This weekend I hung a hammock between two perfectly placed trees in my side yard. This hammock was a gift from my cast & crew of Waiting for Godot (thank you all!), and I put it to good use by reading all of Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness. It was the first time in a long while that I devoted the time to reading a book from cover to cover in practically one sitting, and this book was worth the time. Le Guin knows how to write a compelling story.