retired-librarian.bsky.social
Retired librarian, sometime artist, vegetable gardener, #BannedBookSkyClub instigator
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I'd argue that one of LeGuin's messages was that no person can truly be objective. We can try to keep an open mind, and consider every option, but it is ironically more honest to admit to how our own emotions and background shape how we perceive our experiences.
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Exactly. And if it were all objective, it might make for a colder story than Gethen/Winter itself.
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I'll eat anything chocolate.
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I like to tell stories and do embellish at times but also keep the core truth. Or I should say Truth.
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I was a shy teen.
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There's a few ways to interpret it. The capital T Truth does have some significance it must otherwise it wouldn't be there. It used to be True that the earth was in the center of the universe, now we "know" it orbits around the sun. The observations of one person I don't think can ever be 100% true
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Starts you off at the end, but also the beginning. Tells you it's a report but also a story. Imagination is needed to understand truth.
Light is the left hand of darkness ...
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It felt more like personal journaling, which was what Estraven's chapters actually were.
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I had similar thoughts. And, was it a way to have the report/journal structure but also add a nonobjective element to the story?
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"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination."
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I would do coffee and chocolate.
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Roy Orbison? No, I would've remembered that. Love his music.
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I'm looking forward to reading it.
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It made me sad when Tibe fomented unrest, and they seemed to be heading toward all-out war.
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Welcome back!
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I finally broke down and followed you since you've been posting about libraries and librarians, though it kind of feels like bait.
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I love a good pen.
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A good pen makes all the difference.
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May be why I waited a bit between the two.
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
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I agree. I think it would be disastrous.
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Great glad you might. I had a typo that messed up a hashtag so deleted and reposted. You were too quick for me!
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Timeless.
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This will be my first time reading, and I'm looking forward to it. I've read Beloved, twice, and The Bluest Eye.
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Sometimes I affiliate the main character's beliefs with the author and have to remind myself they're not the same. The book is a reflection of the times but also revolutionary in its exploration of genders.
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Go to feed link below, click on three dots at top right for options to like/pin.
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Thank you for finding and sharing!
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You're very welcome!
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Let’s see….a sexually ambiguous species of human, gender-fluidity, kemmerhouses, no rigid roles or subservience for women, a female starship commander. So many choices to render the narrow-minded apoplectic.
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As with anything that doesn’t conform to dogma and rigid social structures, the conservative “family values” folks manage their discomfort by making it inaccessible to everyone. They’re threatened that Genly grows in understanding that gender is a social construct; they choose rigidity over growth.
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I don't read much either. I enjoyed it, I think, because it focused more on relationships than futurism type stuff.
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Which reflects how much of us feel lately about sexism/misogyny. Will it ever end?
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I noticed and thought it reflected Le Guin's pessimism about the future a bit. Ai is dark-skinned so I took that as a sign that maybe racism has largely ended in this imagined future but sexism has not. I thought it helped maintain the story's tension.
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And binary were the "perverts."