Ravenswood Used Books

Friday, February 01, 2013

You Down With OED?


Happy Birthday, OED.

Read more


Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: civil war, etymology, james murray, oxford english dictionary, philological society, samuel johnson, scotland, simon winchester, victorian era, william minor

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The Blessed

The Annals

Out n About

  • The Dick Times
  • Facebook
  • Yelp Reviews
  • Google
  • The Reader Review
  • Tribune Review
  • Center Stage Review
  • CBS Local Best Bookstores
  • Well Community

About Jim

My photo
Jim Mall
Owner of Ravenswood Used Books at 2005 W. Montrose Ave., Chicago 773-593-9166 open seven days noon to six- Administrator of Facebook Group Ravenswood Books which we invite you to join. This Blog is currently co-authored by Jessica Schrock, store manager.
View my complete profile

Search The Labyrinth

Writer's Almanac

Loading...

NYT Book Reviews

Loading...

The Paris Review

Loading...

Granta Magazine

Loading...

McSweeney’s

Loading...

The Rumpus

Loading...

The Short Review

Loading...

Subscribe

Posts
Atom
Posts
Comments
Atom
Comments

Currently Reading

Currently Reading
"...there would have been no disaster; but then, neither would there have been this book."

More Recently Read

  • Bluets/ Maggie Nelson
  • The Goldfinch/ Donna Tartt
  • Red Doc>/ Anne Carson
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay/ Michael Chabon
  • After Dark/ Haruki Murakami

Recently Read

  • The Hours/ Michael Cunningham
  • Mrs. Dalloway/ Virginia Woolf
  • Black Swan Green/ David Mitchell
  • Prodigal Summer/ Barbara Kingsolver
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette/ Maria Semple
  • Cloud Atlas/ David Mitchell
  • The Brief History of the Dead/ Kevin Brockmeier
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay/ Ron Rash
  • East of Eden/ John Steinbeck
  • Distractions/ Miller Williams
  • Wild/ Cheryl Strayed
  • Night Music/ John Clellon Holmes
  • The Glass Bead Game/ Hermann Hesse
  • The Left Hand of Darkness/ Ursula LeGuin
  • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories/ Ursula LeGuin
  • Balkan Ghosts/ Robert Kaplan
  • Winter's Tale/ Mark Helprin
  • March/ Geraldine Brooks
  • Perfume/ Patrick Suskind
  • 1Q84/ Haruki Murakami
  • Orlando/ Virginia Woolf
  • Sputnik Sweetheart/ Haruki Murakami
  • Hotel World/ Ali Smith
  • Swamplandia!/ Karen Russell
  • Olive Kitteridge/ Elizabeth Strout
  • Tinkers/ Paul Harding
  • St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves/ Karen Russell
  • The Brides of Rollrock Island/ Margo Lanagan
  • Tender Morsels/ Margo Lanagan
  • The Baron in the Trees/ Italo Calvino
  • Invisible Cities/ Italo Calvino
  • Weight/ Jeanette Winterson
  • Pale Fire/ Nabokov
  • Shadow of the Wind/ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Phantastes/ George MacDonald
  • The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean/ David Almond
  • I, Claudius/ Robert Graves
  • Rules for the Dance/ Mary Oliver
  • Teaching a Stone to Talk/ Annie Dillard
  • Pilgrim At Tinker Creek/ Annie Dillard
  • Steppenwolf/ Hermann Hesse
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul/ Carl Jung
  • Mr. G/ Alan Lightman
  • The Name of the Rose/ Umberto Eco
  • The Tiger's Wife/ Tea Obreht
  • Blind Assassin/ Margaret Atwood
  • Being Geniuses Together/ Kay Boyle, Robert McAlmond
  • December 6/ Martin Cruz Smith
  • Ford County/ John Grisham
  • A Visit From the Goon Squad/ Jennifer Egan
  • Anne of Green Gables/ L.M. Montgomery
  • The Go-Between/ L.P. Hartley
  • Blue Pastures/ Mary Oliver
  • Meetings With the Archangel/ Stephen Mitchell
  • Summers Without Men/ Siri Hustvedt
  • 84, Charing Cross Road/ Helene Hanff
  • Fatal Interview: Sonnets/ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Watermark theme. Theme images by Ollustrator. Powered by Blogger.