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geras, 14 days ago to books

I finished the second book in the saga titled "The Tombs of Atuan". It's great.

It follows the story of Tenar, a girl taken to an old temple in the desert to be the priestess devoted to the "Nameless Ones", ancient gods long forgotten.

She was very lonely there; all her life changed when she met Ged, the first book's protagonist, who was in the underground labyrinth under the temple looking for an ancient relic. This encounter completely changes Tenar's life.

The main topics of the book are freedom, gender, and the power relations emanating between those, reflecting the anarchist views of Ursula.

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #fantasy #comeLibrosClub #UrsulaKLeGuin #LeGuin #Earthsea #anarchy

(comment on https://comelibros.club/book/33995, p. 245)

geras, 24 days ago to fantasy

@bookstodon Finished the first book 'A wizard of Earthsea'. I like how the book is not about good vs evil. It's more about a personal search of oneself. #fantasy #UrsulaKLeGuin

(comment on https://comelibros.club/book/33995)

geras, 1 month ago to fantasy

"A wizard may have subtle ways of telling the truth, and may keep the truth to himself, but that if he says a thing the thing is as he says."

— https://comelibros.club/book/33995

#fantasy #wizard #earthsea #books #quotes @bookstodon

geras, 3 months ago to palestine

"All universities in the [West Bank] were built solely with private funding and donations from foreign states [..]. apart from the Islamic University in Hebron, originally supported by Israel as part of its encouragement of Islamic fundamentalism to undermine the secular PLO, now a Hamas center."

— https://comelibros.club/book/66000

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