Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Hello November!

 

Winter is coming, but first Friendsgiving and Thanksgiving πŸ‚πŸπŸ’•❄️ and even more time to make time for friends as the other holidays arrive. Oh, and let's not forget Black FridayπŸ–€. Should you stay in to shop or hit the stores this year? So are you ready? 


The Bookstore Sisters Short Story: Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.

But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path—and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself.

The Dictionary of Lost Words: Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men.

As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.

Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world.




4 comments:

  1. Happy November!!! I hope you had a nice Halloween. The Bookstore Sisters sounds fun. Both books do though, actually.

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  2. Gracias por la reseΓ±a. Ten un genial mes. Te mando un beso.

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  3. Both of these books sound terrific, especially The Dictionary of Lost Words! Just when I thought I knew all the ways that the patriarchy victimizes and belittles women . . . Just added it to my reading list! πŸ“š

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