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Alphabetter Juice, or The Joy of Text

Author : Roy Blount
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429922788
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Alphabetter Juice, or The Joy of Text written by Roy Blount and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists No man of letters savors the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from adhominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice, to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better. This book is for anyone—novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian—who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a "girl gillie," and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a "giantess" than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, "The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ‘sprezzatura,' that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat." Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste.

The Downhill Lie

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307269434
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Downhill Lie written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving range, this time as the father of a five-year-old son–and also as a grandfather. “What possesses a man to return in midlife to a game at which he’d never excelled in his prime, and which in fact had dealt him mostly failure, angst and exasperation? Here’s why I did it: I’m one sick bastard.” And thus we have Carl’s foray into a world of baffling titanium technology, high-priced golf gurus, bizarre infomercial gimmicks and the mind-bending phenomenon of Tiger Woods; a maddening universe of hooks and slices where Carl ultimately–and foolishly–agrees to compete in a country-club tournament against players who can actually hit the ball. “That’s the secret of the sport’s infernal seduction,” he writes. “It surrenders just enough good shots to let you talk yourself out of quitting.” Hiaasen’s chronicle of his shaky return to this bedeviling pastime and the ensuing demolition of his self-esteem–culminating with the savage 45-hole tournament–will have you rolling with laughter. Yet the bittersweet memories of playing with his own father and the glow he feels when watching his own young son belt the ball down the fairway will also touch your heart. Forget Tiger, Phil and Ernie. If you want to understand the true lure of golf, turn to Carl Hiaasen, who offers an extraordinary audiobook for the ordinary hacker. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey.

Glossographia

Author : Thomas Blount
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Glossographia written by Thomas Blount and published by . This book was released on 1661 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet

Author : Mrs. Peanuckle
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1623368707
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet written by Mrs. Peanuckle and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet introduces babies and toddlers to a colorful variety of vegetables, from asparagus to zucchini. Perfect to read aloud, this vegetable buffet will delight children and parents alike with its yummy vegetable facts and vibrant illustrations. Learning the ABCs has never been so delicious! Mrs. Peanuckle's Vegetable Alphabet is the first in a series of board books celebrating the joy of nature at home and in the backyard, from fresh fruits and vegetables to birds, bugs, flowers, and trees.

Alphabetter Juice

Author : Roy Blount, Jr.
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 9780374103705
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Alphabetter Juice written by Roy Blount, Jr. and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh-squeezed Lexicology, with Twists No man of letters savors the ABC’s, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty, full bodied, and out to please discriminating palates coarse and fine. In 2008, he celebrated the gists, tangs, and energies of letters and their combinations in Alphabet Juice, to wide acclaim. Now, Alphabetter Juice. Which is better. This book is for anyone—novice wordsmith, sensuous reader, or career grammarian—who loves to get physical with words. What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the U. S. Supreme Court find relevance in gollywoddles? Might there be scientific evidence for the sonicky value of hunch? And why would someone not bother to spell correctly the very word he is trying to define on Urbandictionary.com? Digging into how locutions evolve, and work, or fail, Blount draws upon everything from The Tempest to The Wire. He takes us to Iceland, for salmon-watching with a “girl gillie,” and to Georgian England, where a distinguished etymologist bites off more of a “giantess” than he can chew. Jimmy Stewart appears, in connection with kludge and the bombing of Switzerland. Litigation over supercalifragilisticexpialidocious leads to a vintage werewolf movie; news of possum-tossing, to metanarrative. As Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post Book World, “The immensely likeable Blount clearly possesses what was called in the Italian Renaissance ‘sprezzatura,’ that rare and enviable ability to do even the most difficult things without breaking a sweat.” Alphabetter Juice is brimming with sprezzatura. Have a taste.

American Alphabets

Author : Wendy Ewald
Publisher : Scalo Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Alphabets written by Wendy Ewald and published by Scalo Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, conceptual photographer Wendy Ewald researches the ability of language to create barriers or alliances between groups according to gender, age, and race. In collaboration with different groups of children she created four alphabets: a Spanish alphabet with English-as-Second-Language students in North Carolina, an African-American alphabet with students at an elementary school in Cleveland, a White Girls alphabet at a boarding school in Massachusetts, and an Arabic alphabet with students at a middle school in Queens, New York. The children collaborated with Ewald to create photographs of objects they chose to represent each letter of their alphabets, objects they picked with a particular eye to the cultural nature of the alphabet they were defining. The result is a dynamic, colorful, idiosyncratic, and overwhelmingly cross-cultural lexicography.

Alphabet Juice

Author : Roy Blount
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429960426
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Alphabet Juice written by Roy Blount and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? —Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can't get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is "over the counter." Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount's Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount's Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is "arbitrary." Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of "alligator arm"), and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.

The Flame Alphabet

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307957519
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Flame Alphabet written by Ben Marcus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.

ABCs for Future Race Car Drivers

Author : Fast K. Club
Publisher : Eat Sleep Race
ISBN 13 : 9780692199015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book ABCs for Future Race Car Drivers written by Fast K. Club and published by Eat Sleep Race. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabet board book for the next generation of motorsports enthusiasts. The book is packed with fun auto related illustrations to teach children.

