Exceedingly Mundane

I finished another library book last night, the fifth book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. I still have several of these left to go, and am slowly checking them out of the library. They’re really light and easy books to read, with a different pace and voice to them, but I do enjoy them. Really like little short stories and vignettes woven throughout each book. And certainly the setting, Botswana, is different from most everything I read.

I also enjoy these books because I don’t have to stop and look up a lot of words! 😆 I don’t like books where I have to stop every page or so and look up a word or figure out what it means. It distracts me from my reading, but I do have to know and therefore have to stop. In this book, I only wrote down four words, although I think I pretty much knew two of them (or figured it out from the sentence), but still, I love to learn new words.

Here’s the words I wrote down… see if you know any or all of them! I’ll put a link to the definitions on the extended page.

1. Diurnal
2. Didactic
3. Stentorian
4. Imprecations

For the record, that makes 35 books read so far this year, with a total of 10,907 pages read. I am still trying to decide what to read next. Therein lies my dilemma. I have a huge TBR pile of books here and then there’s always the library (and my ever-growing list of 100 or so books I want to check out). I am going to try to stay out of the library until after our vacation though. I don’t like to take library books with me out of town; I’d rather travel with my own books. So, I will have to go through my pile of books later today and see what strikes my fancy. I don’t think I want to read a book that is a part of a series, and I have a lot of those. I’ve already got so many other series started, in progress, that I don’t think I need to start any more. 🙄

Have a good day, and Happy Reading!!!

Did you know all of these words? Here’s a link to them at a dictionary site, as well as a brief definition:

1. Diurnal – daily or occurring during the daytime
2. Didactic – Morally instructive, moralize excessively
3. Stentorian – Extremely loud
4. Imprecations – Curses

And here’s the sentences they were used in:

1. Sleep was welcome; the nightmare that he had experienced had been a diurnal one, and now it was resolved.
2. Surely Mma Holonga, with her wealth and position, could find somebody better than this curious teacher with his ponderous, didactic style.
3. There was only one hold-up – a small herd of rickety cattle, badly looked after by all appearances, which blocked the road until Mma Potokwane opened her window and shouted at them in a stentorian voice.
4. No No No! thought Mma Makutsi, willing her employer not to yield to the imprecations of the manipulative Mma Potokwane.