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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.13 — 164 ratings — published 2017
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.35 — 10,769 ratings — published 2020
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.80 — 199,056 ratings — published 2006
Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.43 — 44 ratings — published
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,041 ratings — published 1911
The Word Collector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,980 ratings — published 2018
Salammbo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,583 ratings — published 1862
Enormous Smallness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,457 ratings — published 2015
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,213 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,376 ratings — published 2011
I Never Knew There Was a Word for It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.67 — 129 ratings — published 2010
Einstein's Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,190 ratings — published 1987
House of Meetings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.41 — 2,730 ratings — published 2006
Other People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,832 ratings — published 1981
Night Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as logophile)
avg rating 3.28 — 6,569 ratings — published 1997
“The brain is more like a muscle and less like a storage area. If you really want to be a writer, you should want to write a lot. If you want to write a lot, then you need to be in training. You are preparing to run marathons, not emptying a suitcase. Learning new languages, acquiring new vocabulary, keeping yourself in various forms of constant logocentric discipline is one of the best things you can do. And language acquisition is nothing if not logocentric discipline.”
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
― Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“I am a lover of words.
If your words don't play with me,
nothing else in you will.”
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If your words don't play with me,
nothing else in you will.”
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