Well-thumbed
Jul. 25th, 2004 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramFound in a textClipping file on my desktop; I think it’s a response to somebody asking about the term “a well-thumbed book” that I had trouble posting and saved and maybe never got back to:
In other news, I think my infant niece Amanda will grow up to become a ninja.
And Lost in a Good Book, the second of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels, is better than The Eyre Affair, the first.
The term dates back to the days before tape decks in cars. No books-on-tape, so if you wanted reading while you drove, somebody’d have to sit there reading to you. Hitch-hikers would wave books to flag down rides. A “well-thumbed” book was one that had been used a lot in this way. It eventually came to mean any book that had been read a lot.
In other news, I think my infant niece Amanda will grow up to become a ninja.
And Lost in a Good Book, the second of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels, is better than The Eyre Affair, the first.
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Date: 2004-07-26 12:59 pm (UTC)I didn't like the second book as much as the first, possibly due to dissatisfaction with the ending, but I thought the third was definitely the best so far. [And you do know that more are planned, right?]
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Date: 2004-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)The fourth, Something Rotten, is due out in a couple of weeks.