{"product_id":"no-time-to-spare","title":"No Time to Spare","description":"Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\n\"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . \" — Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review\nFrom acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.\nUrsula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”\nOn cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”\nOn breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.”\nUrsula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula’s blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1328507971\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1328507971.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Le Guin, Ursula\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41491983827002,"sku":"DBV.1328507971.VG","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1328507971-0.jpg?v=1782669899","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/no-time-to-spare","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}