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Summary: If your looking for a good book you MUST read this!
Review: I just finished Madeliene L'Engle's book A Ring of Endless Light and it was terrific. I loved the whole story and how the end turned out. It was a very good book! You learn how difficult it can be to be a teenage girl. Madeliene L'Engle does a great job describing the scenery and characters. I would highly recommend this book!
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Summary: Great!
Review: One of the greatest things about this book is that in some ways you can relate to the character. All of Madeleine L'Engle's characters are like that. You can almost see some aspect of your self in all of her books. This one I highly recommend!
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Summary: A great part of the Austin series
Review: I love this book. I first read it years ago as a child. I have reread it several time since and don't ever tire of the story or of the message. Vicky Austin is struggling through adolescence, feeling confused and unsure of herself. Her family is spending the dummer on Seven-Bay Island where her Grandfather lives. They are there because he is dying. The summer presents a lot of challenges for Vicky, both full of joy and full of sorrow. Choosing the light, rather than darkness, and standing up and recognizing that there is good in the world are poignant and appropriate themes for this day and age.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: Once when I had to list my favorite book, I listed this very book. Its a book about coming of age, of growing up, and although I haven't read it this year, I recall reading it in the past with a sense of enjoyment I don't often get from books. The main character, Vicky Austin, was exactly like me. Her family was one I would love to have; although they are a little quirky. I think anyone should read this book, young or old ~ its a tribute to growing up.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I love this book! I've read it several times, but it has never grown old to me. I love the romance aspect of it: I hate Zachary, am bored with Leo, and LOVE Adam! I wish they would just get together and get it over with! I think that the experiment that they do with the dolphins is fascinating- the idea of telepathic communication goes way over my head but is still cool. I also love the wisdom of this book; I learn so much about the issues of life and death, which I have experienced firsthand, and how to resolve questions in my mind about them. Great book. I'd recommend it to any age level because just about anyone can get a lot out of it.
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Summary: A Ring of Endless Light Review, by Kristina
Review: I thought this book was very good.It has a slow start ,but has a good ending.This book helps show that even everday,normal people have struggles.The story helps us understand how animals can help people with their promblems.This is a great book for people who like animals to read.
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Summary: Vicky Austin
Review: I think this book has GOT to be one of the best I've read. I'm thirteen years old, and in some cases I can relate with Vicky, or Suzy. Vicky seems like she wants to grow up more than anything, and I do, too. I get kind of angry when people still think of me as a child. And, as Vicky puts it, she's confused with life and so am I. I can tell Suzy is beginning to feel it, too. But this book is incredible. I am now going to begin on reading Troubling a Star, and hopefully read the whole Austin series. Madeline L'Engle is an incredible writer, and through these books she shows her talent.
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Summary: Best Book in the Austin Family Series
Review: Madeleine L'Engle has been honoured by the Newbery Award twice. As many know, she won the 1962 honour for her classic "A Wrinkle in Time". Her second honour came as an honourable mention in 1980 for "A Ring of Endless Light". Reading this book, the only surprise to me is that it did not win the Newbery Award outright. It certainly deserved to."A Ring of Endless Light" is a deep and complex book about death and its place in life. It is so good that it overshadows the rest of the Austin Family series of novels, particularly "Troubling a Star", which follows it in the series. Madeleine is very at home here with the characters of the Austins and tells a compelling story of their last summer with their grandfather, who is dying of leukemia. Fifteen-year-old Vicky carries off the story very well as the narrator, getting the reader deeper and more personally involved with the characters. The story of her summer is alternately funny, touching, uplifting and very sad. "A Ring of Endless Light" will hit anybody in the gut who can remember losing their own grandparents. The weight that's placed on Vicky's shoulders throughout the book makes my heart ache. This ache is emphasized by the other events of that summer, with the normally lovelorn Vicky (quite to her shock) finding three men in her life. Not only is she pursued by the staid but sympathetic Leo and the fascinating but dangerous Zachary, but she develops strong feelings for the distant Adam Eddington, a scientist friend of her brother John who enlists her help with his project on communicating with dolphins, and who finds himself being emotionally drawn towards this interesting young woman. Some may think the premise of communicating with dolphins and learning from their spiritual sides to be silly, but Madeleine has the guts to pull it off. Those readers should find more to like, anyway, in Vicky's rapport with Adam, and the shocking personal climax she faces in the final chapters. This book is highly recommended, and one which I'm sure many will cherish.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing!
Review: This book is just AMAZING. This is the best book by the best author. I read this book over and over and I never get sick of it! I recommend this book to everyone! There's a little romance in it with the main character Vicky Austin and Zachary Gray and Adam Eddington. It's a difficult year for Vicky because her favorite grandfather is ill with leukemia and is slowly dieng. Vicky meets dolphins and creates a special friendship with the dolphin, Basil. It's just wonderful the way the dolphins are described. DEFINITELY READ THIS BOOK!!!
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Summary: childhood favorite
Review: I read many of Madeleine's books in 5th grade, when I discovered them. This was the first one I discovered and will forever remain my favorite other than A Wrinkle in Time. I related well to Vicky because at the time my father's best friend was dying of Leukemia. Vicky goes through a period of time where she meets Adam, and begins to bond with his dolphins. The unique relationship between her and the dolphins is remarkable as dolphins are amazingly intelligent creatures. Madeleine has done a great job of portraying this family as a regular family as well as adding the mystical feeling of telecommunication.
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