I think I might do my best reading when I'm sick. I get superstitious when I'm ill. I surround myself with the talismans of warding illness: that one hideous, frayed wool sweater, tea with lemon, soup from a can. One of my salves is re-reading books that I love. It's a brief book, short, the middle ...
I am in awe of her writing, which draws you in quickly and holds you. Her style seems sparse yet I read this slowly, enjoying every paragraph. How she delivers a believable fantasy world in so few steps is just amazing. The magic is understated and the characters so fascinating, I wish I had come a...
I am in awe of her writing, which draws you in quickly and holds you. Her style seems sparse yet I read this slowly, enjoying every paragraph. How she delivers a believable fantasy world in so few steps is just amazing. The magic is understated and the characters so fascinating, I wish I had come a...
I've read the first three Earthsea books a heap of times, starting when I was at my academic peak (i.e. in primary school). Through-out my childhood readings I preferred the two that sandwiched this one. Looking back it is easy for me to see why: it wasn't about Ged and it didn't have enough sailing...
These books are great for extrapolating lessons which can apply to real life. The characters make real decisions and we follow them through their progression and learning.The one thing I miss is that while the reader sees the decisions that the characters make, we don't get to see the motivations be...
When the leader of a central religious order passes away her spirit is presumed to be reincarnated in a baby born in the same hour as her death. At five she is taken from her family to be raised in the religious capital as the leader. As a teenager she comes to realize that all may not be as she has...
[These notes were made in 1981:]. The middle book of a trilogy is very often disappointing - it often seems that the author has expended the first burst of novelty and fantastic imagination which inspired the first book, and is saving the deepest insights for the last book. I was pleasantly surpris...
I'm re-reading the whole of UKL's work now, starting with the Earthsea cycle. I've read this one many times, for it's my favorite. It begins with a brief chapter showing Tenar's mother's love and her father's grief that she will be taken by the Priestesses to become the new One Priestess who was r...
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