Oh geez, what a bummer about the Patrick Ness book. I read another book of his and enjoyed it. I wonder what happened.

I've often thought about reading Ursula LeGuin books, but I think most of her books fall into the type of sci fi that I don't enjoy (sword and sorcery). This sounds like a nice way to read some of her work.

I would say I'd rather read about people hiking for 28 days than actually hiking for 28 days ;) Did I tell you my coworker's daughter was hiking the same trail that Cheryl Strayed did in Wild? I think she finished up in Sept. She did say at some point that her daughter seemed to think she was going to have some big revelations about herself while she did it, and she wasn't experiencing any of that. I was thinking about that too, I'd probably be so focused on 'omg, everything hurts, i'm tired, i'm hungry, why the fuck did i think this was a good idea??' that I probably wouldn't manage anything else. ;)

Radical hope sounds like a good thing to be reading right now.

I wonder what happened with Boy Erased? Maybe changed editors partway through? Maybe it wasn't long enough and they asked him to add more?

Thanks for sharing as always :D