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Earth, Sea and the Winds

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So yeah. Once in a while, comes a story that just blows your mind into tiny bits. Where you turn the final page and just sit, blankly staring into the void. Where the conclusion of the plot you've been following for the past few days or weeks just crashes onto you and makes it hard to gather your thoughts properly. Where you both feel content with how the story ended and at the same time suffer from a case of that subtle, nagging sadness of realization that you just had a one-in-a-lifetime experience. Which has just ended. That's how I feel after turning the last page of The Other Wind . I still have the Earthsea short stories collection to go through, but I feel like I can try to sum up and share my thoughts on the journey across the islands of... well, the Earthsea itself. To start from the beginning - Earthsea  is a series of novels (and short stories) by a late American author Ursula le Guin. Taking place on a vast archipelago permeated with magic and mystery