Ursula Le Guin

[pameladean]

I'm really going to miss Ursula Le Guin. In the past ten years or so I had come to cherish wholeheartedly her trenchant, take-no-prisoners comments on the state of everything, her calls to hope and action, and her sharp, nourishing sense of humor.

I read the Earthsea books as a teenager, and fell into them wholeheartedly and read them over and over

Comments

[dreamshark]

A lovely, personal remembrance. It is interesting how sometimes we can connect whole-heartedly with one work and when it comes to their other writings the magic just doesn't happen. I'm glad you found several more of her books that worked for you.

[cat_sanctuary]

Dittos! I thought "Well, I like everybody's nonfiction better than their fiction..." I got into LeGuin's novels enough to appreciate their craft, and know that one reason why they weren't my absolute favorites was an underlying philosophical disagreement, but that they were very good novels. (Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, her mainstream mini-novel about sf/f writers, was a favorite. I read so many Teen Romances in high school, because publishers thought that was all high school kids wanted to read, and was so tired of them, that a story where the characters end up trying to recover a real platonic friendship felt like a drink of water in a desert.) But her nonfiction was delightful!