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    <body><![CDATA[I liked some of the short stories in this book and didn't really care about some of the others. Some were mildly depressing (not flat-out depressing, but not happy) and I didn't get too much out of them, though I have enough respect for Le Guin to know that this is probably because I didn't fully un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38733222">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is possibly the most nonlinear book I have read. It’s a collection of short stories. It just might have been a little over my head. <br/><br/>I enjoyed the personality sketches, or little snatches of various people’s lives. I was hoping she would bring them together and have them interact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48639351">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not entirely sure if it should be a three- or four-star rating, I plumped for the lower because, though I did like parts of it a lot, in the end it's purposefully disjointed. There are two sections; the first part is stories or snippets about people in modern-day seaside small town Klatsand, and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46351220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ms. LeGuin's essays on dreams and the transient ways of life.  Stories that leave me in a slightly higher plane than when I began.  Set in the magical Northwest Pacific coast.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard for me to rate this one, because it made me work a little harder than I really wanted to.  It is called a novel, but it is really a series of short stories and a novella that are all related.  In style, it's almost as much poetry as it is prose, and like poetry, it's sometimes hard to teas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63234301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Searoad is lovely. Quiet, reflective, a little melancholic. Perhaps not the best thing to choose to read on Christmas Day/Boxing Day, but at the same time, I'm glad I read it. Ursula Le Guin always writes beautifully, always makes me feel, always makes me want to write. I'm full of shapeless, formle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70862012">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the my first Ursula LeGuin book.  I didn't research it good enough to realize that it wasn't her usual science fiction or fantasy story so I ended up being disappointed.  She writes with clarity but the collection of 12 stories seemed uninvolved and simplistic.  Did I just miss the point? ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure yet how I feel about this book. It was beautifully written, but sometimes so emotionally bare that I felt like I was intruding on the characters' privacy.... a voyeur. It was very much Ursula Le Guin, even without any fantasy elements involved.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite collections of all time, and definitely my favorite LeGuin (so far).  The spectacular closing piece, really a novella, I believe, &quot;Hearnes,&quot; can still get to me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was nice to see how things turned out for all the Earthsea folks, but it was not my favorite of the cycle. It seemed like a lot of exposition, and then all of a sudden there was the climax and the book ended. I thought it was interesting how the ending solution was so similar to that in the Amber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/584940">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't read it.  Abandoned after 80 pages or so.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Le Guin gives us character vignettes from a beach community in Oregon. This book has such a cozy tone to it which evoked my own Oregon beach memories. I especially liked the chapter called <em>True Love</em> in which &quot;a woman unmated but contented generally learns to hide her contentment so as not to sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18779656">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book on the way to my 20th high school reunion, because I found a cheap copy in the bookstore in my old town.  It's different from most of her books - it's subdued + melancholy, fitting the subject, stories about a small wet town on the Oregon coast.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories were amazing to read. My favorite parts were when  Le Guin  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Ursula K. Le Guin" title=" Ursula K. Le Guin"> Ursula K. Le Guin</a> tied nature to humans through descriptors and metaphor. She did an awesome job of giving life to this community.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved how LeGuin changes point of view constantly throughout this book and does not return to any of them. It is a real study in thinking about what things look from a different perspective.]]></body>
    
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