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“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“and all children everywhere go through a phase in which they become oddly fascinated with the idea of “gone” and “all gone.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
“Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while a bum in Britain is a fanny in America, while a fanny in Britain is—well, we’ve covered that. To a foreigner it must seem sometimes as if we are being intentionally contrary.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Craig’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
130 books
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26 friends
68 books
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97 friends
8 books
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26 friends
705 books
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89 friends
806 books
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244 friends
452 books
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77 friends
40 books
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123 friends
23 books
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128 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Book Club, Business, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Ebooks, Fiction, Food, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science fiction, and Travel
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