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1) Tagged. It was sooooo good.
2) Feed. Sorry Mira Grant fans, it just wasn‘t for me.
3) I‘m looking forward to the sequels of The Poppy War and Children of Blood and Bone
4) Yup and I‘m so boned. I always set a goal of 52 books a year but I‘ve been in the mood for dense epic series. I don‘t think I‘ll hit this goal when reading WoT.
@laurenslibrary #ThursdaySurvey

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

📘 Still working on The Memory Tree and The Left Hand of Darkness. I thought I would be able to read more in the evenings after BookExpo but every night I have been dead on my feet.
📘 To finish the 2 books in #1!
📘 Just last night recommend Recursion to my fellow Littens!

Finally it‘s #12Littens12books time!

Should this be my first Le Guin?

Weekend reads on a Manhattan-bound train. My cousin is getting married 👰🏼🤵🏻 tomorrow so our whole clan is making the trek up the eastern seaboard, my little 🧒🏼 included! #babysfirsttrainride #babysfirsttriptoNY 🚆🏙

Finally finished last months book for #12littens12books (sorry for being late)
It made Yoda a bit tired as he‘s still just a baby.I also had some struggles with it,but am happy I finished it, I ended up being really intrigued.There are so many interesting and important thoughts in it,especially regarding the time when it was written. Winter-a world without gender, without war-what an interesting place to travel to, even if only in the book. 3/5⭐️

Picked up these gorgeous covers at Desperate Literature in Madrid 😍 A lovely visit, as always.

A great book that explores gender and society on a different world.

Man, what an amazing book. Le Guin makes so many bold statements about the nature of gender and society in this book. I love fluffy books every now and then but I always gravitate towards authors that have something important to say. I‘ll absolutely be processing this book for awhile. Thank you so much for sending me this book @vivastory ! I truly enjoyed it.

Sunshine, blooming apple tree and my book for #12littens12books - what better way to spend a day off😍

I‘m not a patient woman, lol.

Thank you so much @vivastory for the beautiful #sffs package. I haven‘t read either of these books and the covers are so beautiful. The tote is awesome and the socks are great! I‘ll be taking this tea to work with me! I really do appreciate the package and I can‘t wait to get into these books. 😀 @Avanders

This months #12littens12books book arrived with a few lovely surprises😍 thanks so much @Sarah83

Well not my cup of tea... Sorry... But I finished it, even if I had to change the language... If I would stick to English, I wouldn't made it today... 😑 #12Littens12books

@ju.ca.no it will be on its way tomorrow 😉

Finally getting some reading done... I hope, I finish the tagged book within the next two days 🤔

Hey, Litsy, who else is readathoning today? For a number of reasons, I‘ve had a terrible last few weeks of (not) reading. I started these back in December and still haven‘t finished them. My big goal today is to finally get these marked as read. #deweysreadathon

For the first time since four months I finally have time for a lunch break... Trying to read a few pages for my current #12littens12books ....

Didn't get much reading done within the last days... Now sitting on the train for the next hours.... Hope to read a bit... 😴😴😴

It‘s my birthday! 🎂
Thank you all you beautiful people who have sent me cards, I feel very special! Thanks especially to @robinb for the bookmark and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie for the book ‘Mexico‘.
I had a lovely time just browsing the shelves of a book store today and I came home with the tagged book, lucky me!❤️
#Litsylove
@whatsthEStorey @throwmeabook @Stacypatrice @Kerrioke @LaurensLibrary @aroc @CoffeeNBooks @Bookwormjillk

I stayed up too late reading this one, but it was worth it, I think. This book was written in 1969, and I do find myself curious to find out how contemporary readers find it, now that we have more vocabulary to talk about gender outside of the binary. I‘d heard Le Guin, herself, give an interview where she said she‘d have done things differently, particularly with pronouns. In any event, I thought the book was very good.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, and I‘m taking the opportunity to fix this hole in my reading history.

#QuotsyMar19 Day 16: #Information - I vote for sleep! 🤣😭🧚🏼‍♀️📚

Yesterday during #bookanddinner i finally finished #12Littens12Books read which (as expected) i enjoyed. Ursula K LeGuin just knows how to deliver timeless complex sci-fi/fantasy that both connects with traditional going-on-a-quest entertainment AND contemporary meta/sociological/political/spiritual discourse resulting in a great foundation for a book series.

