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Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century by Liesl Schillinger, Elizabeth Zechel
kathydavie's review against another edition
4.0
A quick nonfictional read that looks at a selection of highly irreverent, lol, words to describe our contemporary condition.
My Take
This is cute with a range of words and their definitions running the gamut from très practical to wild and crazy. And yes, there were a few that spoke to me and of me in this, lol, as well as some that relate to writers. Some of my favorites are baitface which seemed accurate in a roundabout way; anorexual spoke to me for its hypocrisy and ill-advised judgments; bloggerdudgeon which enjoys the turnabout-is-fair-play rule; and, lord knows I’ve done enough hollowgrams and I know too many impedimentors.
Oh, oh, and then the apocapic sounds like too many books I’ve been reading lately, *more laughter*. Thank god for Schillinger’s explanation of the droidian slip…here I thought it was just old age… Then there’s the new anocleansic, which involves more people than I want to acknowledge, and blotter which is an old, old plan.
At last kids have a term to explain their moms humiliating them! And the expense of going organic gets the warm, green, fuzzies!
Schillinger has broken her former posts up into several categories: fashion and style; politics, media, and celebrity; friends, frenemies, and fellow students; the office; the way we live now; wired world; romance; fasting, feasting, and carousing; domestic life; in transit; sports and leisure; and, the money pit.
Oh, LOL, Schillinger, I do love your mute point! And I do have it in line to do a Word Confusion on this one.
This is just a sample; you’ll find lots more to laugh over, roll your eyes at, and shake your head in dismayed wonder.
The Cover
The cover is a beautiful teal blue with silver frills with tiny flowers and leaves framing the title and the author’s name with silver birds in profile while the subtitle and the illustrator’s name is in white.
The title is a play on the focus on words plus the birds Zechel has drawn to illustrate the definitions and examples. It’s the Wordbirds that keep us in stitches.
My Take
This is cute with a range of words and their definitions running the gamut from très practical to wild and crazy. And yes, there were a few that spoke to me and of me in this, lol, as well as some that relate to writers. Some of my favorites are baitface which seemed accurate in a roundabout way; anorexual spoke to me for its hypocrisy and ill-advised judgments; bloggerdudgeon which enjoys the turnabout-is-fair-play rule; and, lord knows I’ve done enough hollowgrams and I know too many impedimentors.
Oh, oh, and then the apocapic sounds like too many books I’ve been reading lately, *more laughter*. Thank god for Schillinger’s explanation of the droidian slip…here I thought it was just old age… Then there’s the new anocleansic, which involves more people than I want to acknowledge, and blotter which is an old, old plan.
At last kids have a term to explain their moms humiliating them! And the expense of going organic gets the warm, green, fuzzies!
Schillinger has broken her former posts up into several categories: fashion and style; politics, media, and celebrity; friends, frenemies, and fellow students; the office; the way we live now; wired world; romance; fasting, feasting, and carousing; domestic life; in transit; sports and leisure; and, the money pit.
Oh, LOL, Schillinger, I do love your mute point! And I do have it in line to do a Word Confusion on this one.
This is just a sample; you’ll find lots more to laugh over, roll your eyes at, and shake your head in dismayed wonder.
The Cover
The cover is a beautiful teal blue with silver frills with tiny flowers and leaves framing the title and the author’s name with silver birds in profile while the subtitle and the illustrator’s name is in white.
The title is a play on the focus on words plus the birds Zechel has drawn to illustrate the definitions and examples. It’s the Wordbirds that keep us in stitches.
ivanssister's review against another edition
3.0
A quick faux dictionary like the old Sniglets series. There are a few fun words I'd think about employing.
michebookies's review against another edition
3.0
3.5. Reading this ten years after publication really makes it dated and of it’s time. I haven’t thought of lolcats in a minute. But, some of these ideas are definitely still around, even if the words never caught on. The early ‘10s were wild.
sarah_caldwell83's review against another edition
4.0
Note: I received this book in a Goodreads Giveaway.
I found Wordbirds incredibly amusing. (The tumblr page is quite nice too, anyone who is thinking of buying the book should go check it out.)
This book is part dictionary and part ... pun. It's fun to flip through, and finding ways to slip the "wordbirds" into conversation gives one the most wonderfully sneaky and delighted feeling. The illustrations are beautiful, there's one for most every word, and they add a lot of charm to the book.
I found Wordbirds incredibly amusing. (The tumblr page is quite nice too, anyone who is thinking of buying the book should go check it out.)
This book is part dictionary and part ... pun. It's fun to flip through, and finding ways to slip the "wordbirds" into conversation gives one the most wonderfully sneaky and delighted feeling. The illustrations are beautiful, there's one for most every word, and they add a lot of charm to the book.
alexandraemmaalaska's review against another edition
3.0
There were a few gems in here which I have shared but most of the words had no ring to them.
carley's review
2.0
I received this book through Goodreads First Reads. I really don't like having to rate books on a five-point scale. It's not that I disliked this book. It was cute and the illustrations were great. The words are witty and the examples made me laugh. But that's all. It's cute. It's novelty. It would be a good little gift to give someone who's into words and pop culture.
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