![]() ![]() Le Guin’s extraordinary imaginary worlds have been built and shared. No Time to Spare is an enjoyable visit with literary giant Ursula Le Guin (and her cat) by Hannah Schlomann, Christian Science Monitor (22 December 2017) Review at BookReporter, Harvey Freedenberg (15 December 2017) Ursula K. After all, she writes, 'Words are my matter-my stuff.' And it’s through their infinite arrangements, 'the endless changes and complexities of their interrelationships,' that Ms. What is Harvard thinking of I am going to be eighty-one next week. In even these miscellanies, composed in her off hours, the sentences are perfectly balanced and the language chosen with care. There is a long list of choices, and from that Le Guin takes off, by iterating all that it takes to be a senior citizen, in terms of daily maintenance, and concludes, None of this is spare time. No Time to Spare - by Ursula K Le Guin 22. Despite her reservations with the hideous word 'blog'-which sounds like it should refer to 'an obstruction in the nasal passage'-she takes to the digressive form with ease, ruminating on the value of literary awards, the Great American Novel (her pick may surprise you), the 'existential situation' of old age and her outsize love for a newly adopted black-and-white cat called Pard. This delightful book, inquisitive and stroppily opinionated in equal measure, assembles stray pieces from her recent adventures in blogging. Few writers have been so conscientious of the ways that societies are defined by the nuances and omissions of their language. ![]() ![]() Le Guin’s brilliance lies beyond nomenclature. ![]()
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