Dear readers and fans of K. Le Guin: do you know if there's a collection for the "Hainish Cycle", somewhat similar to what "The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition" is for Earthsea? Cheers!
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Fried eggs on Trader Joe's naan while watching Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea. This is surprisingly comforting!
« The Farthest Shore », 1973
by David Smee (British artist, born 1937)
Cover illustration for Ursula LeGuin's "Earthsea Trilogy #3", Puffin Books, 1973
Tales from Earthsea (2001) by Ursula Le Guin
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Michał SapkaTales from Earthsea (2001) by Ursula Le GuinMy HUGE version of Earthesea puts this short stories collection as the last part, but everywhere else I've seen it put before the The Other
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Book 14 of 2025
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin (graphic novel adapted by Fred Fordham)
4.75 stars
Earthsea is such a masterpiece that means so much to me, so I was skeptical at first. But it was an immediate green flag that Le Guin's son initially reached out to Fordham because he loved his work and wanted to see his mother's works adapted as a graphic novel.
This is so gorgeous, absolutely stunning illustrations with soft, cinematic lighting and sparse text. It's basically long sequences of evocative, painterly images with an occasional direct quotation lifted from the original book. I loved it so much more than I thought I would.
It genuinely made me view and love this story in a new way. I really hope Fordham keeps adapting the rest of the Earthsea books, because I want to keep returning to his version of Le Guin's world.
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Finished Ursula K. Le Guin's fourth book in the #Earthsea series, "Tehanu".
It felt more philosophical and at the same time down-to-earth human than any of the other Earthsea books before it, reminding me more of the Hanish cycle, her sci-books, which are very obviously philosophical.
Can't wait to get a hold of this one. #earthsea
https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-does-ursula-k-le-guins-a-wizard-of-earthsea-work-as-a-comic/
The Beat · Graphic Novel Review: Does Ursula K. Le Guin's A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA work as a comic?Ursula K. Le Guin's classic fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea, has gotten a comics adaptation via Fred Fordham.
10 best fantasy books for beginners
Here are the 10 best fantasy books for beginners, from epic fantasy and romantic fantasy to cozy fantasy, and everything in between.
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The Mary Sue · 10 best fantasy books for beginnersHere are the 10 best fantasy books for beginners, from epic fantasy and romantic fantasy to cozy fantasy, and everything in between.
Love the symbolism in the #graphicnovel adaption of A Wizard of #Earthsea
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Introduction post with lots of hashtags
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The fouth Earthsea book, “Tehanu“, I loved, at least until just before the end. I really liked the small scale narration. [Spoilers follow]
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“The Farthest Shore” is also very dark, but by now Ged is archmage and his competence believable, and despite that his struggle is extreme. And it is great to see Lebannen internally struggling around his love and loyalty to the archmage, narrated so well to the reader. #Earthsea
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“The Tombs of Atuan” I liked least of the four #Earthsea books I just read. It is very dark and oppressive, and then in marches Ged as a beacon of competence and promises to fix the world. Not mine.
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In “The Wizard of #Earthsea”, Ged is so far beyond the mean of his world, it's ridiculous.It also makes him quite full of himself, and seeing the change in his character is to me the great thing about the book.
I have just finished reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea (the first four novels, bundled into one Penguin book). We had watched the Ghibli film some time ago, and reading the book, it stood out how the film mashes together the last two books, leaving out much of the darkness (Therru's and the Dark Land's, in particular), a lot of the diversity of cast (women voices, skin colors, cultures), and, weirdest to me, also the vast seas that give their name to #Earthsea.
Aaaaand that's The Other Wind finished!
Great book, and a fitting capstone on the series. Well, the books at least. I've still got the short stories to read, two from before the first book came out and two from 2014 and 2018 respectively, right at the end of LeGuin's life.
Not gonna count those as books for the sake of my goal this year, but I do want to read them so I'll have experienced the entirety of the series. It feels right, and numbers be damned.
About 2/3 of the way through The Other Wind and I can see the shape of the plot now. At least to the point where I see what the major element everything revolves around is, and where at least a couple of characters are headed.
It's amazing to think back at how central that element has been to the entire series, and yet how hidden it was. Le Guin really pulled together a lot of strings to put this one together.
Finished reading Tales From Earthsea today, that's five books down!
Just The Other Wind left to read, and the four short stories that weren't collected elsewhere. I must say that so far the later books have been consistently excellent, and I've been quite enjoying my time in LeGuin's world.
It's time to reread The Earthsea Cycle I think.
Every time I read this book from now until the end of time I will remember one of the coolest things that happened to me. I don't remember how to conversation started, but I replied to a thread on twitter about books. I said I was reading Tehanu for the first time. And the actor who plays Paul Stamets (Star Trek) replied to me! We had a convo about how great the series was.
Huge fangirl moment.