
Amabear Oooo is this one good? 3y
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leah152 Always wanted to try Madeleine l'Engle 3y
Chittavrtti Proginoskes!! 3y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Chittavrtti When I was in elementary school, on Dress Up as Your Favorite Character day, I went as Proginoskes as he appears on the cover of A Wind in the Door. I wore poster board on my front and back held with string over my shoulders and both were just covered with eyes and wings. I am sure not a single person had any idea who I was. 3y
Chittavrtti What a great costume. Even if no one knew I‘m sure it inspired curiosity:) 3y
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Nelnjali
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3.5🌟 What an odd, fascinating book this is. In some ways, I actually enjoyed it a bit more than the first two, but the pacing overall drug just a bit in a few spots. I did find the concept of all things that have happened and will happen having an effect on the present to be interesting and well done in this tale. ⬇️

Nelnjali I still find it odd, however, that while the books are about the same family, other than a few small things, it is as if the other two books never happened. It was especially vexing in this one, since the father wanted to doubt Charles's abilities when in the first he had already witnessed them. ⬇️ 3y
Nelnjali I'm happy that I am reading this series and love the themes of peace and harmony mixed with scientific and spiritual thought, but in many ways, I feel like these books are trying too hard to be poignant. 3y
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freeatlast1137
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Mehso-so

Uhh, Meg and Charles travel through time to save the world. Very convoluted story.

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Lf196117
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“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way”. This quote was very interesting to me because it‘s true. Every child is different just like every story. If I read this to a class, I would probably stop here and pause and ask the students what they thought of this quote.

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Lf196117
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I don‘t know if I would ever read this book to a class. If I did, I would‘ve needed to read the previous book in the trilogy for them to understand what is happening. Maybe my students could have a book club where they read the previous books and then read this book.

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Lf196117
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New Fantasy Books - Whole Book
This book is about a 15 year old boy Charles Wallace meeting Gaudior, a time traveling unicorn. Together, they go back to the past to try to find the might have been or known as a moment that could‘ve changed the entire present and future of the earth. I‘ve never read the other Time Trilogy books so I was very confused. It was disappointing to never see Mad Dog‘s character actually is never seen by Charles Wallace.

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maddyhensley
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“Gradually, the Wind people began to accept him as one of themselves, to forget his outer differences.”

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maddyhensley
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I thought it was interesting how Charles and the Gaudior traveled into the past of the winds to find a specific moment in the past.

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maddyhensley
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Pickpick

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L‘engle published in 1978 demonstrates the use of Modern Fantasy very well. There are many characters such as the Gaudior, unicorn, and time traveler.

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Darklunarose
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Mehso-so

Admittedly this has been the hardest book in the series to read so far. I think having the characters so much older then in the first two books put me off a fair bit to be honest. Especially with Meg now married and oregnant.

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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyMar19 Day 2: #rhyme and space, clime and blue. This book, alongside the whole Wrinkle in Time quintet, shall always hold a special place in my heart.

lynneamch Likewise. Beautiful choice. 🌎 5y
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Aseleener
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The best way to spend a snow day Saturday. ❤ #catsoflitsy

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bookishbitch
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My new Christmas ornament. I was going to call him Gaudior but then realized he didn't have the wings.

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Ke633
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Finished this one tonight. I love this series!

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DarcysMom
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Pickpick

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Darcy also gave it 5 stars - she has been talking about bits of the story since she got up this morning. #raisingareader

JennyM The beauty of reading with your kids. I love it x 6y
cathysaid As a former teacher, I observed that as a society we underestimate kids quite often! 6y
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CSeydel
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“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man‘s heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”

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BarbaraJean
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This was another re-read via audiobook for me, and I found that I remembered very little of this one, either! Apparently of the three, only Wrinkle in Time really stayed with me. I liked this one a lot more than Wind in the Door, although the “kything” interludes felt a bit forced. I did really enjoy following the storyline as it traveled through each historical period. Still—Wrinkle in Time remains the superior book as far as this trilogy goes!

Arcana I know I read all three of these books as a preteen, but the only one I remember is A Wrinkle in Time. I‘m really not sure why this is, but there are too many books in my TBR pile to be rereading books that left no impression. 6y
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BarbaraJean
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You know it‘s Monday when you arrive at work having allllllmost finished your audiobook, but not quite. Now I have to find a 15-minute task I can do while listening... because I can‘t just leave that 15 minutes till the end of the day!

