ARIZONA TRAVELER: Language

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

PRETTY WORDS

Here are a few pretty words that I love to hear, read, or say:

Couture
Superlative
Upgrade
Effortless
Superfluous

Anticipate
Bliss
Tuileries
Cheerio
Spot-on
Hooray
Dreamy
Bespoke

Do you have any favorite words?

Photo - Ireland, 2004

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BOOKS READ 2015

Book of Mormon
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Bradley)
Fallen Angel (Silva)
The Franchise Affair (Tey)
The Old Fox Deceived (Grimes)
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Bradley)
New Testament - Holy Bible
Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature (Giramonti)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Kondo)
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead (Murray)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Gilman)
Lila (Robinson)
Tea for Two: A Christmas Romance (Hicks)
Murder at the Brightwell (Ames)

BOOKS READ 2013

Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Hanff
Lord James Harrington and the Spring Mystery - Lynn Florkiewicz
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds - Alexander McCall Smith
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth - Alexander McCall Smith
Eleven Pipers Piping - C.C. Benison
Decisive - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Speaking From Among the Bones - Alan Bradley (Kindle)
Book of Mormon
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley (Kindle)
Dreaming of the Bones - Deborah Crombie (Kindle)
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Mourn Not Your Dead - Deborah Crombie (Kindle)
Leave the Grave Green - Deborah Crombie (Kindle)
The Sound of Broken Glass - Deborah Crombie
The Battle - Arthur Brooks
The Blueprint - Schrager
Miss Buncle Married - DE Stevenson

BOOKS READ 2012

Miss Buncle's Book - DE Stevenson
Book of Mormon
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel - Louise Penny (Kindle)
The Road to Freedom - Brooks
The Charming Quirks of Others - Alexander McCall Smith (Kindle)
Where Memories Lie - Crombie (Kindle)
Wolf Hall - Mantle
Catching Fire - Collins (Kindle)
In a Dark House - Crombie (Kindle)
The Hunger Games - Collins
All Shall Be Well - Crombie (Kindle)
A Share in Death - Crombie (Kindle)
Water Like a Stone - Crombie (Kindle)
Arabesk - Barbara Nadel (Kindle)
Necessary as Blood - Crombie (Kindle)
Cambridge Blue - Alison Bruce (Kindle)
Death of a Dreamer - Hamish Macbeth - Beaton
The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
Then Again - Diane Keaton (on tape)
Mozart - Peter Gay
No Mark Upon Her - Crombie (Kindle)
Death of a Gentle Lady (Hamish Macbeth) - Beaton (on tape)
Artists in Crime - Marsh
Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition by Andrew Friedman
Death of a Bore (Hamish Macbeth) - Beaton (on tape)
Wicked Autumn - Malliet (Kindle)
Twelve Drummers Drumming - Benison (Kindle)
Charles Dickens A Life - Claire Tomalin
The House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne (Daily Lit)
Death Comes to Pemberley -James

BOOKS READ 2011

A RED HERRING WITHOUT MUSTARD - Bradley
The Greater Journey - McCullough
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
The Provincial Lady in America - Delafield
William Pitt the Younger - Hague
Last Ditch - Marsh (on tape)
The Lunatic Express - Hoffman
Clouds of Witness - Sayers (on tape)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Simonson
A Month in the Country - Carr
Pancho Villa A Life of Vengeance - Williams
The Daughter of Time - Tey (on tape)
The School of Essential Ingredients - Bauermeister
Book of Mormon
What the Dog Saw - Gladwell (on tape)
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - Damrosch
Unbroken - HIllenbrand
The Enchanted April - von Arnim
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Bradley
Wait for Me! - Mitford
The Lost City of Z - Grann
A Presumption of Death - Walsh/Sayers

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