George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 19, 2025
Watch who and what they are attacking first.
Show threadCosmic LibrarianMar 19, 2025

@georgetakei

Madeleine L' Engle was way ahead of her time, and I read her books as a kid...'A Wrinkle in Time' had a huge influence on me. The movie was awful. The book was the first I ever read about a really smart girl who is---the main protagonist. The book is VERY relevant to the world today. It's not just a kid's book. It's still on my bookshelf and I still read it...because of the very ideas in her quote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time

A Wrinkle in Time - Wikipedia

Show threadJames Gleick
@cosmiclibrarian @LillyHerself @georgetakei As a boy, I had no trouble identifying with Meg.
Mar 19, 2025 at 8:02pmWeb
Show threadCosmic LibrarianMar 19, 2025

@gleick @LillyHerself @georgetakei

In 1963, the school did not know what to do with me, except move me from 5th grade into 12th grade. I said "No. I feel feel weird as it is." A 10 year-old girl in classes with 17 and 18 year olds? Who were also immature? That was not the best option.