![]() ![]() ![]() She creates in people, in weakness, in the humanity of the oppressed AND the oppresser. She would rather wander in the woods than travel over the expected trails of fantasy. ![]() Her magic is found in the ghost notes of fantasy. She is looking at community, power, gender, and areas where the page folds, bends, or rips. She is focused as much on the community as on the mages, witches, and magicians. Like with Tehanu, Le Guin alters the form. Overall, I prefer her novels (or novellas) and this showed in this series because I gravitated towards the longer stories. I cried at the end of one, and one made me pause for half-a-day chewing on it. A couple of the stories really resonated with me (The Finder, On the High Marsh, Dragonfly). "That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. ![]()
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