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Bethan Reborn
Bethan I can't believe he hung up! I tried again but it's always voicemail. I left a message: "Dave, you may not want to talk but I wouldn't have reached out unless I needed your help. Just text me, if you like. I just want to know the names of the boys. If you can remember them, please just text them to me and then I promise, I will never bother you again."
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (The First Nero Wolfe Mystery)
This was my introduction to a new author and new detective, courtesy of my good friend on Vocal, John Cox, who recommended Stout's books. He was right to as well, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: The Power by Naomi Alderman
A lady in a charity shop told me, on scanning The Power, that it was a good read and on the recommendation of a stranger, it went immediately to the top of my reading pile. It is, it is fair to say, a powerhouse of a novel and there was no pun intended there, sincerely.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
This book starts with our heroine, the knowledge-hungry and extremely intelligent, Nombeko, a black girl in apartheid South Africa who is surviving but barely, alongside a mother who has no eagerness to live. Eventually, Nombeko has to find her way on her own.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
Balderdash
My chosen word: Balderdash meaning senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense. I love this word. I love the sound of it as it rolls off the tongue; I love the fact that it is tied up with Britishness; I love using it in the way that it was meant, to say in one word "I don't know what you're talking about, you absolute buffoon", although that sentence in itself is one that makes me smile. When researching the word, the internet also stated this: "Balderdash is a rather out-of-date and archaic word now, with very British overtones. The sort of word a P.G. Wodehouse character might use. Use it in a light-hearted way, therefore, and about something that's pretty trivial." I take umbrage at the "rather out-of-date and archaic" description of this magnificent word. It may not be in general use but I'm keeping it alive and will continue to spout it at every available opportunity.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Poets
