The Arm of the Starfish
Jan. 5th, 2012 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessThe latest Madeleine L'Engle post, about The Arm of the Starfish, went up at Tor.com today.
This was the first of the L'Engle posts that I found difficult to write, tangled as I was between boredom with the book and severe ethical issues with the book.
Interestingly enough, I am finding that as L'Engle's Christian faith deepened and became a stronger presence in her novels (it was never quite absent, but And Both Were Young and Camilla were not particularly Christian books), her morality gets a bit more -- what is the word I'm looking for? Suspect? Questionable? -- with the exception of A Ring of Endless Light. (So far; I haven't finished rereading everything yet.) Then again, this may be less her Christianity, and more aging in a world that did not always bring her joy, and which was filled with the very real terror for her of the Soviet Union.
This was the first of the L'Engle posts that I found difficult to write, tangled as I was between boredom with the book and severe ethical issues with the book.
Interestingly enough, I am finding that as L'Engle's Christian faith deepened and became a stronger presence in her novels (it was never quite absent, but And Both Were Young and Camilla were not particularly Christian books), her morality gets a bit more -- what is the word I'm looking for? Suspect? Questionable? -- with the exception of A Ring of Endless Light. (So far; I haven't finished rereading everything yet.) Then again, this may be less her Christianity, and more aging in a world that did not always bring her joy, and which was filled with the very real terror for her of the Soviet Union.