Gifts: (The Annals of The Western Shore, book #1) by Ursula Le Guin What if you have the power to kill with your mind? Kill trees, kill animals, kill people? But what others also had powers, powers to curse someone you love with a slow death, powers to call or send away animals, or to make or unma...
[Originally posted on tumblr on 23. August 2012] I started reading “Gifts” by Ursula K. Le Guin and asldfkajdf why is everything she writes so addictive?Orrec is so awwwwww.Poor guy.D:I hope he ends up in a better situation. Or something like that. (Also, what’s up with Emmon? If he actually had a c...
Ursula LeGuin's Annals of the Western Shore sries was one of the series recommended to me after my public adulation of Kristin Cashore's Graceling books. I picked up the first two books at an adorable indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo while at a reading for another author, and dove into Gifts almo...
"With eye and hand and breath and will" is not just the way of the gift of unmaking but also the gift of making, as in storytelling. I am amazed by Ursula Le Guin's gifts. Many authors come up with one really great concept for a fictional world, and a few do it more than once, but Le Guin keeps do...
This book just didn't work for me it was... too young I hate to say. The author I felt just dumbed it down too much. They need to add more detail and get me more attached to characters.
Opening: "He was lost when he came to us, and I fear the silver spoons he stole from us didn't save him when he ran away and went up into the high domains."This is a lovely book, full of evocative images and tantalizing ideas. I often feel like LeGuin writes about her characters at a remove, not as ...
This book is beautiful and painful to read. I see why certain of my friends like it, but I'm just not sure if it's to my taste. Too much grief and anticipation of grief.
Gifts is written in the same vein as Kristin Cashore’s Graceling, trilogy, in terms of the concept of the gifts—inherited skills or abilities with fearsome power. But that’s also where the similarity ends. Le Guin’s novel is much more sophisticated in terms of the themes conveyed. It’s very much a n...
Ursula Le Guin writes well, but the plot in this novel is just about non-existing. She spends 90% of the book setting the scene, so the actual story seems to be told in very few pages. Had it been a stand-alone book I wouldn't have understood the point of it at all, but as far as I can make out, it'...
Disappointingly slow and bland. Much repeating of the same information. Weird shift in the story narration - starts with visitor, goes back several years, then back further, then to visitor again, then continues on. Place names and people/clan names confusing - has a detailed map in front of the boo...
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