Le Guin’s extraordinary imaginary worlds have been built and shared. 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. Le Guin (Author), Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition 645 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. This delightful book, inquisitive and stroppily opinionated in equal measure, assembles stray pieces from her recent adventures in blogging. No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters Kindle Edition by Ursula K.

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. deeply observed.' - USA Today 'A book that truly does matter.Ms. Billionaires, all of us.' 'The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them.' - Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review 'Witty. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: 'How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?' On breakfast: 'Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.' Ursula K. Le Guin Janu By Kaitlyn Greenberg Little Free Library, RecRead, RUGRAT My first encounter with the work of Ursula K.

Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: 'If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.' On cultural perceptions of fantasy: 'The direction of escape is toward freedom. She has collected the best entries from her blog into a neatly organized book, No Time to Spare. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Le Guin is now 88 years old, and neither she nor I feels that we have time to spare.

No Time To Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin