Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin

Space Crone Reviews

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  Emma

  She’s got a point. She’s an icon, she’s a legend and she IS the moment. Now come on now.
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  Lillian Crawford

  A beautifully edited selection of poignant writings by LeGuin (some more poignant than others). I found her references to Woolf particularly astute.
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  Tjaša

  Some good essays in here, but a bit scattered as a collection. Good for die-hard fans though!
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  Whitechocomuffin

  A really weird read from a great writer of that weird fantasy and sci-fi. Le Guins collection of essays is beautiful and still resonant many years after she penned them. Maybe this is what point I am at the moment with my relationship to language and writing, but having another writer talk about gendered language was extremely liberating. Same goes for her later advocacy for working beyond the binary with her essay on the “left hand of darkness”. Le Guin was really a stellar person writing compassionate works.
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  Joana

  “To have and bring up kids is to be about as immersed in life as one can be, but it does not always follow that one drowns. A lot of us can swim.”
  
  
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  “The advantage of motherhood for a woman artist (…) have you ever heard anybody say that before?”
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  jesse mabus

  a brilliant and beautiful mind who never ceases to light up the imagination like a solar storm crashing across the atmosphere's far flung frontiers.
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  Jane

  P****godt!
  Fremhæver især: Sur, The Space Crone, Introducting Myself, Old Body Not Writing.
  Alt i den er værd at læse. LeGuin er bemærkelsesværdig.
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  Amanda Grace

  God, I adore Ursula. I am so sorry I did not know about her when we shared the same plane of existence. It's so strange to immigrate only to find a community supportive of your journeying and thereby fall in love with an author from your home country.
  
  Anyway.
  
  I thought this was an excellent introductory collection to Le Guin, having been first guided to her work via the seminal "Carrier-Bag Theory of Fiction". A bit from each of her writing spheres is included, even a bit of the sci-fi for which she is renowned at the end (though I felt this suffered as
  an excerpt because the editors had to continuously interrupt the narrative—already otherworldly difficult to follow—to explain context given earlier in the novel).
  
  As an artist, I benefitted most from Le Guin's candour about how much of her creative process was just sitting down, shutting up, and waiting. As a person with a uterus, I also felt really emboldened by her celebration of the uterine cycle to feel my own deep integration in nature rather than trying to escape it. In general, if you want to quickly whip your life into a more connected, audacious shape, Le Guin is your author.
  
  
  https://www.tiktok.com/@astuteandkind...
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  Kelly Jean Egan

  While I've read and greatly enjoyed some of LeGuin's novels, this collection brought her into focus for me as a literary grandmother for female writers, carrying forward Woolf's and then Nin's call for women to write and uphold their experiences, and doing so in a candid, unabashed way that I take such strength and nourishment from. Thank you also to Silver Press for outlining LeGuin's embodiment of this archetype by putting together this collection.
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  Alberto Ibañez

  Qué maravilla cómo te abre la mente este libro. Un conjunto maravilloso de textos de esta brillante escritora que disecciona como nadie el estado actual de la literatura y el papel de las mujeres en ella. Sorprendente que se la conozca por sus obras de ciencia ficción. Sutil y certera.
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  Ada Beda

  Några av texterna, framförallt Sur, Bryn Mawr Commencement adress och The fisherwoman's daugther var jättebra, flera av de andra var mer sådär.