Earthsea: now with more incredibly unsubtle Freudian imagery!

So, I finished reading The Tombs of Atuan!

( Well, Tenar's a priestess; Ged's a kleptomaniac / 'cause the Archipelagans want Erreth-Akbe's ring back / Said, Kargad Lands are the place where it has gone / So he loaded up his boat and he went to Atuan / The tombs, that is! Nameless Ones, Tenar's home )

Anyways, your culture-clash-with-adventuring rec for today is The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley. It's like if Laurence of Arabia was a girl, had magical powers, and had to become an epic fantasy hero to fight demons. In other words, AWESOME.