No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."

On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"

On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime."

Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 12/05/2017
ISBN: 9781328661593
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2017 pg. 55
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2017
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2017
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 14
Library Journal 12/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/08/2017