{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sleepbound (free)","title":"The Farthest Shore – Part 10","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1610,"description":"The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 10 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep\n\nTonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.\n→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com\n→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound\nOur other two shows, if tonight's isn't quite what you were after:\n→ Sleepbound Nights — original cosy bedtime stories for grown-ups: Apple Podcasts\n→ Sleepbound Soundscapes — ambient sleep music, no narration: Apple Podcasts\n\nThey have reached the edge of the world. Selidor — westernmost of all islands, empty and wind-scoured and achingly beautiful — is where it must end. Cob's sending appears on the dune-crest, imperious, calling itself Lord, and Ged names it for what it is: mere shadow, mere trick. But the shadow has a body waiting beyond the dunes, and Orm Embar, the great golden dragon, knows the way.\n\nTonight's reading carries us to a beach built from the bones of dragons, where power and sacrifice collide in one shattering moment — a chapter of terrible beauty, of a creature choosing its own ending so that something greater might survive. Still your breathing and settle in.\n\nAll Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night.\n\n☾ Listen ad-free & get early access:\n→ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound\n→ Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/\n\n☾ More from Sleepbound:\n→ Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights\n→ Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes\n\n☾ About this audiobook\nThe Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea cycle — a profound, quietly devastating fantasy about mortality, loss of magic, and what it costs to hold the world together. Its measured prose and deep stillness make it one of the most naturally suited novels imaginable for late-night listening, each chapter unfolding like a long, lucid dream.\n\nSleepbound...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i3KcOLdrBAcMELpAUwt0BHGPtrxJNbUG61cRQR16fu8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Q3/YTk3NTRlNTBmZmUz/NDkzMmQ3ZjljYmM1/ODEzNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}