I haven't read Proulx yet, but after looking it up, Close Range definitely goes onto my to-read list. It's not really reflected in my reading from the last years, but I actually often prefer short stories or novellas over novels. Something changes when the writing has to be shorter, to the point. Not that I dislike novels, but there is a kind of clarity which I more often encounter in shorter works and which never fails to enhance me.
You would win this bet :) LeGuin is actually one of my favourite authors. Also one of the authors I got to know as a kid, though the books I read then were mostly not her children/ya-books, but never stopped loving, because there is so much to them. Levels and levels of meaning.
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I haven't read Proulx yet, but after looking it up, Close Range definitely goes onto my to-read list. It's not really reflected in my reading from the last years, but I actually often prefer short stories or novellas over novels. Something changes when the writing has to be shorter, to the point. Not that I dislike novels, but there is a kind of clarity which I more often encounter in shorter works and which never fails to enhance me.
You would win this bet :) LeGuin is actually one of my favourite authors. Also one of the authors I got to know as a kid, though the books I read then were mostly not her children/ya-books, but never stopped loving, because there is so much to them. Levels and levels of meaning.