Can you believe it's Thursday already? I guess that's what happens when you have a holiday (-ish). I was able to leave the office at noon this past Labor Day Monday, so that's a little bit more time for reading and relaxing. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday, regardless of whether or not you had to labor on the holiday that exists to honor that labor. You get it. Anyway, moving forward. I am really excited about this upcoming weekend. My lovely boyfriend, J, is taking me on a little adventure to North Carolina. Winton-Salem, to be exact. I don't know much more than that... he just happens to be an excellent secret keeper. So here's to a surprise-filled weekend!
I recently picked up Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin: A Novel
(which I'll be posting about upon completion). To choose one word, or even a few, from such a verbose novel has proven difficult. I've decided that I can't read it unless I have the dictionary propped open next to me; otherwise, I'd miss many important details. So, expect many words from this endeavor to appear, here, on the Bookworm Meets Bookworm site.
Today's word: insouciance.
Insouciance- Noun, first used in 1799. 1. lighthearted unconcern: NONCHALANCE.
What I would say: His insouciance during the evacuation was due to the amount of drinks he had consumed before it occurred.
Any exciting plans for the weekend? Any books you're really excited to get your hands on soon? I'd love to hear!
I was really looking forward to the content I was going to be able to provide today after attending last night's lecture at the Atlanta History Center featuring Jonathan Safran Foer. Sadly, an appointment I had ended up exceeding the allocated time and I didn't get out until after the lecture had already started. I'm not really upset that I paid for the ticket and didn't go; I'm upset because I had been anticipating the event for weeks, looking at my calendar, counting down the days. My new mission is to find someone that did attend the lecture and persuade them to provide a guest post...wish me luck! This weekend has so much in-store for me that it's hard to be too down about missing Foer speak. Check out the events going on this weekend at the AJC-Decatur Book Festival if you haven't already.
So it's finally Thursday. I love Thursdays because I love the fun-filled weekends that constitute my routine and because Thursday is really close to Friday, and Friday's kind of like a weekend day... well, you get it! So here we go: I've pulled many words from my ARC of All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost
by Lan Samantha Chang which I'm currently reading. I'll be providing a review of this eloquently crafted novel the day of it's release, September 27th.
Today's word: Redolent.
Redolent: Adjective, 15th century. 1. exuding fragrance : AROMATIC. 2. A: full of a specified fragrance : SCENTED. B: EVOCATIVE, SUGGESTIVE.
What I might say: Thanksgiving nostalgia prompts a longing for the redolent aroma of pumpkin pie and roasted sweet potatoes.
Fall is around the corner: my favorite time of year. What sensations/memories does Fall evoke for you?
Happy Thursday... one more day away from the always anticipated weekend! My apologies for the lack of posts this week, but throughout the weekend and next week you can bet that I'll have some great content. I'll be finishing Kathryn Stockett's The Help
at the end of the day, which has been a real pleasure, and would love to bring some great thoughts for discussion to the table. Next week, I'll be attending Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals book tour and will be taking lots of notes to share with the blogging world. Furthermore, I'm happy to say that I have some very fun posts that will help Atlantans learn more about the book stores in their area, but I can't spoil the entire surprise, so you'll have to sit tight!
I've got a long list of words compiled for this entertaining meme, so many that it makes it truly difficult to decide which word I'll choose next. So here we go... another word picked from my endeavors with Memory Wall: Stories
, paroxysm.
Paroxysm: Noun; 15th century. 1. a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : CONVULSION. 2. a suddent violent emotion or action : OUTBURST.
What I would say: The paroxysm by the protestors, at the start of the parade, frightened the children.
Okay, I've got to find some more positive words. There's always next time...
Here's to another Thesaurus Thursday! I'm sitting here looking through my notebook with all of the words I've noted while finishing up Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall: Stories, and I'm trying to choose a word that would be fitting for a day filled with rain and grey skies.
So how about infinitesimal? I think I can work with it.
Infinitesimal- Adjective; Originated around 1710. Meaning: 1. Taking on values arbitrarily close but greater than zero. Or, 2. immeasurably or incalculably small.
What I might say: Despite the paper's promise of an infinitesimal chance of rain, the sky tells me we'll probably be staying in tonight.
Any other uses? I'd really enjoy some suggestions.
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Another week, another Thesaurus Thursday! And I'm excited to share that I've got quite the list going with all the new books I've started... so, hopefully you'll be back for more! Like ineffable, I really like the sound of truculent; and I just happened to see this beautiful string of letters forming this overwhemingly rich word in Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
, which I finished on Monday evening. I immediately added it to my Thursday list so I could share all of it's possibly meanings.
Truculent, and it's uses- Adjective. Circa 1540 (it's old). 1. feeling or displaying ferocity: CRUEL, SAVAGE. 2. deadly, destructive. 3. scathingly harsh; VITRIOLIC., and 4. aggressively self-assertive: BELLIGERENT.
I would say: Such truculent actions only improve one's credibility in the eyes of the heartless.
Hmm... That's a little depressive. Give me some suggestions! Nothing wrong with sharpening the ol' vocabulary a bit, right?
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