A review by lauralauralaura
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

4.0

This book was a perfect pre-bed read for me. Interesting enough that I wanted to keep picking it up (because I find language endlessly interesting, and because while each chapter is ostensibly about a particular language, the author also uses a chapter to tell a story of linguistic features and how history and culture influence how we think about language and how languages develop), but not so interesting that I stayed up too late reading it.