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7. Always Coming Home is my favorite of hers. That and the Earthsea series...

Sun May 19, 2019, 11:49 AM

May 2019

She has books of collected criticism and commentaries -- a couple of shelves in my personal library are devoted to her output.

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Ursula K. Le Guin: "We are not great powers. But we are the light." [View all] babylonsister May 2019 OP

Great post malaise May 2019 #1

Damn, no wonder I loved her books. lark May 2019 #2

Loved her books Farmer-Rick May 2019 #3

Her parents were Alfred and Theodora Krober, very intelligent parents. PufPuf23 May 2019 #12

Thank you! I had no idea! lunatica May 2019 #14

Her family was hardly "average" Taraman May 2019 #4

Yet she tells the truths every female had to fear back then. BlancheSplanchnik May 2019 #5

Why so? Farmer-Rick May 2019 #13

Ursula K. Le Guin was a brilliant light. hunter May 2019 #8

I read the Wizard of Earth Sea yuiyoshida May 2019 #9

Powerful. Personal. Compelling. Martin Eden May 2019 #10

Kicking for a new week Hekate May 2019 #15