Book completed

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The Magic of Recluce, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Recluce #1. This is the first book in Modesitt's longest series, and I've read it more than once, but the last time was some time back. Lerris is an easily bored teenager on the island of Recluce, which is governed by people with a strong sense of order, and because he's bored he's sent off on a quest to the neighboring continent, to decide whether he actually wants to fit in or not. It's quite a good story - I was amused that the main things I remembered were when he works briefly with sheep with a wizard named Justen, and later as a journeyman woodworker in the shop of an ailing and not terribly competent master woodworker. I totally forgot both that he's able to defeat a white wizard and rescue a young woman he'd met earlier. I enjoyed the reread.