Day 33: Her Fearful Symmetry.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

 

From Time Traveler’s Wife to this, I’m really amazed with Audrey Niffenegger’s writing skills.

 

Her Fearful Symmetry is an exciting modern-day ghost story. The novel tackles issues about identity, secrets, love and sisterhood. In addition to that, it continues to explore what are the mysteries of life even after death.

 

10 Words I newly learned from ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’:

(in no particular order from the book)

1. betwixt - between: in the interval

2. garrulous - chatty: full of trivial conversation

3. elegiac - expressing sorrow often for something past

4. grotesque - distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

5. colicky - suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

6. conundrum - riddle: a difficult problem 

7. jocular - humorous, amusing or joking

8. conviviality - merrymaking: a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity

9. abject - showing utter resignation or hopelessness

10. incendiary - involving deliberate burning of property

 

*definitions from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn