"The moss reprints more tenderly / The hard types of the mason's knife"

It's Wednesday, and I've been reading, so it's a Reading Wednesday post:

Finished (!) Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin, a reread. Still very good -- possibly even essential reading for a certain type of misfit teen. Not surprisingly, Le Guin nails the voice of a bright teenage boy a lot better than Haldeman the voice of a bright teenage girl.

Newly in progress are For the Time Being by W.H. Auden, another seasonal reread, and Hawk by Steven Brust, the most recent (I think still?) Vlad Taltos novel -- this one's a Vlad-pulls-a-caper story, and as of a quarter the way in, it looks to be a fun one.

Continuing progress are The Library of the World's Best Literature, which has pushed me to finally try Balzac, plus translations of Chinese poetry by David Hinton and Sam Hammel.

---L.

Subject quote from "My Heart and I," Elizabeth Barrett Browning.