{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sleepbound (free)","title":"The Farthest Shore – Part 7","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2242,"description":"The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 7 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\nSpears greet them at Obehol's shore — and before Ged and Arren can turn back, the wound is dealt and Sopli, lost to the pull of an immortal dream, slips beneath the waves. Two survivors, adrift on an empty sea, are gathered at last by the quiet people of the great raft-town, who ask nothing and offer shelter.\n\nIt is there, in the slow time of healing, that Arren speaks aloud the shame he has carried — the doubt, the betrayal, the creeping despair that had nearly unmade him. And Ged, for the first time, calls him Lebannen, and speaks of death and selfhood and the dance above the abyss. A chapter of reckoning and restoration — one of the most quietly luminous nights in all of Earthsea.\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 luminous, philosophical fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the ends of the world to find why magic is fading from the land. Its deep stillness, ocean rhythms, and meditations on mortality and meaning make it one of the most naturally suited...","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}