Haven't done a reading Wednesday for awhile

[ritaxis]

I took 3 books out of the library. Changing Planes by Ursula LeGuin: The Sugar Festival by Paul Park: and Probability Moon by Nancy Kress.The second was gruesome (on purpose) and unreadable by me. The third I did not finish because the people annoyed me so much. The first was more or less a meringue: frothy and sweet.

That's all you get. Still using the disability keyboard and it's excruciating. So is voice recognition. And my spare keyboard died the death--it might be 20 years old.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I seem to recall some darker stories in Changing Planes, like the little girl who is kidnapped from the people where adults are silent. But certainly not as heavy as some LeGuin collections.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Even the darker stories seem sort of gentle? I don't know how to describe it. In general, though, I kept thninking "Ursula LeGuin does this and she gets awards, and when I do it it gets flipped back to me because it's not plotty and risky enough. Clearly, I don't do it well enough."