No Time to Spare

<p><b>'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' Margaret Atwood</b><br><br>Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. <br><br>The collected best of Ursula's blog, <i>No Time to Spare</i> presents perfectly crystallised dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it.<br><br>Ursula Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: 'If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.'<br><br>On cultural perceptions of fantasy: 'The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is "escapism" an accusation of?'<br><br>On breakfast: 'Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.'</p>