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.
"In modern fantasy (literary and governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions."
@bookstodon#amreading etc. Here is my Tentative reading list for 2024. I am for 12 novels a year, but life, writing, my family, it can all get in the way. For '23 I read 12 things, but they weren't all novels, so thats a half pass. The list:
Any sequels I'm up to (3 trilogies in this case), lotr i read recently but I loved it so much I'm thinking of doing it again. Dispossessed was on 23s list.
Have you read any of these, what's your take? Any suggestions or definite 'don't read that!'
@Jtmoriartywriter@bookstodon Super ambitious list, especially having Ulysses and LOTR on there at the same time. Ulysses 3 or 4 books in one. But #LeGuin’s Lathe of Heaven FTW!
I've organized all 78 of the videos I've produced so far on the works and thought of Ursula K Leguin into one playlist. The vast majority of them are on her Earthsea novels and stories, and cover all the series' main characters, ideas, and plot points!
50+ years on, Ursula #LeGuin's #ScienceFantasy stories continue to inspire. Many academics, in particular, credit her writing's acuteness on growing up in a household of anthropologists. It's often said her work also grapples with #anthropology's problematic (post)colonial past & present.
This #podcast is more specific about her family's professional implication in California colonial anthropology, and how this might have shaped her work.
I just finished Ursula LeGuin’s Lathe of Heaven - it’s just fantastic. And her writing … “the endless warm drizzle of spring - the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it” ❤️ 1971. We have known for a long time what we’re doing. #amreading#bookstodon#LeGuin