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Title: No Time to Spare
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrator: Barbara Caruso
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-18
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines.
No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it.
On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, "If I'm 90 and believe I'm 45, 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. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"
On her new cat: "He still won't sit on a lap. I don't know if he ever will. He just doesn't accept the lap hypothesis."
On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime."
And on all that is unknown, all that we discover as we muddle through life: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."
Members Reviews:
WHAT A JOY SHE IS!
Do you realize how many books, and in how many genres, poet-fiction writer-essayist Ursula JK. Le Guin has published to date? Using the listing in the front of her latest collection, there are 23 works of fiction (novels and short stories, some of them extraordinarily influential), eleven books of poems (and a twelfth is mentioned in a piece in this book), and two volumes of translations (of Lao Tzu and Gabriela Mistral). Sheâs a force! And as in a collection of occasional pieces I just reviewed by polymath Umberto Eco (Chronicles of a Liquid Society), even her most occasional postings have substance. Reaching her early and then mid-eighties, she decides to venture into blogging. She posts sage to pithy comments on a wide range of topics, from the ups and downs of aging (read her assessment of the Harvard alumni survey), to the joys of raising a kitten to adult cathood. She writes: âIâve lost faith in the saying âYouâre only as old as you think you are,â ever since I got old. âShe takes on the current fascination with the two most common cuss words, one dealing with procreation (but not really procreation, really with dominance and battering), the other with excretion. On being a writer, she notes that meaning in art isnât the same as in science: âThe meaning of the second law of thermodynamics â isnât changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning of Huckleberry Finn isâ. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explainsâ. All I expect of a good potter is to go and make another good pot.â There are sage comments on the craft of writing, on how being a woman writer discriminates against one in a still male dominated publishing and criticsâ world. She asks why we never question the desirability of economic growth.
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Title: No Time to Spare
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrator: Barbara Caruso
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-11-18
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts - always adroit, often acerbic - on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
Ursula K. Le Guin has taken listeners to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice - sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical - shines.
No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula's blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it.
On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, "If I'm 90 and believe I'm 45, 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. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"
On her new cat: "He still won't sit on a lap. I don't know if he ever will. He just doesn't accept the lap hypothesis."
On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime."
And on all that is unknown, all that we discover as we muddle through life: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."
Members Reviews:
WHAT A JOY SHE IS!
Do you realize how many books, and in how many genres, poet-fiction writer-essayist Ursula JK. Le Guin has published to date? Using the listing in the front of her latest collection, there are 23 works of fiction (novels and short stories, some of them extraordinarily influential), eleven books of poems (and a twelfth is mentioned in a piece in this book), and two volumes of translations (of Lao Tzu and Gabriela Mistral). Sheâs a force! And as in a collection of occasional pieces I just reviewed by polymath Umberto Eco (Chronicles of a Liquid Society), even her most occasional postings have substance. Reaching her early and then mid-eighties, she decides to venture into blogging. She posts sage to pithy comments on a wide range of topics, from the ups and downs of aging (read her assessment of the Harvard alumni survey), to the joys of raising a kitten to adult cathood. She writes: âIâve lost faith in the saying âYouâre only as old as you think you are,â ever since I got old. âShe takes on the current fascination with the two most common cuss words, one dealing with procreation (but not really procreation, really with dominance and battering), the other with excretion. On being a writer, she notes that meaning in art isnât the same as in science: âThe meaning of the second law of thermodynamics â isnât changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning of Huckleberry Finn isâ. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explainsâ. All I expect of a good potter is to go and make another good pot.â There are sage comments on the craft of writing, on how being a woman writer discriminates against one in a still male dominated publishing and criticsâ world. She asks why we never question the desirability of economic growth.