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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
DID NOT FINISH
I'm reading in English as a second language and always have a dictionary near me, but no book made use it for 5 or 6 words in the same freaking line. I didn't thing the writing style was exceptionally superior with all these unused-in-day-to-day-words.
When I first started reading in English I read A Series of Unfortunate Events, and I loved how I found new words that I've never heard or seen before (Not that I ever had a chance to use the word "Austere" yet, mind you). I even liked the way he defined words to fit only the current situation. But Anne just shoves word after word until I have no idea what she is trying to say.
She's no common reader, that's for sure. Unless reading in a dead language is a thing in the USA. (Is it? asking for a friend.)
And what kind of people doesn't know what's a grimoire? Has she never read/seen a horror movie in her life?
I hate this book so much.
When I first started reading in English I read A Series of Unfortunate Events, and I loved how I found new words that I've never heard or seen before (Not that I ever had a chance to use the word "Austere" yet, mind you). I even liked the way he defined words to fit only the current situation. But Anne just shoves word after word until I have no idea what she is trying to say.
She's no common reader, that's for sure. Unless reading in a dead language is a thing in the USA. (Is it? asking for a friend.)
And what kind of people doesn't know what's a grimoire? Has she never read/seen a horror movie in her life?
I hate this book so much.