You people made me just buy several Mary Stewart books. Damn you.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
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Consuela - Oct 05, 2017 8:08:39 pm PDT #24805 of 28212
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Connie Neil - Oct 06, 2017 5:41:41 am PDT #24806 of 28212
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Beverly - Oct 06, 2017 1:21:12 pm PDT #24807 of 28212
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think Nine Coaches Waiting was my first foray out of kids' chapter books. I've been fond of Stewart ever since. There was a line in one of her books--I've forgotten which--that described a swift mountain stream as Alpine green water. A foreign concept, since in the southern US, most moving water is brown. I was somewhere in the Bavarian Alps when I looked down from a road's edge and saw a swift moving stream that was, in fact, Alpine green.
aurelia - Oct 06, 2017 7:07:37 pm PDT #24808 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I got one since I've never read any of her stuff.
beth b - Oct 06, 2017 9:29:49 pm PDT #24809 of 28212
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just got two of my old favorites - This rough Magic and Moon spinners
Jesse - Oct 07, 2017 3:49:10 pm PDT #24810 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I just read The Left Hand of Darkness for the first time, and... does the book know what a sexist ass Genly Ai is? I wasn't sure.
-t - Oct 07, 2017 6:49:41 pm PDT #24811 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think so, but it's a long time since I read it. I did recently read some short stories in the same world where Ursula (since my sister corresponded with her over email about her interpretation of Taoism and Ms. LeGuin signed all of hers with a friendly "Ursula" we figure the whole family is on a first name basis although I would probably not indulge that if I were to actually talk to her directly. But I digress) explicitly addresses the heteronormative bias apparent in it. In case that clarifies anything for you.
ETA I don't remember that coming up in the Lit class I read it for in college. Male teacher, mostly male students, though. Apparently at some point a student refused to read it because it was "too gay" so our prof was at some pains to tell us it was not gay at all.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2017 6:07:29 am PDT #24812 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I guess it's queer?
I also wanted a line about how he had his facial hair permanently removed before going there, because I'm guessing the Genethians don't have beards?
This is why I don't read classics and/or sci-fi, I guess.
-t - Oct 08, 2017 3:40:15 pm PDT #24813 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You should write to Ursula and ask her about the beard thing.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2017 4:01:29 pm PDT #24814 of 28212
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe I will!
(I won't.)