A Swiftly Tilting Planet

I have been reading the next Madeleine L'Engle book. It is all right. I do like how the Murrys are a lot older now. I like that Meg is now an adult, is married and is expecting her first baby. She now wears contact lenses, has no braces on her teeth, and has hair that is better kept. That sort of reminds me of how Anne Hathaway's character in The Princess Diaries changes from a gawky school-girl to a perfectly-poised princess.

A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

I finished this book a few weeks ago. I read it back in high school, and I thought I would give it another read. I enjoyed it very much, but its predecessor "A Wrinkle in Time" was better. I like the themes in the book, such as working for the greater good and putting others first. The story is largely about Charles Wallace, a young boy who is seriously ill because his mitochondria is not working properly. There exists in his cells a device called "farondolae" that help mitochondria work.

500 Book Reading List

1. War and Peace 
2. Anna Karenina
3. River Horse by William Least Heat-Moon
4. PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon
5. Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
6. Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
7. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
8. Black Holes and Quantum Cats
9. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
10. Brian Greene
11. Brian Greene
12. The Tale of Genji
13. From Beirut to Jerusalem
14. Ho Chi Minh
15. Against the Gods
16. The Korean War by Matthew B. Ridgway
17. Cadres, Bureaucracy, and Political Power in Communist China
18. Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
19. Tales of the Uncanny
20. Jackson Pollock
21. Music: An Appreciation
22. The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
23. The Brazil Reader
24. The Argentina Reader
25. The Uruguay Reader
26. The Chile Reader
27. The Cuba Reader
28. The Columbia Reader
29. The Paraguay Reader
30. The Bolivia Reader
31. The Peru Reader
32. The Ecuador Reader
33. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
34. Anne Sexton
35. La Celestina
36. The Blue Rider story
37. The Guns of August
38. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
39. The Warmth of Other Suns
40. Imagining America: Stories From the Promised Land
41. Saffron Sky
42. Lost in Translation: A New Life in a New Language
43. Making Waves: New Writing By Asian-American Women
44. How I Found America: Collected Stories
45. Bread Givers
46. At Home by Bill Bryson
47. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
48. The complete poems of Hilda Doolittle
49. The Fly Swatter
50. Susan Sontag reader
51. Don Quixote
52. My Utmost for His Highest
53. Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
54. Jane Eyre
55. Cloud Atlas
56. Black Mass
57. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
58. The Handmaid's Tale
59. The Parable of the Talents
60. Papillon
61. Perfume
62. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
63. River Horse
64. Prairy Erth
65. Zlata's Diary
66. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
67. Walden
68. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
69. Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
70. Road Fever by Tim Cahill
71. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
72. An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot
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