What a great book can do

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron

Word. *grin*
So true and how do I know? I've experienced books that leave me with many experiences and at the end of the book I am reluctant to close it and end the story and my time with the characters. I love it when an author can do that for their readers. What is also so fun is that everyone has different authors that do this for them, we don't all like the same authors so that's why there can be so many authors and titles within genres. I love reading, I'm pretty sure this doesn't surprise any of you. And I love it because it opens up adventures for me and you. Styron is right, we can live several lives while reading. I think through several books that I have read that this has occurred. One series this has definitely happened with is Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series. Talk about living several lives while reading!

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Search This Blog