deeply observed." - USA Today "A book that truly does matter. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. Ships from and sold by Book Depository UK. 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. This item: NO TIME TO SPARE: Thinking about What Matters. 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. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. No Time to Spare Le Guin, Ursula Published by Mariner Books (2019) ISBN 10: 1328507971 ISBN 13: 9781328507976 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: GF Books, Inc. 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 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. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.
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