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CSeydel
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Listening to this one now. I do find Madeleine L‘Engle so irritating in places because she‘s clearly enamored of the *idea* of science, without bothering too much about what doing science really looks like. Nobody wins a Nobel Prize by puttering around in their garage. Nobody cooks their dinner over the Bunsen burner in the garage-laboratory — it would contaminate the experiment and the dinner. Plus it would take forever.

saresmoore Hahaha! Excellent points. These are things I didn‘t think about when reading, except maybe to the point of, “Wow, the parents in this book are really disorganized and kind of oblivious.” 6y
CSeydel @saresmoore I‘m prepared to acknowledge that I‘m taking it way too literally. L‘Engle is considerably more fanciful than I am, and that‘s not a bad thing. 6y
BarbaraJean 😂I just started a re-read of this today, and was pondering the whole stew-on-the-Bunsen-burner thing—mainly wondering if it would even work! I‘m not particularly sciency myself, so I don‘t find myself bothered by those parts, but I wonder if that‘s also because there‘s a healthy dose of fantasy/supernatural woven throughout the rest of the story. I just recategorize it all as fantasy! 6y
CSeydel @BarbaraJean I‘m pretty sure it wouldn‘t be very practical! You have the right idea about considering it fantasy. I‘m going to keep going, I just had to vent ☺️ 6y
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BarbaraJean
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This library hold auto-checked out to me last night... guess I‘d better get cracking on the last few hours of my current Agatha Christie audiobook! I really enjoyed Jennifer Ehle‘s narration on A Wind in the Door—looking forward to revisiting this one in audio form as well.

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Andrea313
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TK-421 Beautiful ❤️ 6y
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Erin7
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Haven‘t done one of these in awhile.

1.Winter...time too humid in the summers where I live.
2.Both, but I have a bad habit of over obligating to book club reads☺️.
3.Definitely print. I love the feel of holding a book, it‘s a more relaxing reading experience on my eyes, and I like enjoying filling the shelves with books I love.

@SilversReviews

SilversReviews Thanks for playing. 6y
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BarbaraJean
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1. Every 3-4 weeks (unless Hoopla/Overdrive/Libby count—then: multiple times weekly!)
2. The Library of Alexandria before it burned! Or THIS: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/welsh-library-stay-in-glads... 😍
3. Two audiobooks: tagged + Poirot Investigates
4. Can‘t remember! I had cards at two libraries from maybe age 4. One in the English village where we lived & one on the AFB where my dad worked.
#TrivialThursday

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JosieG
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Definitely not my favorite book so far. It was oddly written from more grown-up perspectives but still in the same overall tone as the first two books and for the same audience. It was a bit jarring to read at times. However, by the end of the book, I was on the edge of my seat wanting to know how things would work out, so that was nice at least.

readinginthedark Yeah, this one was a bit strange. And then she backtracks again in the next one!🤷🏻‍♀️ 6y
JosieG @readinginthedark How strange! I am really enjoying the series, but they definitely get strange as they progress through. Was the 5th one better? 6y
readinginthedark Even with the backtracking in time, I like 4 a bit better than 3. I‘m in the middle of the 5th one now, and I‘m honestly not sure what will happen. I think I‘ll always like the 1st one best in this series. 6y
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DarcysMom
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JanJan
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Slow progress for my first readathon! #25in5

CrowCAH I‘m at the same time! 😉 6y
Andrew65 😊👍 6y
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TieDyeDude
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The blurb for Swiftly Tilting Planet started with "Charles Wallace and a unicorn," and that's as far as I got. Time to take a break from juvenile books...
Excited to read my newest library borrow, Heart Berries!

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JosieG
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So much turkey! She has mentioned turkey dinners in every book so far. Now I want a turkey dinner...

GripLitGrl 😄😄 6y
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Ekkross
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Bailedbailed

I bailed. It just doesn‘t hold up in adulthood the way I wanted it to.

