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To me Voices, volume 2 of Annals of the Western Shore, can be read entirely on its own and is a stand-alone masterpiece. To me, anyway, it has everything:

It's about growing up, family, a sacred house and household, a community of real and beloved people; about freedom, invasion, occupation, oppression, and more after (no spoilers); it's about books, libraries, reading, oral storytelling, tales, legends, heroes, history and myth; it's about mentors, teachers, liberators.

It's about a community of real people, a beloved community of fallible people and still they're beloved; it's about oppressors, about compromise and shades of gray, about overcoming polarization and demonization and the fact that the bad doesn't have to mean all-bad, and about pragmatism and the spirit of compromise and practical solutions that our world today seems so much badly to need; it's about anti-intellectualism and oppressive religious fundamentalism, but also that not all religion is fundamentalist ; it's about the sacred, and the depth of the sacred running through communities, homes, families, youth, and incredible mentors and teachers, books and libraries, about lineage and the sacred past leading into the sacred future, but without absolutism and without monopolies on truth; it tells a riveting dramatic story and at the same time it teaches as much wisdom as is within the power of a novel to be able to.

Obviously I'm in love with this book. It celebrates home, community, pragmatism, compromise, family, books, learning, both growing up and teaching the young, both spoken and written word, stories and storytelling, freedom, forgiveness, messy but satisfactory human compromise, and the practical but genuine greatness of our imperfect lives-- or at least it inspires me this way, and about this way to talk about it.

It's a storytelling and political and family and community drama of history and lineage and love and learning and teaching and love and tradition and human forgiveness and compromise; it's a storytelling and spiritual masterpiece.


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Voices Annals of the Western Shore Ursula K Le Guin Books Reviews

A delightful fairy tale, good YA, and with Le Guin's usual introspective girl hero. A dramatic plot resolved with excitement but without violence, pain without suffering, and intrigue without meanness.
Fabulous storytelling by a true author. Ursula Le Guin is not "just" a science fiction/fantasy writer her word imagery and descriptive prose puts he in a class with the great authors of this or any genre or time period. Read and enjoy.
what can I say I Have yet to read one of Ursala's books, and not be happy with my choice. they are just wonderful.
Interesting turn to the series, and really brings to light the importance of books and reading in a civilized culture.
This is the second book in the series. I loved the characters, the setting and the world-building. The best thing about this series is the magic system. It is unique and intriguing.
Interesting premise, engaging events, and convincing, compelling characters. Very loosely connected to the previous and subsequent books in the series. LeGuin has never written a bomb, though she has penned some deep classics. This is an easy read with some real thinking thrown in.
For an example of her best work, try "The Lathe of Heaven" or "Always Coming Home". She can always make you think, and care. It's a rare gift.
Not a word that is unnecessary, not a line that doesn’t ring true. Ms. Le Guin’s writing is so smooth you forget you are reading. Voices is the second book in the series, Annals of the Western Shore, which I think (but am not sure) is adjacent to her mythological world of EarthSea. The entire series is wonderful, as is everything she has written about, and in, and around EarthSea. It’s fantasy the way I think fantasy ought to be, it’s about people working their way through their world, rather than just huge dragons and absurd magic. And there’s a little commentary on our present day real world thrown in, which never hurts.
To me Voices, volume 2 of Annals of the Western Shore, can be read entirely on its own and is a stand-alone masterpiece. To me, anyway, it has everything

It's about growing up, family, a sacred house and household, a community of real and beloved people; about freedom, invasion, occupation, oppression, and more after (no spoilers); it's about books, libraries, reading, oral storytelling, tales, legends, heroes, history and myth; it's about mentors, teachers, liberators.

It's about a community of real people, a beloved community of fallible people and still they're beloved; it's about oppressors, about compromise and shades of gray, about overcoming polarization and demonization and the fact that the bad doesn't have to mean all-bad, and about pragmatism and the spirit of compromise and practical solutions that our world today seems so much badly to need; it's about anti-intellectualism and oppressive religious fundamentalism, but also that not all religion is fundamentalist ; it's about the sacred, and the depth of the sacred running through communities, homes, families, youth, and incredible mentors and teachers, books and libraries, about lineage and the sacred past leading into the sacred future, but without absolutism and without monopolies on truth; it tells a riveting dramatic story and at the same time it teaches as much wisdom as is within the power of a novel to be able to.

Obviously I'm in love with this book. It celebrates home, community, pragmatism, compromise, family, books, learning, both growing up and teaching the young, both spoken and written word, stories and storytelling, freedom, forgiveness, messy but satisfactory human compromise, and the practical but genuine greatness of our imperfect lives-- or at least it inspires me this way, and about this way to talk about it.

It's a storytelling and political and family and community drama of history and lineage and love and learning and teaching and love and tradition and human forgiveness and compromise; it's a storytelling and spiritual masterpiece.