Feb. 28th, 2007

liv: Bookshelf labelled: Caution. Hungry bookworm (bookies)
Author: Ursula Le Guin

Details: (c) Inter-Vivos trust for the Le Guin children 1973; Pub Penguin 1993 (compendium edition); ISBN 0-14-015427-2

Verdict: The farthest shore is almost the perfect YA fantasy novel.

Reasons for reading it: I chanced on a nice convenient single volume edition of the Earthsea trilogy plus Tehanu and I've been working through it at a leisurely pace

How it came into my hands: The lovely Galloway & Porter discount bookshop in Cambridge, a couple of years ago now.

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Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.

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