Bingo Square: Birthday This was a very frustrating read for me, and it is entirely due to the fact that I chose the wrong platform to enjoy this book. When I popped up as a daily deal in Audible, I jumped at it with little analysis because I have always thought I need to read more Ursula K. LeGuin. I vaguely knew it was an essay collection and thought it would be interesting to hear her thoughts on various subjects. The problem is that it […]
Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience.
Words are My Matter – 5/5 Stars This is a through and through very good nonfiction collection. The main focus of this collection are various speeches, book reviews, book introductions, and other assorted nonfiction from Ursula K Le Guin’s last sixteen years of life. I have to state here that for all the book of Le Guin I have read and reviewed, I don’t think I have every loved one. I liked several of them, and respected most of them, but love not so much. […]
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
I have broken this into two sections because the book itself, whether it’s the one volume version or not was broken into two volumes for the audiobook. The best thing about both of these collections is that Ursula K Le Guin wrote a sizable introduction to both and explained how she edited these. What came across in these introductions is that she likes and respects her Earthbound stories more so, and I think are maybe closer to her heart, but that she recognizes that her […]
Two are one, life and death, lying like lovers in kemmer
I’m disappointed that it’s taken me nearly half a century to discover Ursula K. Le Guin. Perhaps “discover” isn’t the right word; I knew of her existence, but until she passed away earlier this year I hadn’t been motivated to read anything by her. I scored in my purchase of Penguin’s “great masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy” edition in that it contains not only a series introduction by Neil Gaiman, in which he describes Le Guin as having “a poet’s touch and an anthropologist’s […]