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I really liked this book quite a lot. I appreciate how it looked at the creation and publication of the Oxford English Dictionary in its historical and social context, pointing directly to how the biases of the people who were largely responsible for creating it, academic, white Englishmen, directly influenced what was included and what was left out. I also really liked how the characters were drawn, and the fact that the author could have created a "happily ever after" story for the fictional p
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The word that keeps popping into my head to describe this book is "melodramatic." I'm not sure who the intended reader is, but it sure wasn't me.
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Okay, a bit to preachy on the subject of feminism, which is really a shame as the story is set during the suffragette movement in England. It couldn't have been handled better.
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4.5 stars, rounded up
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