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| Title | : | Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5) |
| Author | : | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1995 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Fantasy |
Madeleine L'Engle
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 296 pages Rating: 3.85 | 6769 Users | 290 Reviews
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I know many might find this a terrible thing to admit, but I've always loved A Ring of Endless Light and Troubling a Star best of all Madeleine L'Engle's books--yes, even more than A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels and companions. I'm not sure whether I can even explain why, other than to say that I somehow just really identify with Vicky Austin, more than I ever could with Meg or Cal or Charles Wallace or the twins.This book is sort of part mystery, part travel adventure, part political intrigue, and part coming-of-age story. Vicky gets in over her head when her friend (and crush) Adam Eddington heads to Antarctica with a research team and she's given the opportunity to join a cruise and follow along behind him, to meet up with him when she arrives. Only not everyone on the ship with her is there for sightseeing, and somebody thinks she knows more than she does. The story starts off right in thick of things and then goes back to tell us how Vicky got into such a dire situation.
Yeah, sometimes Vicky seems a little old-fashioned, but...I don't know, she still somehow feels real, and Troubling a Star is a total comfort book for me that I just read over and over and over again. Plus, you know, I kind of have that whole obsession with Antarctica thing going.
Anyway, this is one of my all-time faves.
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| Original Title: | Troubling a Star |
| ISBN: | 0440219507 (ISBN13: 9780440219507) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Austin Family Chronicles #5 |
| Characters: | Vicky Austin, Adam Eddington |
| Setting: | Antarctica |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 6769 Users | 290 ReviewsJudge Containing Books Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5)
This feels like the old times in Meet the Austins, with part weird upside-down A Swiftly Tilting Planet scenario which was both intriguing and a bit strange to say the least (it does make the events and Charles' and Gaudior's work pointless...I really don't know what Madeleine L'Engle was thinking in ruining the outcomes of the A Swiftly Tilting Planet just to have some sort of background for this one; this one was published in 1994 and A Swiftly Tilting Planetin 1978, so you can't say she didI always seem to revisit this series every few years, I love Madeleine L'Engle's voice and the life she gives to Vicky. As an adult it is a very quick read I can read it in probably a day's commute to and from work on the bus. I so enjoy Vicky and Adam and Cook and all the whole Austin family really, re-reading is a little like visiting friends! The fact that it has stayed with me for almost 20 years should be recommendation enough for you to read it!
I'm longing for the first two books in the series where normal things happened to normal people. Now the normal people are getting involved in international plots, nuclear weapons, kidnapping, etc. - oh, yeah - in Antarctica. It's a bit much to swallow. I could sort of go along with that kind of thing in the Poly O'Keefe books, but not here. Again, I think this book suffers from the removal of the character from her normal environment. The other problem is even when there are characters who are
I know many might find this a terrible thing to admit, but I've always loved A Ring of Endless Light and Troubling a Star best of all Madeleine L'Engle's books--yes, even more than A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels and companions. I'm not sure whether I can even explain why, other than to say that I somehow just really identify with Vicky Austin, more than I ever could with Meg or Cal or Charles Wallace or the twins. This book is sort of part mystery, part travel adventure, part political
this book was extremely stupid, highly highly unrealistic (to the point where it's more unrealistic than anything else that L'Engle has written, and yes, I'm including the Wrinkle in Time series in that assessment), and just flat out BAD. it alarms me how L'Engle went from writing the phenomenal and earth-shattering (for me, at least) Ring of Endless Light and then followed it up with this garbage book where Vicky seems like so much more of a child than she was previously. Was this because she
I know I've read this before, since the names and some of the situations were familiar to me, but it's been a long time. It was good to read it with fresh eyes.I've never been a huge fan of Vicky Austin...I much prefer the O'Keefe family and books. That said, I was willing to give Vicky a chance. But this book was a little boring. It read like someone's travelogue journal entry where most days were pretty routine and nothing much happened. Also, I found it strange that no less than THREE boys on
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