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Madeleine l’Engle, the consummate storyteller, reflects on her life as wife, mother, and writer at her beloved Crosswicks in Connecticut where generations of family gather during the summer.

Her stories offer insight into the human condition as she tells true tales of her abuse at school, the comfort and stress of inter-generational life, the tediousness of housework and marriage.

And of course, she writes about the writing process and good literature, which she defines as a “vehicle of truth, not a blueprint.” (204)

As in all her memoirs, readers can feel her struggle to reconcile her life with faith, a tenuous Christian faith permeated with doubt and questioning, fleshed out in brilliant storytelling.

The circle of quiet which l’Engle alludes to at the beginning fittingly concludes as a “circle of love” at book’s end. (237)

I found the book consoling and instructive, a spiritual lift, for those who are fans of the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time and any of her other famous works.


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A Circle of Quiet Madeleine LEngle 9780062545039 Books Reviews

Another sharing of Madeleine L'Engle's interesting, diverse life and the challenging examination she constantly sets forth in her writing of all that really matters in living on this planet. She is curious and imaginative about everything from beginning to end. I admire and enjoy that! I share it with her as I read.
L'Engle's writing is so conversational in style, one is immediately drawn in and transformed from reader to participant. It made me want to be just as honest in my own writing and sharing of my life. I will read it again at a later date, I am quite sure.
Reading this was like meeting a kindred spirit in the woods and being invited home with her. I found so much encouragement here. Highly recommended for writers.
I loved this memoir. I would love to know Madeleine L'Engle. Her storytelling and advice is down-to-earth and mesmerizing at the same time. In this, she shares wisdom and personal stories about her life as a mother and writer living on a farm in New England. She made me see, feel, laugh, and love her circle of quiet and recognize the importance of having my own.
I first read Madeleine L'Engle in elementary school and was a big fan of A Wrinkle in Time. I was unaware that she had books for adults as well, until Karen made this book recommendation.

This book is thoughts taken from her journals. Each chapter is a gem, and the book is best read slowly in order to reflect on the layers of meaning in her writing. I can't give this book a high enough recommendation.

"I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography. All perversion is self-gratification. In true love, the lover's pleasure comes in giving himself wholly to the loved one. When we try to give ourselves to ourselves, that is not only perversion, it is ultimately suicide."
Gave this 5 stars for giving me some thoughts on God, the world, life, etc and how to experience them all to the fullest. I love her testimony of how she was converted to Christianity. She states that she wasn't convinced intellectually, but because of the love from an unlikely believer.
I connected with her in this quote "When I do something wrong I tend to alibi, to make excuses, blame someone else. Until I can accept whatever it is that I have done, I am only widening the gap between my real and my ontological self, and I am thus excluding myself so that I begin to think that I am unforgivable. We need to be forgiven"
A month or so ago I was asking for a good biography or memoir from a pastor or theologian. I was thinking of something like Eugene Peterson’s The Pastor or one of Lyle Dorsett’s biographies. What I was looking for was wisdom.

Wisdom is something that is earned by time. It is not guaranteed with age, but it is only comes to those that are aged. Part of what is required to earn wisdom is reflection. And that is what Madeleine L’Engle has done here. She is writing her thoughts and musings about life and her writing and meaning based on the journals that she has kept for her own purposes.

L’Engle was in her mid 50s when A Circle of Quiet was written. (And the fourth Crosswick Journal book was published 23 year later.) So she is not so old that she has forgotten what it is like to be young, nor was she that far distant from the failures of her life as a writer. (A Circle of Quiet was published just 11 years after A Wrinkle in Time was published.)

A Circle of Quiet is a bit meandering. Much of it is reflections on what it means to be a writer or story teller or how she has taught writing and story telling to others. But mixed in are thoughts on parenting and child development, living in a small town (Crosswick is the name of their home in rural Connecticut, where they lived for 7 years full time early in her marriage and that they kept as a summer home when they moved back to New York City), living in a large city, love, church, and many other random thoughts.

It isn’t a book that ‘goes somewhere’. I meandered through it for almost a month, enjoying her descriptive language and the ideas. So do not read it looking for an overarching story or plot. It isn’t that kind of book.

I have since read the next two books in the series of Crosswick Journals and I will be reading the last soon.
Madeleine l’Engle, the consummate storyteller, reflects on her life as wife, mother, and writer at her beloved Crosswicks in Connecticut where generations of family gather during the summer.

Her stories offer insight into the human condition as she tells true tales of her abuse at school, the comfort and stress of inter-generational life, the tediousness of housework and marriage.

And of course, she writes about the writing process and good literature, which she defines as a “vehicle of truth, not a blueprint.” (204)

As in all her memoirs, readers can feel her struggle to reconcile her life with faith, a tenuous Christian faith permeated with doubt and questioning, fleshed out in brilliant storytelling.

The circle of quiet which l’Engle alludes to at the beginning fittingly concludes as a “circle of love” at book’s end. (237)

I found the book consoling and instructive, a spiritual lift, for those who are fans of the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time and any of her other famous works.