This book is a fantasy novel by the inimitable Ursula K. Le Guin; about a goatherd called Ged who discovers he has the gift of interacting with reality magically, and goes off to train to be a wizard. He then spends the rest of the book on a range of island-hopping adventures, eventually chasing his own shadow to the very edge of the known world, and I won't tell you what happens there or why this post is so lacking in its usual ruminant quality because I loved this book and am going to read its sequels very soon. Worth mentioning also that Harry Potter can shove his wand up Ollivander's cavities because this is, by far - the best realized quasi-soft actually-hard Magic System I think I've ever encountered in fiction.
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