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Tehanu
by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Was that the new thing, the folded knowledge, the light seed, that she felt in herself, waking beneath the small window that looked west?”
YESSS FINALLY THE FEMINISM SHE’S BEEN BUILDING KICKED IN!!!!
I looooved how she wrote Tenar’s rage and delved into the sexism in Earthsea. I love that women, normal, simple women, were the focus of this book. It makes it a really anti-fantasy arc book, but I think that’s a good thing.
I also love that Ged and Tenar are so old in this story. It’s really rare that I see aging depicted as beautiful and a time of growth and change instead of stagnation and decay (see quote above). And for them to find each other in such a simple, gentle way was really touching. I love that Ursula writes romance as mundane and unvarnished, even as she simultaneously worships the mundane. OH it’s beautiful.
This also was such a wonderful way for Ged’s story to turn; he is not infallible, and really struggles to find himself again in this book. For Tenar to have to help him find himself the way he helped her find herself after Atuan—beautiful, Ursula, beautiful.
And the difference between wizard and witch powers SLAYED LIKE GIRL YOU TELL EM WTF
"Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble."
MALE FRAGILITY AND UNFOUNDED CONFIDENCE V.S. FEMALE RAGE AND RESILIENCE HELLOOOO
Another slay from Ursula thank you girl I love you
YESSS FINALLY THE FEMINISM SHE’S BEEN BUILDING KICKED IN!!!!
I looooved how she wrote Tenar’s rage and delved into the sexism in Earthsea. I love that women, normal, simple women, were the focus of this book. It makes it a really anti-fantasy arc book, but I think that’s a good thing.
I also love that Ged and Tenar are so old in this story. It’s really rare that I see aging depicted as beautiful and a time of growth and change instead of stagnation and decay (see quote above). And for them to find each other in such a simple, gentle way was really touching. I love that Ursula writes romance as mundane and unvarnished, even as she simultaneously worships the mundane. OH it’s beautiful.
This also was such a wonderful way for Ged’s story to turn; he is not infallible, and really struggles to find himself again in this book. For Tenar to have to help him find himself the way he helped her find herself after Atuan—beautiful, Ursula, beautiful.
And the difference between wizard and witch powers SLAYED LIKE GIRL YOU TELL EM WTF
"Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs," Moss said. "But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and tall and grand, but it'll blow right down in a storm. Nothing kills a blackberry bramble."
MALE FRAGILITY AND UNFOUNDED CONFIDENCE V.S. FEMALE RAGE AND RESILIENCE HELLOOOO
Another slay from Ursula thank you girl I love you