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Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,381
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,247
Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan - she an isolated young priestess, he a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice. A lifetime ago they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again to help another - the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delivers on Promise of Tenar and the Tombs
- By JA on 08-30-17
- Tehanu
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book Four
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Beautifully Human
Reviewed: 07-19-24
As I know is the case for many people, I could never express big enough how much Le Guin means to me. In this particular book, what stands out is that her characters show you so gently that to be healthy isn't to not struggle, but to struggle and strive to understand and love through it all.
Her characters don't have squeaky clean healthy love for each other, which would be neither healthy nor so beautifully human as the mess of the struggle to understand each other *because* we love. Or the deep yearning to understand what is broken in humanity.
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters
- Stories
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Amy Landon, Grover Gardner, Will Watt
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Story4 out of 5 stars 134
The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects 17 powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Follow the development of U K Leguin through well chosen short stories.
- By Joseph Tracy on 04-22-22
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters
- Stories
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Amy Landon, Grover Gardner, Will Watt
Beyond Brilliant
Reviewed: 06-04-24
Le Guin has this amazing way of taking things that are things people feeeeel, like really feel, and putting them into words, into a scene, making them tangible, if only for a moment while you are reading. Whether it's feeling like the trees are empathizing with you or guilt over the state of the world. For just one moment while you are reading a Le Guin short story, she makes sense of the senseless.
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