u/old_moth_dreams

I've finished a few things since the last reading thread.

Ursula Le Guin - Tehanu Continuing the Earthsea series years after The Farthest Shore. I much enjoyed that the protagonist was an older woman, stepping away from standard fantasy tropes a bit. As usual, Le Guin's prose was good and the plot well-paced.

Patricia A. McKillip - The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind Great trilogy, well paced with good world building and a sort of sensible and well-described magic system. I also very much appreciate that McKillip was able to weave a wonderful and rich tale without having to bloat out into a multi-volume, thousands-of-pages epic.

John Gardner - The Wreckage of Agathon There's a glib description of this on Goodreads--

"You know that subgenre of lit novels about suburban college professors swapping wives and drinking themselves to death? This book is that set in BCE Sparta during a slave revolt."

Very true, but, the prose is vivid and imaginative, the character development is rich and interesting, and the world building/historical extrapolation is quite engaging.