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coral

coral@bookwyrm.world

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Your bird friend Coral, a library web developer and systems administrator, working remotely. Runs (despite their best efforts) on caffeine and rage.

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reviewed Alanna by Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, #1)

Tamora Pierce: Alanna (Paperback, 2005, Simon Pulse)

Alanna: The First Adventure is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce. Originally published in 1983, …

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I am really enjoying this whole series (I'm on book 4). I only wish I'd read it as a young teen, when it could have helped me get over some of my negative feelings about growing up female.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies (2005, Simon Pulse)

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only …

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I'm still reading this one, months after starting it and more months after getting it as part of a Humble Bundle. It's been slow going, but I'm not sure if it's the story, the writing, or me not being in the mood for a YA book. I don't know if I'll keep going with the series. Should I? I'm reading it on a Kindle; is it better as an audiobook?

reviewed The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 2)

Patrick Rothfuss: The Wise Man’s Fear (Hardcover, 2011, Daw Books)

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with …

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I was profoundly irritated by Rothfuss' treatment of women in book one. Enough so that I refused to pay for book two, though curiosity and some people's assurances did lead me to check it out from the library.

Book two is simultaneously a bit better and WAY worse. The badass fighter/teacher who is also a loving grandmother? Neat! The healer who talks about hard choices? Neat. But they don't really make up for pretty much every other woman being a sex object, in need of saving, or both.

Kvothe is still funny. The storytelling isn't nearly as tight and neat, but aside from a long, pointless, irritating dalliance in Fae, it does move along. I still wonder how we get from the end of this book to the beginning of the first, in only one more installment.

I am frustrated with myself for having any investment in this sexist Mary …