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Maria Valéria Rezende • Quarenta Dias
entymology & word nerds
river stone • 1 card
The banker’s speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses.
George Eliot • Middlemarch
One of my favourite blurb descriptions of a character is of Count Fosco in The Woman in White: ‘who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison’. No need for a ‘sinister’ at all there. Another is on Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude, which tells us that a young woman in a boarding house ‘pecks at spam and mashed potato by night’,
... See moreLouise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
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alice smith • 10 cards