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Left wanting more… (and hooray – this completes two bingo lines!)

The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K Le Guin

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CBR11 Bingo- Birthday   I had to find a square for my girl Le Guin on this bingo card, and fortunately her birthday was October 21, so that was an easy pick 🙂 I’ve had The Eye of the Heron  on my TBR list for a while, and this seemed like a perfect time to pick it up. I love Le Guin not only because of her writing itself, but for the fact that she is one of the truly great female fantasy/sci-fi writers. Even when one of her books isn’t my favourite, I always admire her originality and her take […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Could Not Get Into This One: DNF at 25 Percent

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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I tried. Really. I hate it when I don’t get into a classic. I have been told for years that I should read Ursula K. Le Guin and how much I would like her and maybe I should just try something else. This book didn’t make any sense to me. I kept reading words and going what in the world does this mean? And some of the sentences/paragraphs felt overly written. I just finally decided that I wasn’t enjoying it and moved on to another book (that I also didn’t like so jokes on me!) and that’s that. I DNFed […]

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8/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:189 |

“Nothing … was private: only secret, only silent. We ate our tears.”

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  This book is so wildly out of my wheelhouse that I don’t really feel qualified to assess it. I’ve almost never read science fiction and rarely read short story collections, and I’m sure I’ve never read a book that was both. There were some stories I loved and some I hated (luckily, the longer novella at the end hit a solid “liked a lot” on that scale), but without a doubt I now have tremendous respect for Le Guin as a writer. It’s astonishing to me that you can take such potent, human concepts as sexuality, adolescence, religion, duty, […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Potentially Interesting Collection Diminished by Bad Choices on Part of the Reader

No Time to Spare by Ursual K. LeGuin

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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 wasn’t so much an essay collection as a collection of blog entries.  It is not […]

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8/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:157 |

Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience.

Words are my Matter; No Time to Spare by Ursula K Le Guin

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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. I came closest here. For one, she’s very honest and clear with her voice and […]

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7/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:276 |

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.

The Real and the Unreal Vol 1; The Real and the Unreal Vol 2 by Ursula K Le Guin

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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 space or science fiction stories pushed their respective fields in more meaningful directions. So taking […]

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7/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:226 |

Two are one, life and death, lying like lovers in kemmer

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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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 eye” but an introduction to the novel by Le Guin herself. I don’t think I’ve […]

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6/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

I really wanna meet a dragon now.

The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin

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“If women had power what would men be, but women who can’t bear children?” The earthsea quartet is four books that all follow Ged, known as Sparrowhawk, from his first feeble steps into magic, through his prideful youth, to a brave adulthood and then finally in his final years as Archmage of the wizard school on the island on Roke. “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. The Wizard of the Earthsea is the first book were we meet a young boy in a village who suddenly finds himself defending his village from […]

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5/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:12 |


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