No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

An Amazon Best Book of December 2017: Ursula K. Le Guin is comfortable with her age. Or at least she’s comfortable with the fact that it’s not a completely comfortable arrangement. In the opener to this collection of personal essays, Le Guin notes that, now that she’s in her eighties, all her time is occupied by the activities of life—she has no spare time and no time to spare. Le Guin is a thoughtful and careful writer, and so her opinions are thoughtfully and carefully organized. She knows what she thinks, and she writes so well that you’ll want to return to these candid essays—the product of a blog she started when she was 81 years old—like returning to an older, wiser friend. —Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review

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• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
• Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315): Author's Expanded Edition (Library of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
• The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel
• The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)