On the 5th Day of Christmas I pick Hench as my favorite book of #May2022
#12booksof2022
I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ this book, it is tied for my second favorite of 2022 and I can‘t wait for the next one.
#12booksof2022 #May2022 #toppickofthemonth
This is a lyrical,evocative book.Esme spent her childhood capturing word slips that floated from the table where Lexicographers,including her Da sat,making decisions about which words merited inclusion in the Oxford English. Dictionary. Overtime,she noted that words spoken by the common people or women were not included.She spent her life chasing down those very words.🔽
I read the first two books of this series and absolutely loved them.
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“And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it‘s obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn‘t do.”
#May2022
“I wasn‘t heroic. I wasn‘t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn‘t up for solving.”
#May2022
#literarycrew #May2022
182 pages in and I cannot put this down.
“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We have finally reached the shore.”
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