Oh dear, that's not a promising start to a blog entry. I can see my readers heading off in droves.
Anyway - I thought I don't read as many (non techie) books as I used to. Plenty of techie books on gait, amputee rehab and various other specialities, and all jolly interesting they are too, but it's not a way of relaxing from work. So - on seeing the book below on sale cheap with a copy of the Times, I went for it.
I've always liked Stephen Fry - his humour, and above all, his use of words, because I too have a fascination with words. I love puns, and I'm captivated
by stories of the origins of words. Plus I like the way Stephen plays with words on programmes like Qi.
Anyway, I'm about a quarter of the way through so far, and it's all very much what you might expect. Tending to digress at times, but they're funny diversions, at least to me, and he has the ability to paint wonderful pictures with words. He almost had me wanting to try a pipe with his description of pipe smoking, as well as throwing in fancy words like dottle. Plus he's quite happy to coin new words like the adjective "cardiganny", which is perfect for some groups of people
Anyway - what's this all got to do with my bucket list?
Well - it's spawned a few new bucket list entries. I want to read more books, and I want to learn new words. So - one target is to learn new word every day (at least), and read at least one non-techie book every month. Fan-bloody-tastic! (which is an example of tmesis, for anyone interested).
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