The Left Hand of DarknessMy rating: 2 of 5 stars

I have to admit that I didn’t read this book all the way through. After the first 75 pages, I started skimming. It just never grabbed my interest but I felt I needed to work through it, even if I was scanning. The politics and argument that Le Guin makes are pretty good, especially her thoughts on gender and sex. When this was first published, I know it would have been groundbreaking. But today, while many of the bad norms regarding gender on our planet are still in place, they are at least not buried or hidden in darkened places. A flashlight is highlighting them, although we still need to stamp them out.