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Tag Archives: Ursula K Le Guin
Oh, yeah. I have this blog thingy.
On my refrigerator are three “apologies” I’ve collected over the years: Up top: from an old cartoon in The New Yorker. Middle: from Tina Fey’s series, Great News. Below: I can’t remember the source, so I’ll just say “author unknown … Continue reading
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Tagged Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Ursula K Le Guin
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WITCH WEEK DAY SIX: The Genius of Ursula K Le Guin
Le Guin’s fantasy fans will recognize these few lines from The Creation of Éa, her imagined mythology of Earthsea: Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life; bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky. … Continue reading
WITCH WEEK DAY FIVE: Discussion of The Other Wind
Chris, Lizzie and Lory approached this discussion of The Other Wind, this year’s readalong book, not as a Q/A session, but rather as responses developing over time and in conversation with each other. Below: the edited version, with sections that … Continue reading
WITCH WEEK MASTER POST
… Witch Week, when there is so much magic around in the world that all sorts of peculiar things happen… — from Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones Welcome to the fifth annual Witch Week, an opportunity to celebrate our … Continue reading
Something witchy this way comes
Originally posted on Calmgrove:
Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series is like Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, one of those secondary worlds that I’ve found I’ve needed to revisit every so often. I’m not the only one, I know, that — however…
Ramping up for Witch Week
The days are getting cooler and shorter, the nights are getting nippier and longer. And you know what this means…. WITCH WEEK is only a month away. Calmgrove and I will be co-hosting the event (30 October to 06 November), with … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Feminism+Fantasy, Witch Week
Tagged Diana Wynne Jones, Ursula K Le Guin
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Do the math
Some days I think I’m an idiot, but other days the proof that I really am an idiot smacks me in the forehead. Ursula K Le Guin’s The Wizard of Earthsea was published in 1968. That’s 50 years ago, folks. … Continue reading
Magic, menace and the mundane
Originally posted on Calmgrove:
Ursula Le Guin: Tehanu: the Last Book of Earthsea in The Earthsea Quartet Puffin/Penguin Books 1993 (1990) As a fantasy novel Tehanu is a tough read: it touches on child abuse, rape, misogyny, prejudice, paranoia, xenophobia,…
Early warning: WITCH WEEK IS COMING
My co-conspirator (Calmgrove at this website) is traveling, but I’m certain he’ll be posting similar information as soon as he returns. WITCH WEEK. This is a yearly event named after the third book in Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci series. The … Continue reading
Early Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975) (read as an e-book from the NYPL) This collection of seventeen short stories and novellas, all published before 1975, includes several that Le Guin considers “germinal”, that is, leading to two … Continue reading
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