by Ursula K. Le Guin
Powers: The Annals of The Western Shore #3 by Ursula LeGuin Gav was raised as a slave and cannot imagine a world without slavery. It seems the only way the world works, indeed almost reasonable to him. Gav and his sister Sallo are not native to their city state, Etra, but were captured as very small...
[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...
In my previous reviews for the preceding two books in this trilogy, I commented that they could read as standalone novels. This last installment to the trilogy is no exception, and in fact this story strays the most. Yet at the book’s end, the overall story arc does come full circle and in a way tha...
Gavir is a young house slave in a city state not unlike Greece. As children, he and his sister live sheltered lives, with privileges similar to the children of their master's family. Only a horrifying tragedy to a slave girl drives him away from his masters, and his unthinking loyalty. He runs aw...
Recently, after Richard finished reading a novel, I asked him if he would recommend I read it. He replied that he thought I'd be too irritated by the central theology, and probably wouldn't enjoy it. The story was fine and all, solid, but I would freak out. Which all lead me to my new-found theory o...
A third book in the Annals of the Western Shore and a third first person narrator in a third location. Gavir was taken as a slave as a baby, too young to remember his native Marshes. He is brought up and educated in a city - one of the City States that are forever warring with each other. Initially ...
The third book in The Annals of the Western Shore is amazingly good. Le Guin is on top of her game, exploring slavery and its reverberations. It's excellent in every way. And it includes this transcendent piece, which caused me to catch my breath and blink away tears:"To look back on that summer and...
The third in the Annals of the Western Shore series following Gifts and Voices. These are ostensibly young adult novels, though Le Guin's work seems to get this label whenever the protagonist is a child or adolescent, regardless of the themes or sophistication of the narrative. I recently had the op...
This one was the longest and best of the three. I really loved it and didn't want it to be over. It follows the story of a slave boy in an important house in a large city. He was stolen from the Marsh People as a baby, and has little or no memory of his home. UKL understands slavery, what it doe...
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