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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Start date: April 1, 2018

Finish date: April 30, 2018

Why we're reading this: April 2018 New School Selection
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Jan 07, 2012 Brad rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: to-my-kids, fantasy, out-loud, leguin, magic

Pa: Which book did you like better, Loš? The Hobbit or A Wizard of Earthsea?

Loš: Wizard of Earthsea!

Pa: How about you, Të, which did you like better? Hobbit or A Wizard of Earthsea?

Të: Wizard of Earthsea. But I really did love them both.

They're seven going on eight (for those of you who don't know or aren't sick of hearing it), and I read them Tolkien and Le Guin back to back. I read the former with deliberate performance and emotion. I read the latter in a monotous, almost plodding voice. I thi ...more

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Jun 12, 2013 Kathy rated it it was amazing

The Wizard Ged and his adventures in Earthsea....when young, he loosened a shadow into the world and it haunted him....till he finally realized that he had to hunt it.....he felt safer in the sea, not on land and so the book takes us on his quest to find the shadow (basically the whole book).

Nice descriptions as well as other adventures throughout the book.

We meet Vedeth and his sister Yarrow (Minnow).....this is the first in a series of Earthsea books.

Other adventures......saving an island from ...more

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