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Jeremy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Who my great-grandfather was. Was he an Italian nobleman, as my grandmother claimed?
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Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare
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2008
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Oxford A-Z of English Usage
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2007
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Harpercollins Spanish Concise Dictionary
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2003
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Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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2015
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Collins Gem Spanish Verb Tables and Grammar
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1995
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Collins Dictionary.
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Collins Easy Learning Spanish Dictionary
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1998
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Philosophy of Physics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 2)
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The Collins Paperback Spanish Dictionary: American Language Edition
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How Writers Extend Standard Metaphors; and how Val McDermid does
In a previous post I did a sort of mini Bluffer’s Guide to conceptual metaphor. (If those at the back of the class need their memories refreshed, please follow this link.)
Now, a claim that one strand of conceptual metaphor theory also makes is this: literary metaphor, far from being uniquely creative, makes widespread use of standard conceptual metaphors but does something rather special with
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| Classic McDermid, creating three-dimensional characters, esp. Karen Pirie, and, in this case, interweaving three plot lines with immense skill. Not to mention her trademark use of metaphor-rich language and perfect pitch for dialogue. | |
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This was just too horribly gruesome for me. I couldn't really see that the female character was so psychologically damaged she could do all the vile things she did. Cummins writes well - though if I read her using he/she 'stilled' again, I'll scream. ...more |
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| What can I say? It's Rankin and it's Rebus. The plot line has more extraordinary twists and turns than you can shake a stick at, some slightly predictable, most less so. The range of locations was hugely varied, taking in several disparate Edinburgh ...more | |
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| Having read Mark Billingham's two latest, I wanted to go back to the beginning to find out more about DI Tom Thorne, who quite intrigues me. I had my own mental image of him, but from Sleepyhead I find it doesn't agree with the 'reality'. Anyway, tha ...more | |
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
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“The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it”
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“Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.”
― Be A Good Human
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