THE LIAR'S DICTIONARY

This was disappointing. I love words, and learning new words, and abstract concepts of language. And so I did love some of the themes of this book – how words are at once futile and arbitrary shapes that someone somewhere decided would mean something and that words are also super powerful in that they can give abstractions a meaning and shared understanding.

However the narrative really doesn't make sense and the characters are flimsy at best. A book about words should have phenomenal writing, but this prose was just okay. Overall a very meh read, though I did learn some new words (and some fake ones).