"Shined"? "Shined"?! "Shone" surely! (British biases showing - but if even normal use of 'shined' can annoy me I dread to think what this book would have done to me).
And it annoys me that female writers get hit both ways, both reviewers in the way you've noted here and authors by stuff like the campaign to give Laurie Penny's latest book bad reviews on Amazon just because she's a feminist author who dares to express her opinions. But then much of the behaviour of my gender on the net (gamer-gate, sigh, men's rights, even heavier sigh) tends to drive me towards beating my head bloody against the nearest solid object.
No suggestions for somewhere to review and discuss books, DW is meeting my needs there at the moment. As for recommendations, I'll echo the recommendations on the Leckie, though at the minute I'm engaged in a reread of Terry Pratchett's City Watch books, wonderfully wise about accepting everybody for who they are.
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And it annoys me that female writers get hit both ways, both reviewers in the way you've noted here and authors by stuff like the campaign to give Laurie Penny's latest book bad reviews on Amazon just because she's a feminist author who dares to express her opinions. But then much of the behaviour of my gender on the net (gamer-gate, sigh, men's rights, even heavier sigh) tends to drive me towards beating my head bloody against the nearest solid object.
No suggestions for somewhere to review and discuss books, DW is meeting my needs there at the moment. As for recommendations, I'll echo the recommendations on the Leckie, though at the minute I'm engaged in a reread of Terry Pratchett's City Watch books, wonderfully wise about accepting everybody for who they are.