Not hokum

In No Time to Spare, Ursula K. Le Guin reflects on sisterhood, uniforms, children’s misspellings, soft-boiled eggs, motels & resorts, Darwin & Homer, a rattlesnake’s gaze, growing old, and growing up. We sense her inwardness, independence, irreverence. Yet she’s the opposite of opinionated. We read the chapters slowly, seeing how-to-pause, seeing how night after night work stays joyful, seeing gentleness with proprieties of many kinds.