You could use the basic Earthsea premise to write some kind of wizard/pirate tale.

[nedlum]

I'm not entirely sure why I write these. It's a good way to keep track of what a book is about and what my reaction is, but I've got a little diary that I've been keeping for that purpose, whenever I can find it. It can also keep track of when I read something, but I have both that diary and my Books page-I don't usually go for Facebook

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[rushthatspeaks]

Le Guin is a practicing Taoist, actually; she's done a translation of the Tao Te Ching that I haven't been able to find yet.

I do recommend Tehanu, which is a very love-it-or-hate-it sort of book, and which turns her already quite inside out fantasy structure inside out again and then jumps up and down on it. The other two Earthsea books, Tales and The Other Wind, came much later and read as afterthoughts to me, and not very good ones either.

[nedlum]

Hmm. I will keep that in mind.

At the moment, though, I've got somewhere between two and three thousand pages of book to read in the two weeks before I head back to DC, where no book from the Westerly Public Library system can follow.