I get why people like Ursula Le Guin but this is just not for me. Such a slog - I liked some of the ideas she was playing with but I found myself skimming quite a bit, especially as she seemed to go back and cover the same territory over and over... There were enough moments where I did connect and I can see how she's good at what she's doing, but in the same way I don't want to read political manifestos for fun, this is not my thing.

I have three blankets on as I'm reading, this frigid planet sounds like hell. ❄️❄️❄️

Admittedly, I struggled to get into this book. Of its 300 pages, it took about 130 before I really felt interest and I even, briefly, considered bailing. But I am so glad I didn‘t. I didn‘t care for the main character at the start and disliked reading his narrative, but he goes through some pretty tremendous character growth. By the end I was deeply invested in each new page. If you‘re giving it a read and aren‘t sure at first, stick with it.

“How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one‘s country; is it hate of one‘s uncountry? Then it‘s not a good thing.”

#booksandbreakfast in the sun after a hard weekend ☀️#12littens12books

Back home! Plowing through this one for Book Club next weekend. It also felt so good to put together a salad for myself after a week of mai tai‘s and laying by the pool!

@Avanders is hosting a #ScifiFantasySwap❗️I‘m in, and you⁉️

It took @DuckOfDoom into the tub with me - her #12Littens12Books choich that is. #bookandbath

Here are a few of my books that could be options for this round of #LMPBC. @Avanders @Chrissyreadit if none of these appeal to you I can always buy something new.😉 I'll tag the rest of the books in the comments if you want to look at them.

Read this for a WhatsApp bookclub that I organize.
It was my second reading and I still love it!

#bookandinner with my #12littens12books read and i‘m loving it so far, even though i haven‘t gotten the plot yet 🙈👌

Currently reading.. #bookstack

Sorry for my lighting BUT this soup was delicious (kale, orzo, sausage) and I am really looking forward to our next book club pick. Who has read it? I‘m hoping it gives me The Sparrow vibes... please tell me it will!

Reading LeGuin high in the sky above New Mexico.

I‘m starting this one next as well. I‘m going to annotate and trade with a friend (that idea came from someone on here, but I can‘t remember who!! I‘ll tag them in the comments if I can find their post about it). I‘ve wanted to read her for a while, and I think this‘ll be a good one to annotate and trade. I‘m looking forward to writing in it quite a lot!

#quotsydec18 @TK-421
Prompt: Goals

Nothing like a book on the beach!

Reading at my favorite bar. Living my best life 🍻 📚 Gotta love it when people interrupt you to tell you how impressed they are because they could never read in such low lighting or with so many loud distractions. I guess I had a lot of practice 😂

"In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence and of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?"

Loved this thought-provoking sci-fi novel. In it a human male is sent as ambassador to a planet called Winter where the inhabitants do not have a fixed gender...they develop into male or female only once a cycle in order to procreate. Like all good science fiction the book makes the reader think about our own culture and attitudes towards gender. This is a slow and thoughtful book...no space battles or lasers.
#awinterstale. #WinterWonderland

What a cool story! It leaves the reader with much to ponder. I look forward to reading more from Le Guin‘s Hainish Cycle! (Also, I will miss Genly Ai)

I‘ve been reading Ursula Le Guin‘s Left Hand of Darkness and I kept thinking this character sounded familiar...

#readingat50

I‘m not a big science fiction reader, and I struggled to get going with this book. It felt very disjointed at first. But the last 100 pages were wonderful and made me glad I‘d hung in there. Le Guin is clearly brilliant, her vocabulary and facility with language is impressive, and her commentary on gender and identity are insightful. There was a lot to appreciate, but I can‘t say that I just loved it. Glad to have finally read this author though.

For me, it is a typical so-so-book. Sometimes it is a boring story, but than it has also thrilling sections. It isn't an easy reader book and have much interesting and important themes to talk about. I understand why LeGuin got an award for the book. It isn't an book for relaxtion. #scifi #fantasy

I read it for #12Littens12books

Perfect time for a #readathon I have to read only some pages to finished the tagged book. We'll read us in the next days.

#25infive #25andcapsule

Thanks to @Andrew65 for the information

”I know people, I know towns, farms, hills; but what is the sense of giving boundaries to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one‘s country: is it hate of one‘s uncountry?”
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”I have fasted now one day, and my belly screams. A week! A month!”
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”He was a shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.”
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