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2010 Reading #99: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
94. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin.
95. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith.
96. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.
97. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
98. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Edith Grossman (Re-read).
99. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Four interconnected short stories (I suspect that most if not all are technically novellas) about the worlds Werel and Yeowe, and their emergence from systems of slavery and gender imbalance. There are echoes here of Anarres and Urras, from The Dispossessed, but neither of these worlds has even the appearance of a utopia; the process of liberation is messy, heartbreaking, and bloody. Three of the four stories take a sort of Dickensian approach, taking in the scope of an entire life (or lives) in a way that could easily go wrong, but Le Guin--unsurprisingly--makes it all work. It's notable, too, that these stories all have an element of romance to them, or at least of coming together and mutual healing; this doesn't seem to me typical of her work, and I think it's symbolic of the forgiveness referenced in the title. More great stuff from Le Guin.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
94. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin.
95. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith.
96. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.
97. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
98. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Edith Grossman (Re-read).
99. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Four interconnected short stories (I suspect that most if not all are technically novellas) about the worlds Werel and Yeowe, and their emergence from systems of slavery and gender imbalance. There are echoes here of Anarres and Urras, from The Dispossessed, but neither of these worlds has even the appearance of a utopia; the process of liberation is messy, heartbreaking, and bloody. Three of the four stories take a sort of Dickensian approach, taking in the scope of an entire life (or lives) in a way that could easily go wrong, but Le Guin--unsurprisingly--makes it all work. It's notable, too, that these stories all have an element of romance to them, or at least of coming together and mutual healing; this doesn't seem to me typical of her work, and I think it's symbolic of the forgiveness referenced in the title. More great stuff from Le Guin.
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