40 months in, and adding books remains the one major pain point of my experience @thestorygraph but after 3 hours work, I'm all set for #The StoryGraphReadsTheWorld2024. Now to hope the promised "Number of books" style challenges arrive soon so I can add these to my "30 nonfiction in 2024". #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon#nonfiction
All 6 of my challenges @thestorygraph done for the year, woohoo! The one challenge I couldn't enter was to read LESS than last year, and I'm on track to come in at almost exactly 50% of last year's 454 by the time I've finished #DeanStreetDecember23#AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
It seems #NovemberReads is a thing, so here's mine @thestorygraph - the 36 books I read in November are pretty representative of my tastes as it happens, but did mean I had to make a video, sorry! #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
4.75/5 @thestorygraph for "The Oxford Dictionary of Etymology" Durkin's passion for his subject shines through and lifts the quality of his writing, from beginning
"I would like to thank the dedicatees of this book ("my parents") for tolerating a child’s at times rather obsessive interest in very old documents and even older words."
to end
"like all the best intellectual pursuits, once the bug is caught, it is likely to remain with one for life." #AmReading#ebooks#etymology@bookstodon
TFW a paragraph about #English names in a book on etymology puts a snippet of #German poetry you last read 30+ years ago into your head: "Es war einmal ein lattenzaun mit zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun" (Bonus points for any who know why the poem always reminds me of Emo Philips😀) #AmReading#etymology#nonfiction#poetry#Deutsch#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon
One last gem from "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" - Having come to love the flexibility and specificity afforded by the equivalent words in Hindi, I say " BRING 'EM BACK" #AmReading#ebooks#Linguistics@bookstodon
"Following" up a bit of paper book reading with some real fun - a whole page on the origin of "procession" from "Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English" #AmReading#ebooks#Linguistics#etymology@bookstodon