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tolerford
, May 11, 2007
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Reading Wordstruck is pure self-indulgence, if you respect Robert MacNeil as I do; if you love words themselves; if you know word usage can be as delicious as any slowly spooned pudding. MacNeil began absorbing his love for the sounds of words as a child, his mother reading to him. As a boy, his bedroom window availed him of the sound of fog horns off the shore of Nova Scotia, and when the Titanic sank, he witnessed the body bags being loaded ashore. He has a love of nature that abounds singing in this book. My copy is a treasure, and easily bears a second luxurious reading.
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