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Finished reading #UrsulaKLeGuin 's 1820s historical novel set in a (fictional) part of the Austro-Hungarian empire - Orsinia, a setting she has returned to, in various time periods, in a few of her non-SFF works. The story does eventually feature a violent revolution, but this is not an exciting or heroic book - it is very slow moving and took me some time to get into. But the care, clarity, and skill she brings to characters, setting, and prose definitely paid off for me. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

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Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.

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Ursula Le Guin‘s daily schedule

5:30 a.m. - wake up and lie there and think.
6:15 a.m. - get up and eat breakfast (lots).
7.15 a.m. - get to work writing, writing, writing.
Noon - lunch.
1:00-3:00 p.m. - reading, music.
3:00-5:00 p.m. correspondence, maybe house cleaning.
5:00-8:00 p.m. make dinner and eat it.
After 8:00 p.m. - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.

This was Le Guin's daily schedule first appeared in an interview she gave in 1988 (and more recently reappeared in Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations).

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While in Glasgow yesterday, I couldn’t resist a visit to Good Press in St. Andrew’s Street. It’s probably for the best that this amazing shop crammed full of books, zines, music and other treasures isn’t on my doorstep, because I’d be there every other day…They have things I’d never find anywhere else!

Picked up a couple of interesting titles (it would have been rude not to!).

https://goodpress.co.uk/

#GoodPress #GoodPressGlasgow #Books #Zines #IndependentBookshop #UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin #ALargerReality #WinterTexts #WithABird #AvianKinship #Onomatopee #OnomatopeeBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Two books on a wooden floor.

On the left is A Larger Reality by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Winter Texts. The book is described as “A Compilation of Poems, Stories, Essays, Talks, and Illustrations”. The cover shows a black and white watercolour of a solitary figure in an ambiguous landscape, perhaps a shoreline with mountains in the distance.

On the right is With a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship published by Onomatopee. The cover shows a stylised symmetrical drawing of talons emerging from a central point. The book “invites readers into an expansive, cross-disciplinary conversation about how we live with and think alongside birds. In a time of climate breakdown and ecological grief, this book offers birds not as metaphors or curiosities, but as kin-creatures with their own histories, desires, and forms of knowing. Spanning speculative fiction, ancestral memory, critical ornithology, personal essay, and visual art, its contributions explore the fragile, often overlooked relationships between humans and birds across myth, science, migration, and dream.”

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Now is the time, through March 31st, to nominate a book of imaginative fiction for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin prize, which anyone is encouraged to do. To find out what kind of books are considered, see what has been shortlisted in previous years, and find the form to make your nomination, here's further information.
#books #reading #UrsulaKLeGuin @bookstodon

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

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