Una McCormack
Posted in Writers on Oct 21st, 2009
Happy 80th birthday, Ursula Le Guin! Hardly a day goes by without me finding yet another sentence of yours that I love, but here are a few more I found yesterday, from the 1986 Bryn Mawr Commencement Address: “…when women speak truly they speak subversively–they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, [...]
Posted in Writers on Oct 15th, 2009
Originally post on the Wiscon LJ here. Email from Vonda N. McIntyre: “Hi everybody, Ursula K. Le Guin’s 80th birthday is on 21 October 2009 and I’m going to post a Happy Birthday Ursula message on my website and my blogs that day, and I think I have some other folks talked into doing the [...]
Posted in Writers on Apr 30th, 2009
I am so pleased that Powers, the third book in Le Guin’s trilogy Annals of the Western Shore has won a sixth Nebula for her. It is the most remarkable book about the quest for freedom, identity, self-knowledge. Reading it felt like being given a gift of wisdom and craft. The other books are splendid, [...]
Posted in Writers on Jan 31st, 2009
Not to turn this journal into a constant Le Guin lovefest, but I finished up her anthology The Birthday of the World yesterday. Even when she’s at her weakest (the title story, for example) she’s pretty damn good. But I wanted mostly to blog impressions of the last, long story (novella) in the book, ‘Paradises [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Music, Writers on Jan 17th, 2009
I can’t believe how much better I feel. Last weekend I was tottering around and my immune system felt like a fragile lace around me. This weekend I’m leaping around like a young gazelle. Well, actually I’m snuggled up in the house in front of my computer, but that’s a lot livelier than last week. [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Television, Writers, Writing on May 23rd, 2008
I haven’t updated in a while properly, have I? So today I shall. I’ve been busy writing. Which is obviously good, but it turns me into a bit of a hermit who fails to notice the passage of time. I seem to have hit a creative vein at the moment, which means I’m likely to [...]
I’ve put off reading Le Guin’s Always Coming Home for years, because I knew I wasn’t ready for it. And then I knew that I was, and I loved it to bits, even though I keep waking up faintly depressed to remember that I don’t in fact live in a world like that. Never mind, [...]
@cathoderaytube Happy birthday, sir! - posted on 06/09/2010 12:53:49@JasonArnopp Good morning, you merry pine marten. - posted on 06/09/2010 08:33:34@JasonArnopp Mornin' Marvin. - posted on 05/09/2010 09:47:00
@unamccormack Definitely Dodie Smith, as that's the reference I remember @gervase_fen telling me. - posted on 04/09/2010 18:50:43@ParrotKnight Don't know if he was friends with PL Travers too! - posted on 04/09/2010 18:49:46