Not my favorite of Le Guin’s work. There were some of these that I got the impression I will perhaps like better when I’m older. Right now, I think I like Le Guin best when she is formulating a truly fictional landscape - I love her creativity and humanity there. This includes much of her realist fiction, which is just a genre I’m not into very much at the moment. There were a couple of standouts: Unlocking the Air, The Diary of the Rose, May’s Lion, Buffalo Gals Wont You Come Out Tonight, and Ether, OR were my favorites, and they more than made this collection worth reading for their beauty and intelligence.

The rest of the works were still written well, just didn’t grab me as much. Thankful to have read them and have them jostling around in my brain. 3/5 just because there were more that didn’t leave an impression than ones that did.