Save Room for Pie

Author : Roy Blount, Jr., Jr.
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374712883
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Save Room for Pie written by Roy Blount, Jr., Jr. and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The New York Times Book Review) to “a book to read till it falls apart” (Newsweek). Now, in Save Room for Pie, he applies his much-praised wit and charm to a rich and fundamental topic: food. As a lifelong eater, Blount always got along easy with food—he didn’t have to think, he just ate. But food doesn’t exist in a vacuum; there’s the global climate and the global economy to consider, not to mention Blount’s chronic sinusitis, which constricts his sense of smell, and consequently his taste buds. So while he’s always frowned on eating with an ulterior motive, times have changed. Save Room for Pie grapples with these and other food-related questions in Blount’s signature style. Here you’ll find lively meditations on everything from bacon froth to grapefruit, Kobe beef to biscuits. You’ll also find defenses of gizzards, mullet, okra, cane syrup, watermelon, and boiled peanuts; an imagined dialogue between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; input from Louis Armstrong, Frederick Douglass, and Blaze Starr; and of course some shampooed possums and carjacking turkeys. In poems and songs, limericks and fake (or sometimes true) news stories, Blount talks about food in surprising and innovative ways, with all the wit and verve that prompted Garrison Keillor, in The Paris Review, to say: “Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence.”

Mott's A is for Apple

Author : Megan E. Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780448428659
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Mott's A is for Apple written by Megan E. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of Mott's, A is always for apple!But this wholesome and delicious alphabet book serves up much more than just apples. Ever heard of a quince? And when was the last time you met a fiddlehead? Well, here's your chance, because from ABC to XYZ, you'll follow along from tree to vine and even underground to discover all things that grow.

A Beasty Story

Author : Bill Martin Jr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152165604
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book A Beasty Story written by Bill Martin Jr and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of mice venture into a dark, dark woods where they find a dark brown house with a dark red stair leading past other dark colors to a spooky surprise.

ABCD

Author : Sheila Moxley
Publisher : Megan Tingley Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316592406
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book ABCD written by Sheila Moxley and published by Megan Tingley Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cats and dogs racing around in rocket ships, wearing weird and wonderful wigs, and mastering magic tricks offer a unique and amusing way to learn the alphabet.

The Messy Alphabet Book!

Author : Sesame Workshop
Publisher : Sesame Street Scribbles
ISBN 13 : 9781492641407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Messy Alphabet Book! written by Sesame Workshop and published by Sesame Street Scribbles. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for any child who has ever been told to "stop making a mess." In other words, children everywhere will love this book Join Elmo and his Sesame Street friends as they splat, splash, crash, and dash their way through the alphabet "You know, it seems like every alphabet book I read is full of nice, clean things like cute kittens, cuddly puppies, and shiny new toys. That's why I love Sesame Street's Messy Alphabet Book It doesn't have any of those things."--Oscar the Grouch

Just Juice

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590033831
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Just Juice written by Karen Hesse and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.

Feet on the Street

Author : Roy Blount, Jr.
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307237001
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Feet on the Street written by Roy Blount, Jr. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.” So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, character-filled saunter through a place he has loved almost his entire life—a city “like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture.” Here we experience it all through his eyes, ears, and taste buds: the architecture, music, romance (yes, sex too), historical characters, and all that glorious food. The book is divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe—a little bit extra, a special treat for the reader: here a brief riff on Gennifer Flowers, there a meditation on naked dancing. Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights. He captures all the wonderful and rich history—culinary, literary, and political—of a city that figured prominently in the lives of Jefferson Davis (who died there), Truman Capote (who was conceived there), Zora Neale Hurston (who studied voodoo there), and countless others, including Andrew Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Napoléon, Walt Whitman, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Earl Long, Randy Newman, Edgar Degas, Lillian Hellman, the Boswell Sisters, and the Dixie Cups. Above all, though, Feet on the Street is a celebration of friendship and joie de vivre in one of America’s greatest and most colorful cities, written by one of America’s most beloved humorists. Also available as a Random House AudioBook

First Day Jitters

Author : Julie Danneberg
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 1607345498
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book First Day Jitters written by Julie Danneberg and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Head back to school with the bestselling picture book classic! The perennial classroom read-aloud favorite for students and teachers, reminding us we all get the jitters sometimes. A perfect new school year pick for kindergarteners, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders who are feeling nervous or anxious about starting their first day. Sarah Jane Hartwell has that sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach—she's nervous and doesn't want to start a new school year. She doesn't know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it. With a little convicing from Mr. Hartwell, Sarah Jane reluctantly heads to class. Shy at first, she's quickly befriended by Mrs. Burton and is reminded that everyone at school gets the jitters sometimes. A beloved and bestselling back to school staple, Sarah Jane's relatable story and its surprise ending will delight seasoned students and new faces alike who are anxious about their first day. • Includes a Certificate of Courage for First Day Completion and a First Day Memories Sheet!