2022/26: The Liar's Dictionary -- Eley Williams

2022/26: The Liar's Dictionary -- Eley Williams

Winceworth had returned to vexing over why no word had been coined for the specific type of headache he was suffering. The bitter meanness of its fillip, the sludgy electric sense of guilt coupled with its existence as physical retribution for time spent in one’s cups. A certain lack of memory, as if pain was crowding it out. You drink too much and this headache was the result – the world was surely in the market for such an affliction to bear a name? [p. 50]

From 'A is for artful (adj.)' to 'Z is for zugzwang (n.)', this is a novel for lexicophiles: for people (like me) who, reading it, would use the Kindle dictionary lookup (with varying degrees of success) for agrupt, forbs, grawlix, leucocholy, peltee, smeuse, zarf ... and would be charmed, rather than vexed, by the existence of mountweazels.( Read more... )