Blogs about: Ursula K Leguin
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False foreshadowing
Since Ellie validated my mistaken reading of GIFTS over in that post’s comments thread, I thought I would elaborate. ‘Cause what interested me, when I was reading GIFTS, was how much I tho… more →
Underage Reading
The Revolutionary Mindset
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Chris wrote 4 days ago: I recently finished The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. LeGuin. Though I’d been aware … more →
Fingerprints, or Writers Who Have Influenced Me
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katycooper wrote 1 month ago: The other day, I had a powerful urge to re-read Mary Stewart’s The Ivy Tree. It’s been y … more →
Happy (belated) Birthday Ursula LeGuin
LeaningSun wrote 1 month ago: Brigindo over at Dirt and Rocks posted this set of Ursula-isms in celebration of Ursula LeGuin … more →
The secret history of science fiction; or, trying to please mainstream readers
Bill the sci-fi guy wrote 1 month ago: What we hope to present in this anthology is an alternative vision of sf from the 1970’s to th … more →
Required Reading: The City and the City
gradland wrote 1 month ago: China Mieville had me at hello. Or, rather, he had me at the opening lines of The Scar: “A mi … more →
Flash reviews -- September '09
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Bill the sci-fi guy wrote 2 months ago: Title: The Gold at the Starbow’s End Author: Frederik Pohl Year: 1972 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars … more →
slowing down
L wrote 2 months ago: I am slowly, but steadily, working my way through the reading list. Between one thing and another, a … more →
BBAW: Reading Habits
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tuulenhaiven wrote 2 months ago: Today’s BBAW meme is all about your own personal reading-related quirks. I’m going to tr … more →
I'm just too picky for my own good
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Allegra wrote 2 months ago: Some of us are just picky readers. I never particularly put myself in that category, but now that I … more →
raving (though possibly not yet mad)
L wrote 2 months ago: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. 362 … more →
Books of Impact!
jantzib wrote 2 months ago: This is a response to something I did on Facebook. My friend Hume suggested that I (and many others) … more →
Quote of the Day-August 30 2009
grosenberg wrote 2 months ago: “The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.” — Ursula K Le Gui … more →
PastPresent: the Ghibli/Disney crosscurrent
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Helen wrote 4 months ago: In 2007, as part of my first Barbican anime lecture series, I used two Disney movies, Lilo and Stitc … more →
A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
David Marshall wrote 5 months ago: So let’s get the obvious out of the way first. Conventional wisdom always seems to think that two (o … more →
Confessions of a fantasy junkie
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damiengwalter wrote 5 months ago: My name is Damien, and I am a fantasy fan. It started as a child, when my mum read me The Lord of th … more →
15 (+1) Great Books
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Wind wrote 5 months ago: I did this viral exercise from Facebook: Name 15 books that have made a strong impression on you. Li … more →
False foreshadowing
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Elizabeth wrote 5 months ago: Since Ellie validated my mistaken reading of GIFTS over in that post’s comments thread, I thou … more →
Gifts and grief, and girlfriends who matter.
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Elizabeth wrote 5 months ago: Ursula K. LeGuin’s GIFTS was yet another book for which my reading experience was massively di … more →
Wednesday Words: Well, I suppose that's something.
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Elizabeth wrote 5 months ago: He was a man and I a boy, he was a thief and I was honest, he had seen the world and I had not, but … more →
