Audiobook 6 hours No Time to Spare Show full title Written by Ursula K. Le Guin Paperback 21. Le Guin Paperback 31.48 Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin’s extraordinary imaginary worlds have been built and shared. Le Guin - Audiobook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. This item: NO TIME TO SPARE: Thinking about What Matters by URSULA K LE GUIN Hardcover 39.99 The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by 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. In even these miscellanies, composed in her off hours, the sentences are perfectly balanced and the language chosen with care. 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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