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.

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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."