Comments on: THE BROKEN TEAGLASS by Emily Arsenault

By: booklover10

booklover10 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:06:27 +0000

Thanks to Kirstin and Lawrence for your comments.

I was expecting a great deal from this novel, but for me, it worked more as a character study than as a mystery. Still, I admire anyone who adores words as much as I do. I am and always have been a “word junkie.”

By: lawrence

lawrence — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:20:20 +0000

I just cannot wait to read the book of an Author whom i know what inspired her to write the first novel.We are waiting for it in South Africa

By: Kirstin

Kirstin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:16:46 +0000

Very nice, succinct review, Eleanor. I just finished this novel yesterday and then saw your review posted — a bit of synchronicity. I get the feeling I may have liked it a bit more than you. I definitely agree that one of its most interesting aspects is the detail about what lexicographers do with words, but there is also a philosophical bent to it that I relished. I’ll be keeping an eye out for Arsenault’s next work, which could be about teaching, or being a librarian, or working for the Peace Corps — all of which she did after her first job as a…lexicographer.