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Posted in Memes, Wondrous Words Wednesday on Jun 2nd, 2010
There are two memes I sometimes take part in on Wednesdays, diametrically opposite to each other, which amuses me. One is this one, Wondrous Words Wednesday run by Kathy of Bermuda Onion’s Weblog and the other is Wordless Wednesday which I did earlier today – featuring a sparrow feeding its baby in our garden and a baby [...]
Posted in Wondrous Words Wednesday on May 5th, 2010
I have just one wondrous word this week – ’waffeting’. It’s from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. In 1529, Cardinal Wolsey has been ordered to go straight to the Tower of London, but he decides to go to Esher. His barge has arrived: When they get out to the cardinal’s barge his flags are flying: the [...]
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction, Wondrous Words Wednesday on Apr 14th, 2010
Wondrous Words Wednesday, run by Kathy (Bermudaonion), is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. This week I have a few words from King Arthur’s Bones by The Medieval Murderers, which I’m currently reading. Calvarium – ‘Gingerly pulling that aside, they gazed down on a jumbled heap [...]
Posted in Wondrous Words Wednesday on Mar 24th, 2010
Wondrous Words Wednesday, run by Kathy (Bermuda Onion), is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. This week I have just two words from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, which I haven’t finished yet. Myxoedema: ‘You’ve considered epilepsy, I suppose?’ ’It was my very first idea. I [...]
Posted in Wondrous Words Wednesday on Mar 10th, 2010
Each Wednesday Kathy (Bermuda Onion) runs the Wondrous Words Wednesday meme to share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. This week my words are from The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (see here for my description of this book). Drugget – “Round the corner it is drugget. A Victorian way [...]
Posted in Wondrous Words Wednesday on Feb 24th, 2010
Each Wednesday Kathy (Bermuda Onion) runs the Wondrous Words Wednesday meme to share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. This week my words are from Poetic Lives: Shelley by Daniel Hahn. This is a short biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this extract Shelley is writing to a friend about the [...]
Posted in Wondrous Words Wednesday on Feb 17th, 2010
Each Wednesday Kathy (Bermuda Onion) runs the Wondrous Words Wednesday meme to share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. My words this week are from The Hollow by Agatha Christie. This is a country house murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot(see yesterday’s post for more details) in which I came across these wondrous [...]
Posted in Memes, Wondrous Words Wednesday on Feb 3rd, 2010
Each Wednesday Kathy (Bermuda Onion) runs the Wondrous Words Wednesday meme to share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. I’ve been reading and learning new (to me) words for a while but haven’t yet joined in. Here are my first “Wondrous Words”, taken from Ian Rankin’s Black and Blue, an Inspector [...]
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