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Yesterday low energy, for all of us; nothing seemed in focus. It was hard to motivate, despite the heavenly skies. Today started off rather well, and continued nicely.
Finished the Le Guin book, and started a collection of Joyce Carol Oates's short storie titled Heat. They were published in the early 1990's, and are centered around family and other relationships. They tend to be a bit on the gothic side, but are generally well-crafted. There are echos of themes and settings from some of her earliest novels, as if she revisited them to consdier them from different vantage points.