THE OTHER WIND by Ursula K. Le Guin is the sixth book in the Earthsea Cycle series and I’m going to do something slightly different with this post. It will be a in Q&A style.

TEHANU by Ursula K. Le Guin is the fourth book in the Earthsea Cycle series.

The first book, A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, is about Ged. The second book, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN, is about Tenar and the third one, THE FARTHEST SHORE, introduces us to prince Arren who embarks on a journey with Ged to restore good to the evil that has befallen Earthsea.

In TEHANU, however, there is no working of magic. The story reunites Ged and Tenar. And a young girl named Therru. The widow Tenar rescues a badly burned girl […]

The third book in the Earthsea Cycle series, THE FARTHEST SHORE by Ursula K. Le Guin, is a thought-provoking book that deals with the issue of death and eternal life. I loved it.

In this one, there is another wizard with great power—perhaps even one that matches Ged’s—who is working a spell. A spell that will throw the world into chaos and upsets its balance by denying and avoiding death. To set things right again, Ged and prince Arren embarks on a journey of possibly no return. They travel by sea into the West, the farthest shore. In their adventure, they encounter dragons and the children of the open sea [...]

TOMBS OF ATUAN is my second Ursula K. Le Guin book. Again, I’ve enjoyed it immensely. Like the first book, this is a also short book at 192 pages but a good read nonetheless. The synopsis above gives a good overview of the book.

Here, the magical journey continues where a young girl named Tenar is identified and chosen as the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan.

A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA is my first Ursula K. Le Guin book and I enjoyed it immensely. The synopsis above gives a good overview of the book. It’s also a fairly short novel with 197 pages only.

Ged (his true name) is destined to be an Archmage but he does not yet know that. As a child, he is called Duny. He is wild and quick, loud and proud, and full of temper. One day by accident he repeats aloud the rhyme that he heard his aunt uses to call a goat that has strayed, and the other goats come to him. That is how he is ‘discovered’ and is sent to learn from a mage named Ogion.