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Changing Planes
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
11 posts | 13 read | 12 to read
The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly yet familiar societies."
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Bklover
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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Mehso-so

Clever title. Otherwise just not for me. Probably a great book, but I don‘t think LeGuin is for me. I remember reading her in college but I don‘t remember enjoying it. So-so because it really is a clever title/concept. Looking forward to next month‘s #authoramonth
#aam

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andioop
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
Pickpick

This has convinced me of what many have told me before - that Le Guin was a genius

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Books_and_cwtches
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
Pickpick

I adored this book, and it instantly made it into my top 5 all-time favourite reads.

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Hooked_on_books
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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Pickpick

In Changing Planes, Le Guin imagines travelers can use airports to visit different planes of existence, where different human-like beings live. These stories are like an anthropological study of the various planes, some as straight description and others via the experience of a traveler from Earth. I found this completely unique.

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Kenyazero
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Pickpick

Imagine that an anthropologist who was tired of people's ethnocentric shit and lack of scientific understanding (plus a vivid imagination) sarcastically wrote Gulliver's Travels, and you have this book. I don't always enjoy short stories, but these were fun. #anthropology #travel #scifi #FunThingsToDoAtAnAirport

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Bertha_Mason
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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From my library's Overdrive page. Bad cover or the worst cover? 🤐

merelybookish I feel like Le Guin would NOT approve! 6y
Bertha_Mason Yyyyep. Nothing says "feminist speculative fiction" like a gratuitous naked woman. ? 6y
batsy Women of the corn? One almost hopes this awful cover leads to horror. 6y
Bertha_Mason I certainly hope it does. 6y
Kenyazero (I know it's been 2 years, and this is long out of mind by now) It's not an amazing cover, but it's not the worst cover either. It's a fun reference to the first story in the book, which saves it a bit. It is a bit ugly overall, though 🤔 I've seen plenty of feminist work that celebrates the female body by letting her be naked and unsexualized, like we see here. 4y
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shanaqui
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
Pickpick

An enjoyable reread, and though there's whimsy in the premise, there's Le Guin's usual careful thought throughout.

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DGRachel
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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I don‘t have anything on my shelves for #bigjetplane but after a quick Goodreads search, I may need to add this to my #TBR.

#tuneintonovember

Cinfhen Oooh, this sounds good!!! Nice find!!!! 6y
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SarahSaysRead
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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Mehso-so

I'm giving this a so-so because I know I'm biased against short stories (they're the wooorst, argh). There was even short stories WITHIN one of the short stories. 😠 That being said, the idea of travelling to different planes of existence while being stuck in an airport is fun, so... cool?

#shortstories #readharder

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SarahSaysRead
Changing Planes | Ursula K Leguin
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Gym, shower, and then read for 20 minutes or so while getting kitty cuddles is a great way to start the morning. ☀️📚🐈

#currentlyreading #LittenKitten #goodmorning #shortstoriesaretheworst #furbaby #readersgonnaread #readharder

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PacingTheCage
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