Her Name Was Rose is a wild ride of a psychological thriller that caught me up in the first chapter and kept my head spinning until the surprising turn of an end. Some of the language can be attributed to the novel’s setting on the Donegal Coastline of Ireland.
In this blog, I offer a different type of book review—one that’s combined with vocabulary building. Included here, are a few interesting words I found in Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan.
The following includes just a few words from Her Name Was Rose that I found interesting:
eejit: noun. Informal Irish and Scottish form of idiot.
From Her Name Was Rose:
“I want to be a complete madly-in-love eegit and wear a T-shirt that says I love Owen & Owen loves me! on it.”
klaxon: noun. <Trademark> An electric horn or a similar oud warning device. Origin — Early 20th Century from the name of the manufacturing company.
From Her Name Was Rose:
“She’d spoken to my family, for God’s sake, sounded the ‘Emily is going off the deep end’ klaxon.”
Definitions are typically from the dictionary that comes with my Mac or The New Oxford American Dictionary.
“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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