isunshower | busy busy busy (with a side of more le guin!)

a good friend of mine mailed me a copy of the dispossessed over the winter holidays and i only just now got around to reading it. fortunately for my reading habits, it's now warm outside, which means that at my job-job i get to sit outside and read half the day. this is where i read almost the entirety of this book. the rest of it i read in the park between internship and rehearsal.

the busy, btw, is not going away. my internship has asked me to stay on for the summer and i think i'm going to take them up on it because of resume reasons and also iirc they have to pay me more if i stay and i am all about having more money so. yknow. that and the three choirs and the quartet and being on the admin team for the failing-est of the three choirs and family obligations and roommate obligations and and and.

anyway, the book. it's good. le guin's parents were anthropologists and that really shows in her writing. such well thought out worldbuilding, i'm fascinated by it. a really big part of anthropology - like, foundational, original anthropological theory i mean - is the concept of making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. i want to say that's a ruth benedict thing? maybe m*linowski? anyway. le guin is really good at that. i loved how thoroughly she made shevek's life seem normal and daily life on urras, so much more similar to our own world, seem so strange.