Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
In college, I was obsessed with owning the full multi-volume OED. But with my income, the closest I could get was the 2-volume set in a box witha drawer containing the necessary magnifying glass for the microscopic print required to reduce the dictionary to such a size. When I saw this book about the making of the OED, I was excited to read it and it was better than I expected. The mystery and the sad history of the "madman" made for an engrossing page-turner!