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Didn‘t make a #36by36 update yesterday, so here‘s a twofer. I finished The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows on Monday. Nick Allen would love this book. 🖊️ I am glad I read it and am actually surprised that these are not “actual” words because I have found myself relating to so many of these, some frighteningly specific to my own experience. I hope to own it at some point in print because a lot of these concepts deserve further introspection. ⬇️

Yesterday was full of bowling and Mario Kart as Sundays tend to be 😄 So I didn‘t finish any books but I am halfway through The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows which I am enjoying as much as everyone who has recommended it thinks I will! I also found a Kensington edition of Pucking Wild at my library so I started Tess and Ryan‘s bonus epilogue yesterday too. 🥹 Almost to the midpoint of this challenge. #36by36

Night Sky book cover prompt. This book is going to be on my November TBR as well. #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

A couple new books for the shelf ? the dictionary of obscure sorrows was referenced in Amanda Montell's "The Age of Magical Overthinking" that I listened to a little while back.

This is my Mother's day present from my daughter. It is the coolest book! A compendium of new words for emotions.
When she read the first quote she knew it was a book for me
"I read the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. " Steve Wright.
Yes I read it as a child?
#litsylove

Just finished The Book of Cold Cases. Now on to my 3rd book of the yr already. Crushing it!!! 😜🤓📚

Prompt - kid # 1 picks

I love doing my #BookishMonopoly
It keeps it fun and non-stop.

idlewild - adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can't do much of anything-sitting for hours at an airport gate...which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything at any time and frees up your brain to do whatever it wants to do, even if it's just to flicker your eyes across the passing landscape. From Idlewild, the original name of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.

This book is a journey through completely bizarre yet weirdly common experiences of the human condition. It attempts to put some of our common thoughts and emotions into words. Some definitions are brief and to the point. Others are short essays that explore the feeling more deeply. Parts are quite poetic and just makes me want to create.

I can relate!

I had this expectation, picking up this book, that I would feel real validated (because misery loves company), but instead…its like every time I read a new word, it would bring up a memory. Painful ones, fun ones, ones I had forgotten. Such a pleasant surprise!

Belated Weekly Report.

I've finished Salt Crystals and have started reading a few other books. The Hidden Palace for bookclub, Doctor Thorne, and of course there is the every present Clarissa. Tagged book is not pictured, but is a pleasant interlude from the others.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Highly recommend this book about words. The author provides an enlightening perspective on how to view the world and never be afraid to expand your horizons.
#bestseller #nytimes

"It's up to you. A word is only real if you want it to be."

Enjoying an afternoon at my local coffee shop ☕️

Etterath

Two lovely gifts arrived today. The tagged book, on the right, from my birthday fairy sister @KarenUK and what a beautiful book it is! I can see myself dipping in to it a lot in the next few days. Thank you so much, Karen 😘

The book on the left looks terrific, some wonderful mid C20th women writers. I am guessing it comes from you @LeahBergen Am I right?

This quote is in the front of this book I just began! Seems perfect for a chilly fall evening in the Texas Panhandle! I‘m not working tonight! Choosing to read something not work related! Yay for me!

Anyone else feel this way?

Looseleft, ozurie, indosentia, foilsick, etherness, dorgone, sitheless, kenaway, silience, innity, wenbane, aulasy, enterhood, morii, yu yi, ellipsism, craxis, evertheless: these are just some of the words Koenig invented to name feelings that until now never had one.
Except for a dictionary of new words, the book is a collection of truths, fears and nostalgia. It leaves me a bit sad but I am grateful I read it thanks to the lovely @KarenUK 🤍

This book is filled with beautiful sentences and definitions. Just an example is this quote by Louise Erdrich 🤍

I liked a lot of these words, but a lot of them were also terribly corny, and would never past muster with a lexicographer. Koenig often takes two words from completely different languages and blends them together, which is a big no-no. For me, it's much more rewarding to find an obscure word that already exists than to read Koenig's made-up words, especially when he blatantly throws all the rules of language out the window.

The word is "craxis."

Anticious: adj. Wondering what our ancestors would think of all this.

From antecedent + anxious. Pronounced "an-tish-ous."

Etterath: The feeling of emptiness after a long and arduous process is finally complete--which leaves you relieved that it's over but missing the stress that organized your life into a mission.

Norwegian etter, after + ratne, decay. Pronounced "et-er-ath."

The word is indosentia.

(Continued)...movable goalposts, which makes you want someone to come along and score your progress in discrete and measurable units--which may not clear up where you're going but would at least reassure you that you're one step closer to getting there.

From addled, muddled or unclear, + worth.