A Book about Books and a Book about Words, plus: Personal Experiences with Nonsense
Book consist of words, obviously. But what about books about words? Or books about books? This blog post will take a look at two of them (book reviews!); then it’ll focus on two nonsense words, one of which is related to the title of one of the books (fun for “werd nerds”!) This will be a long blog post, but at least there will be mondegreens. Some business first. My short story "Silkod of the Drenn" is available in Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Writing . A stand-alone “Tond” story, it is also a (possibly unsolved) call to adventure. Scroll down to find Volume 1, Number 2. Also, continuing the story of Tond, there's Grendul Rising ; here's an interview about it. Also, check out this blog's sister, The SoundScroll . It's about music. Okay, now that that's out of the way, here's the actual blog post. The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston This is a history of the printed page, told with a...