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Top rated complain that this is too obviously political or too derivative (of The Awakening ??) It's not that. The problem with When Women Were Dragons is that it's just not very well edited. Unlike crowd-pleasing genres like romantasy, books that de
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"some of the top rated low reviews complain that this is too obviously political or too derivative (of The Awakening ??) It's not that. The problem with When Women Were Dragons is that it's just not very well edited. Unlike crowd-pleasing genres like romantacy, books that deal with socially uncomfortable topics like misogyny can't afford to be poorly edited. The story has - in many ways - much to offer:" — Jun 28, 2026 10:47AM
"some of the top rated low reviews complain that this is too obviously political or too derivative (of The Awakening ??) It's not that. The problem with When Women Were Dragons is that it's just not very well edited. Unlike crowd-pleasing genres like romantacy, books that deal with socially uncomfortable topics like misogyny can't afford to be poorly edited. The story has - in many ways - much to offer:" — Jun 28, 2026 10:47AM
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"Reading according to the rec from a friend. As a kind of good-faith favor, as it were." — May 27, 2026 09:19AM
"Reading according to the rec from a friend. As a kind of good-faith favor, as it were." — May 27, 2026 09:19AM
This guard is shorter and does not read. He wishes to be no one but himself, he lacks the imagination to conjure alter egos, even the imagination to empathize with the man behind the bars, the only other soul in the room beyond the mice.
Are people really like this, or is it just something literary types like to presume about those who don't read?
“Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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