A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin's monumental worldbuilding achievement recaptures the glories of childhood reading. [John Plotz] does exactly what a book of this kind should do: he whets our appetite for Le Guin's books, inspiring us to step through that invisible portal into the world of Earthsea and lose ourselves in the beautiful prose of Le Guin's fiction, and the world of the imagination such prose so effortlessly conjures.