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Year of Le Guin: conclusion
Dec. 28th, 2024 08:29 pmi decided somewhere around May that in 2024, i was going to try to read or reread as many books by Ursula K. Le Guin as i could. here are the results:
1. Earthsea Quartet
i have read Earthsea 1-4 in Finnish many years ago - twice, i think - but last year i bought an English edition because it was cheap and impressively ugly. it's hot pink and a yassified Sparrowhawk(?) glares at me from the books spine over in the bookshelf.
2. Always Coming Home
read for the first time, as an audiobook. it's a really cool book in general, and the audiobook includes an appendix with some recordings of Kesh music (including, if i'm not mistaken, Le Guin herself breaking into laughter mid-song).
3. Worlds of Exile and Illusion
a bind-up of the first three Hain novels; Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusion. i enjoyed the middle one the most.
4. Space Crone
a collection of essays and speeches. includes some good stuff, but also a piece on abortion that, while arguing a pro-choice position, managed to be so offensive that i wrote a whole post about it.
5. Tales from Earthsea
listened to this as an audiobook. i vaguely remember trying to read Earthsea 5-6 in Finnish long ago, but couldn't get into it. nothing seemed familiar, so i guess i didn't get very far back then.
6. Les Dépossédés
i'm sure i've written about The Dispossessed before. i read the Finnish translation Osattomien planeetta twice and wasn't very impressed, then upon a third read it became one of my favourite books, i've read it in English after that, and for reasons i can't quite remember i decided to buy it in French as well. i buddy read it with my partner.
7. The Other Wind
first read, audiobook.
8. The Wind's Twelve Quarters
a collection of short stories i bought last year.
9. Five Ways to Forgiveness
a really beautiful edition.
unlike Le Guin when she wrote these stories, i still remembered the planet Werel from Planet of Exile, and was consequently confused for a whole while before figuring out that this was a different planet called Werel instead of a radically-changed one.
10. The Word for World is Forest
i've read the Finnish translation before.
11. The Birthday of the World
a collection of short stories, all but two set in the Hain universe. i liked the stories set on O particularly.
1. Earthsea Quartet
i have read Earthsea 1-4 in Finnish many years ago - twice, i think - but last year i bought an English edition because it was cheap and impressively ugly. it's hot pink and a yassified Sparrowhawk(?) glares at me from the books spine over in the bookshelf.
2. Always Coming Home
read for the first time, as an audiobook. it's a really cool book in general, and the audiobook includes an appendix with some recordings of Kesh music (including, if i'm not mistaken, Le Guin herself breaking into laughter mid-song).
3. Worlds of Exile and Illusion
a bind-up of the first three Hain novels; Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusion. i enjoyed the middle one the most.
4. Space Crone
a collection of essays and speeches. includes some good stuff, but also a piece on abortion that, while arguing a pro-choice position, managed to be so offensive that i wrote a whole post about it.
5. Tales from Earthsea
listened to this as an audiobook. i vaguely remember trying to read Earthsea 5-6 in Finnish long ago, but couldn't get into it. nothing seemed familiar, so i guess i didn't get very far back then.
6. Les Dépossédés
i'm sure i've written about The Dispossessed before. i read the Finnish translation Osattomien planeetta twice and wasn't very impressed, then upon a third read it became one of my favourite books, i've read it in English after that, and for reasons i can't quite remember i decided to buy it in French as well. i buddy read it with my partner.
7. The Other Wind
first read, audiobook.
8. The Wind's Twelve Quarters
a collection of short stories i bought last year.
9. Five Ways to Forgiveness
a really beautiful edition.
unlike Le Guin when she wrote these stories, i still remembered the planet Werel from Planet of Exile, and was consequently confused for a whole while before figuring out that this was a different planet called Werel instead of a radically-changed one.
10. The Word for World is Forest
i've read the Finnish translation before.
11. The Birthday of the World
a collection of short stories, all but two set in the Hain universe. i liked the stories set on O particularly.