DrexEdit 🙁 6y
Ekkross @DrexEdit I know. Bums me out 6y
TieDyeDude I had planned to read the whole series, but I didn't even try with this one after I read there was a unicorn involved. Just seemed like too much. I may try again in the future. 6y
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Meeko93
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This is the third book in the series and was my favorite so far! I loved the stories of all of the ancestors and how it all came together.

TheAnitaAlvarez I had a bone to pick with the location of Branzillo, because it‘s said that it‘s in Patagonia and for some reason, described as warm/tropical. I grew up around Patagonia and it made zero sense to me 😂 6y
Meeko93 @TheAnitaAlvarez honestly I've never heard of Patagonia so I'm not sure 😂 but I'm glad to hear that from your point of view. 6y
TheAnitaAlvarez @Meeko93 it‘s in the South of Argentina and Chile, reaching Antartica, so it‘s rather cold most of the year 😂 6y
Meeko93 @TheAnitaAlvarez oh that's really funny haha and they were all saying that Matthew would have done better there cause it's warm. 6y
TheAnitaAlvarez @Meeko93 yup, when I read I was like “warm? Really?” My town is not quite in Patagonia (it‘s a bit to the north on the Chilean side), but it‘s cold most of the year and it rains a lot 6y
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makaylabw
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Pickpick

I have to say I rather enjoyed this third book in the series. I‘m still lost in this cosmic universe, but this story was particularly captivating. And Guadior the unicorn was a great character! Can‘t wait to see what happens in book four! 4/5 ⭐️

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makaylabw
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Unicorns find it embarrassing to be thanked. Please desist. 😂🦄

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yoyo1331
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Day 4 of #riotgrams Purple books. Not a popular book color, turns out! @bookriot

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ThePurpleSponge
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"Unicorns find it embarrassing to be thanked. Please desist."

Fun fact ?

RadicalReader @ThePurpleSponge so glad I found your page thanks to @MrBook mentioning you on a post of a meeting they had and you recognized them by their Litsy names 😂😂 ADORABLE SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTERFLY YOU ARE 6y
MrBook @RadicalReader 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻 6y
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brennahawleycraig
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Totally loves both these books. I never read the whole Time Quintet as a kid, but I‘m loving the fantasy/science/faith/family themes in the books. And Two Girls Down was totally intriguing. Kitty is exhausted from supporting reading all weekend. #catsoflitsy #timequintet #botm

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GraveyardNeko
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I 🖤 the flow of these chapters!

TheAnitaAlvarez I liked this book, but the portrayal of a non-existent Patagonian country as warm struck me as odd. I grew up in that area and it‘s everything but hot 6y
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Ekkross
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"They had put up with her all through her prickly adolescence, and she still did not feel very grown up."

#relatable #adultingsucks

JosieG That cover is spectacular! ❤ 6y
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bookworm.krizia
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❤️❤️❤️

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bookishbitch
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This was a re-read for me. It's been at least 30 years since the first time so there were parts I did not remember. Ironicly it is a story about attempting to change things to avoid war due to a power crazy world leader. Sadly timely. I fell in love with Gaudior (the unicorn) all over again. Now that I have read all 5 books of the series I do still think this one is my favorite.

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bookishbitch
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"I've never been sent to your planet before. It's considered a hardship assignment."

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bookishbitch
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My after dinner treats. #reread

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AllenTStClair
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Moving on the the third in the Time Quintet.

carrceli Need to re-read these. It's been too long. 7y
AllenTStClair It's been since middle school for me, so I've been on a reread mission this year. 7y
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Lmstraubie
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Although A Wrinkle in Time was published in 1960 these next two were #publishedinthe70s 1973 & 1978 #jubilantjuly @RealLifeReading

readinginthedark I need to read the second one! 7y
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booksandsympathy
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Playing catch up with my #junebookbugs The House of Spirits is a book that's been on my tbr for a while. I need to read it. A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a book I accidentally stole from the library when I was 13. We were moving half-way across the country and the book accidentally ended up in a box. Oops! #setinthesouthernhemisphere #aplanetinthetitle

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GinEyre22
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#junebookbugs Day 28 : planet in the title
@RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Sweet cover 7y
Lidia I love this book ❤️ 7y
booksandsympathy I accidently stole this book from a library when I was younger 7y
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Lmstraubie
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A series that rivals HP in my world. #aplanetinthetitle #junebookbugs @RealLifeReading

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