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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/

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