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XX is Currently Reading

XX is currently reading

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

bookshelves: currently-reading, 0-want-to-read-high-priority, 2-owned-audible, 3-published-2000s, brave-protagonist, historical-fiction, trauma

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Restoration (Rai-Kirah, #3)

by Carol Berg (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2-owned-audible, 3-published-2000s, brave-protagonist, fantasy, traumatized-protagonist

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Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)

by Michael Moorcock

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XX’s Quotes

“Even evil magicians get up in the night and look for cookies, sometimes.”
― Mercedes Lackey

tags: cookies, evil, humanity

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“Princesses did not display curiosity. They waited. And waited. Until someone else decided the outcome of their lives for them.”
― Kenley Davidson, The Faceless Mage

tags: fate, life, patriarchy, princesses

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“There is only one realm in which characters defy natural laws and remain the same—the realm of bad writing. And it is the fixed nature of the characters that make the writing bad.”
― Lajos Egri

tags: backstory, books, change, characters, on-writing, writing

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“But then, that was what was expected of a princess. To wait, to trust, to allow others to fight for her. Except, in this case, Leisa wasn’t sure whether anyone else in this entire palace actually cared enough to do so.”
― Kenley Davidson, The Faceless Mage

tags: fate, helplessness, isolation, princesses

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“Anyone can write male sexist fiction. Anyone can write feminist propaganda. I hope to avoid both, and to entertain you while I'm doing it.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sword and Sorceress

tags: egalitarianism, entertainment, fantasy, feminism, literature, sexism

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