Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin

I'm back to reading books of my choice - and my latest find was Ursula Le Guin's collection of short stories called Changing Planes. First I have to say that I'm not a huge fan of short stories - I often find them difficult to get in to and then they finish anyway. These short stories - totally different. They hook you in on the first page, and you can't stop until you've finished them.

The book starts by intorducing Sita Dulip's method of changing planes - the method requires you to be stuck on an airport ("between planes"), and once you get to another plane you can spend weeks there without much time passing on your own plane. So each short story tells a story about a different plane - some are funny, some are shocking and all extremely well written and facinating. My favourites were "Porridge on Islac" - eating corn with a woman who is corn, "Seasons of the Ansarac" - beautiful migration in a totally different world where I'd very much like to visit myself, "Great Joy" - so scary but true, "The Fliers of Gy" - powerful and sad, and most of all "The Island of the Immortals" - shocking and sad.

This book is a must read. Especially for my friends like Janne and Jaakko who spend a lot of time in planes and between them. Just read it, ok?