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RIP Ursula Le Guin

Ursula Le Guin 1929-2018

Deaths of famous people don't usually bother me much but I am saddened by the death of Ursula K. Le Guin today. She was a firey human who seemed to be on the right side of things. Her social critiques, veiled as fiction, were always right on and you could tell that she had a deep love for the Earth. Her essay A Very Warm Mountain is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever and really blew my mind when I first read it. She'll be missed. Rest in peace Ursula!

2017 Reading List

Ecotopia Emerging-Ernest Callenbach
The Buried Giant-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Course of Love-Alain de Botton
Steppenwolf-Herman Hesse
Resistance-Barry Lopez
Death in Spring-Merce Rodoreda
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen-Alan Gardner
The Moon of Gomrath-Alan Gardner
Boneland-Alan Gardner
The Holy-Daniel Quinn
The Dog Stars-Peter Heller
Riddley Walker-Russell Hoban
The World and Other Places-Jeanette Winterson
Black Sun-Edward Abbey
The Fifth Life of the Catwoman-Kathleen Dexter
The Woodwife-Terri Windling
The Chronology of Water-Lidia Yuknavitch
Biogea-Michel Serres
The Heart Goes Last-Margaret Atwood
The Ocean at the End of the Lane-Neil Gaiman
The Leftovers-Tom Perotta
Vic and Blood-Harlan Ellison
The Names of the Stars-Pete Fromm
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said-Phillip K. Dick
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist-Paul Kingsnorth
The Hill-Jean Giono
Diane, Herself-Martha Beck
Jesus' Son-Denis Johnson
Bear-Marian Engel
Sweeney Astray-Seamus Heaney
Descent of Alette-Alice Notley
The Wild Robot-Peter Brown
A Single Man-Christopher Isherwood
Wild Comfort-Kathleen Dean Moore
The Wild Within-Paul Rezendes
Sleep, Death's Brother-Jesse Ball
A Grief Observed-C.S. Lewis
Meditations on Hunting-Jose Ortega y Gasset
Borne-Jeff VanderMeer