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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The Wild Girls is lovely and dreadful, the poetry is beautiful and strange, and the essay bits are... About 1/3 really clever thoughts expressed flawlessly and 2/3 Le Guin being an unabashed crank. Shed certainly earned the right, and she makes fun of JKR a lot (like, a lot a lot) so it's pretty fun.
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Aaaaamaaaazzzing, as always. Ursula rarely misses for me. And even her misses are leagues better than most author’s wins.
This is a super short book featuring a fictional short story/novella, two essays, a few poems and an interview with Ursula.
Every piece of this, including the interview, showcase Ursula’s insights and her ability to tightly and plainly say very much in few words.
She’s one of those authors that makes me feel like my brain, essence and worldview are being poked at their very core.
The short story here was the standout for me. Part sci-fi, part fantasy … part whatever the hell it wants to be. Depressing but hopeful, ugly and beautiful. Her ability to do immense world building in absolutely no time and maintain a real subtlety and beauty in the process is mind blowing. Contemporary fantasy authors just aren’t doin it like her, sorry.
A great read if you like Ursula, but probably not a good place to start with her. You’ll get a lot more out of it if you’re already familiar with some of her work.
This is a super short book featuring a fictional short story/novella, two essays, a few poems and an interview with Ursula.
Every piece of this, including the interview, showcase Ursula’s insights and her ability to tightly and plainly say very much in few words.
She’s one of those authors that makes me feel like my brain, essence and worldview are being poked at their very core.
The short story here was the standout for me. Part sci-fi, part fantasy … part whatever the hell it wants to be. Depressing but hopeful, ugly and beautiful. Her ability to do immense world building in absolutely no time and maintain a real subtlety and beauty in the process is mind blowing. Contemporary fantasy authors just aren’t doin it like her, sorry.
A great read if you like Ursula, but probably not a good place to start with her. You’ll get a lot more out of it if you’re already familiar with some of her work.
Lovely gem, if far too short. One sad tale where an absence of a solution does not mean the absence of right and wrong, beautifully written. Poems, an essay and an interview. More pelase.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
The first story is a rough read. The essays are very provocative, especially the one on modesty.
Incredibly sad, but wonderfully written. I only wish we could've had a full novel in this strange world Le Guin created, but it is a lovely short story.
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
So the Wild Girls- that has to be an Antigone thing, right?
I found it dark yet illuminating, but it wasn't my favorite of Ursula's shorts. I have a high bar!
The poetry was mediocre I think her strength has always lied in her world building which is wayhard to do in a free verse poem
The essays cracked me up. One thing I love about Ursula is she is always going to explain what she means. She is one of the best and brightest and that doesn't mean she has to be inaccessible. I loved when she said that instead of rejecting the label of scifi writer because scifi wasn't "literature", she would instead make it literature and do it by writing well. Yas
I found it dark yet illuminating, but it wasn't my favorite of Ursula's shorts. I have a high bar!
The poetry was mediocre I think her strength has always lied in her world building which is wayhard to do in a free verse poem
The essays cracked me up. One thing I love about Ursula is she is always going to explain what she means. She is one of the best and brightest and that doesn't mean she has to be inaccessible. I loved when she said that instead of rejecting the label of scifi writer because scifi wasn't "literature", she would instead make it literature and do it by writing well. Yas