A Humble Bundle of 30 books by Ursula K. Le Guin!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/wizard-earthsea-and-more-ursula-k-le-guin-books
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A book collecting letters exchanged between Stanisław Lem and Ursula K. LeGuin in the years 1972–1984 is about to be published in Poland this month!
Hopefully there will be an English edition eventually. Some of the letters were quoted in a recent biography of Lem and were super interesting.
If you haven’t yet read Ursula LeGuin’s Always Coming Home - now is the time. The ebook is on sale for $1.99.
#UrsulaLeGuin #amreading @bookstodon
https://www.ereaderiq.com/dp/B0B6Y4N8T3/
In "Always Coming Home" Ursula Le Guin imagined an entire culture, that of the Kesh, in every detail, which betrays her family background in anthropology (Alfred and Theodora Kroeber were her parents). An early book edition was even published with an MC (cassete tape) containing songs of the Kesh. Today, they are not lost! They can still be found on Bandcamp (link below). Have fun!
#books #bookstodon #ursulaleguin
https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh
Finished the early first three novels (1968—1972) of Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea cycle.
There are so many fantasy stories full of masculine muscle play, stupid violence and ridiculously shallow human characters & relationships. Not so those of Ursula Le Guin. They are beautiful stories about personal growth saturated with humane values, wisdom & wit.
Yes, we love her.
I bounced off of the Earthsea Trilogy as a teenager, but here in midlife it really hit home. I kept flipping back to the map as the richly imagined network of places unfolded. I loved how the narrative also took place in an inner landscape, as well as the central role that names and naming played. #UrsulaLeGuin
Ursula Le Guin’s family have announced that their family’s three-story house will become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency, via Literary Arts, a community nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. #UrsulaLeGuin #UrsulaKLeGuin #Residency #Portland #LiteraryArts #WritersResidency #Writers #SciFi
https://apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
repost from BlueSky for @bookstodon
Soon, The Language of the Night will be available once again! Ursula's 1979 collection of essays will be reissued by Scribner on May 14th, with a new introduction from author Ken Liu.
https://bsky.app/profile/ursulakleguin.bsky.social/post/3kib7af7hon2u
More details: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Language-of-the-Night/Ursula-K-Le-Guin/9781668034903
#Arboreality by #RebeccaCampbell from #Stelliform Press won the #UrsulaLeGuin Prize. It's so good. A beautiful, lyrical, melancholic vision of human lives continuing after climate catastrophe that ultimately affirms our continuing need to connect, celebrate, love and survive. And the importance of books to that endeavour. As a character says early on, trying to save a library collection, "even if the satellites work... We're going to need books again, for a while at least. Maybe forever." @bookstodon
turns out, my #inktober output wasn't entirely wretched...so, here's a collage of a few them. #art #illustration #illustrator #fannieLouHamer #jacquesTati #claudeCahun #kikiDeMontparnasse #ursulaLeGuin
Mae “Tehanu” #UrsulaLeGuin ar lefel gwahanol i weddill llyfrau Earthsea, mewn ffordd dda. Unwaith eto, dw i’n difaru peidio ei darllen cyn hyn, ond yn falch mod i wedi’i chyrraedd yn y pen draw.
'you cannot buy the revolution. you cannot make the revolution. you can only be the revolution. it is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.'
#art #history #inktober: what can i tell you about this powerhouse human? you already know that ursula le guin was a pioneering science fiction writer whose works incorporated #feminism, #anarchism, #race & gender fluidity - & she expanded upon these themes across five decades.
#ursulaLeGuin #sciFi #literature #illustration #portrait #oregon
Llyfr #42 am y flwyddyn. Eisiau darllen mwy gan #UrsulaLeGuin, ond dibynnu ar ddarganfod pethau mewn siopau ail-law yn hytrach nag archebu ar-lein. Mwynheuais i hwn, ffeindiwyd ar hap ar ôl i fi anfon copi newydd i fy nai am ei ben-blwydd. #DarllenNawr https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8eb688d9-c79c-4049-ad64-a0a9a7f368d2
Brent Sleeper commented on Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz (My Reading)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.
What makes readers …
Hard to say no to this dust jacket promo copy: “What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining #UrsulaLeGuin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library. Four decades and who knows how many re-readings later, her #Earthsea owns him still.”