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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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challenging funny informative lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

Just finished this collection of essays by LeGuin. I did the audiobook and the narrator sounded a lot like the writer. It contains some of her best don't-miss essays like Space Crone, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, and A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be. It also has some travel writing I enjoyed this summer while I myself was traveling, and even a piece about an area of my home state in the Midwest. There is also some fun behind the scenes commentary on the making of The Lathe of Heaven movie. There are some essays I thought I probably could miss, though I do like just listening to her. I almost abandoned it when I realized the last 20% was book reviews, but I was glad I didn't because it was surprisingly (or actually no, unsurprisingly) entertaining with some standout commentary on, among other things, the indigenous mythology of the Cascade mountains. I recommend if you love Le Guin like I do, but you can also just read the couple essays I listed at the top, if you haven't already.