Tyler

I've never been so quickly hooked. Since the intro bade me consider the preconceptions and even physicality involved with embarking on a read, my consciousness re: the act of reading has exploded. Now I can’t help but adjourn from the commotion of the bus and give everything of myself to the tomes toted in my lap. Or perhaps the substance of the stuff is made in those moments where my gaze wanders?…sometimes both or neither

Anyway, this is mildly philosophical but so playful. How could I call its narratives a gimmick when Calvino is often anticipating and eluding my exact attitudes?

Nearly perfect but for hard and unfocused male gaze (unless you’re among those readers privately seeking this, too). I expect anyone who reads any fiction for any reason would find some resonance here

The Mathemagician from The Phantom Tollbooth has been real quiet since this dropped

It’s not a long list but, certainly the best graphic novel adaptation I’ve encountered. And not due to the preservation of the original text—like Ogion the Silent and Le Guin before him, Fred Fordham knows the truth of, “Only in silence, the word.” These stunning images render an Earthsea suffused with shadow and light, such that the reader turns within themself to form the edges and chart their course

No doubt Le Guin wrote this in a room of her own. Perhaps facing west. Mine is the weakness that her strength seeks

Not simply a book for readers and writers of fantasy/sci-fi but anyone who feels sincerely for art at all. Le Guin toppled barriers of industry with her groundbreaking fiction, but here she turns our attention to the artistic walls of our own making. Through the language of the night itself, she illuminates our responsibility and privilege to engage with our collective unconscious and embrace truth in writing. For when we refuse to accept anything lesser, this still-evolving literature of unreal creatures, technologies, possibilities presents a truth of our time more "real" than anything else