a wonderful ending to a series that (to me) has its ups and downs - the perfect culmination of what the series becomes in the later books. I feel like the themes in this book settled in where previously I had bounced off from them; like all the best capstones of a series, it paints the rest of the two trilogies in a new light, especially in tandem with Tales from Earthsea.
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nogoodnik reviewed The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
nogoodnik wants to read Subcontractors of Guilt by Esra Özyürek
as recommended to me by the Jewish Currents article 'Bad Memory' jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2
nogoodnik rated Tales from Earthsea: 4 stars
nogoodnik finished reading Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
nogoodnik wants to read Short War by Lily Meyer
nogoodnik wants to read The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives …
nogoodnik started reading Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
nogoodnik reviewed Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #4)
the book that's bringing me around on Earthsea
4 stars
I've been reading through Earthsea half out of duty to finish everything by my favorite author; I hated A Wizard of Earthsea, loved Tombs of Atuan, and then found The Farthest Shore kinda tedious. But this book - written nearly 2 decades after the original trilogy - brought everything I love about Le Guin's work into the Earthsea series in a way that hadn't hooked me before. The prose, both deep and clear, and the rich depictions of life on Gont and musings on culture and gender finally brought what I'd wanted to see in Earthsea to the surface.
nogoodnik finished reading Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #4)
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #4)
Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. …
nogoodnik reviewed Rayuela. by Julio Cortázar
Un clásico - y todavía se ve porque
4 stars
lo leí en desorden, según la recomendación de Cortázar (comenzando con capitulo 78, entonces capitulo 1, etc.). me encantó todo lo juego literario e lingüístico, y todas las conexiones entre un capitulo y otro - quizás lo mas divertido fue descifrar porque Cortázar te manda en ese camino en particular. hace cosas maravillosas e inigualables con el estilo y la estructura del lenguaje. al mismo tiempo, ya que el español no es mi idioma nativo, a veces se me fue el argumento de los capitulos 1-56, especialmente mientras me enfoqué más en como juega con lenguaje que en lo que de verdad pasaba. me valdrá releerlo de manera "tradicional" y traducido - me encantó de verdad pero reconocer la hermosura de la prosa es un poco dificil si de vez en cuando tienes que parar y buscar una palabra en un diccionario.
nogoodnik wants to read Basura by Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny
Basura by Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny
Traces the intersecting lives of three different women: Alicia, abandoned as a child in a garbage dump; Griselda, a professional …
nogoodnik wants to read Bellies by Nicola Dinan
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.
It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While …
nogoodnik wants to read Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of …
nogoodnik wants to read Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
An edgy, queer cyberpunk detective mystery by an exciting new trans voice from New Zealand.
This punk ain’t feelin’ lucky. …