pickA young boy from the city spends his tenth summer on his aunt and uncle‘s farm, where he becomes pals with his fearless and reckless cousin Harris…
#Pantone2023
#MarchMadnessReadathon Day 17
#middlegrademarch @megnews
pickQuick read.
Might not have learned anything new, but definitely funny.
Brief explanations and interesting graphics.
Also, I got a bucket-bag with 'the Duck' from the famous German kids' TV show "Die Sendung mit der Maus" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Sendung_mit_der_Maus
Additions to the yellow non-fiction bookshelf.
Yes, it's also an addition to the books about swearing, which, all but one, have yellow covers. 😁
pickI don‘t tend to swear much, but I find books about swearing just as fascinating as other aspects of language. This one includes some interesting discussion of gestures in addition to spoken language and quite a bit about how the brain works in relation to profanity.
#audiobook #nonfiction
According to goodreads, I read 17 books last year, which sounds about right, most were nonfiction and two took an inordinate amount of time (I'll make a post about my dislike for reading challenges/targets that focus on counts another day). There are the best and worst (finished) books from last year.
pickAbsolutely fantastic, read this book. Thorough without being dry, hilarious when applicable, informative as hell. Wonderful. Best book this year. Had to buy it when I was halfway through the library copy. (why it took me forever? I fell back into an old fandom and read a couple of hundred thousand words of fic instead of books.)
I really love this book, so don't ask me why I'm reading it at a literal snail pace of approximately one word per day.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
"When I was about nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a 'twat'."
#SuperSeptember @Andrew65 @EadieB
First but last book from my #SceptreSummer #TBR. @DuckOfDoom @Maike
Thank you, @squirrelbrain, for giving it to me.
#SuperSeptember @Andrew65 @EadieB
"Biblical Hebrew is extremely euphemistic- it often substitutes a an indirect and inoffensive term for one thought to be blunt or offensive. /... / it never says have sex with when a man can know a woman /.. / or sexiest of all, the two can eat bread together. "
I admit laughed at that last bit.
