Hey bookworm friends, today is my day of the book tour for The Way By, A Faire Tale and by the way, thanks for stopping by 😉! This book’s writing style is descriptive, flowery, and has an almost historical vibe so I thought it would be fun to share some of the new vocabulary words I learned while reading it!
Thank you to The Write Reads, & Holly Walters for the chance to participate in this book tour!
About The Way By
Author: Holly Walters
Genre(s): Fantasy
Standalone
Publisher: The Three Little Sisters
Format Read: E-Book
Pub Date: January 19, 2024 – OUT NOW!
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Fairies are real. Or they ought to be, at least, according to Madame Bel Carmen’s best hypotheses. Her problem, however, is that after searching the world over for the lore to prove it, she hasn’t uncovered anything that someone didn’t already know. Out of options, she knows her only chance to prove the existence of the Fae is to find someone who’s met them, and she’s just heard tell of a reclusive scholar who has reportedly done just that. This folklorist is more than just withdrawn; she’s nowhere, an academic ghost known only by a few obscure writings.
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6 Words I Learned Reading The Way By
Prosody – noun
The rhythmic and intonational aspect of language.
Theosophical – adjective of Theosophy. Which means:
the teachings of a modern movement originating in the U.S. in 1875 and following chiefly Buddhist and Brahmanic theories especially of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation.
Circumambulations – noun of Circumambulate. Which means:
to circle on foot especially ritualistically.
Trilithons – noun
an ancient stone monument consisting of two upright megaliths carrying a third as a lintel.
Propitiate – verb
to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of: appease.
Proscenium – noun
the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater.
About Holly Walters
Holly Walters originally hails from a small, rural, town in Minnesota. A life-long storyteller, Holly is also a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from Brandeis University working in the high Himalayas of Nepal. While her ethnographic work focuses on fossil folklores and sacred ammonites in South Asia, her creative work pays homage to the dragons, unicorns, and fairy tales of her youth.
When not writing, she can be found perfecting her Medieval archery skills, theorizing about movie plots, and forgetting where she left her tea cup. Today, she makes her home in Boston, Massachusetts, with a very unruly garden, a few equally cantankerous pets, a clever spouse, and a resident house ghost. And since her creepy sculpture hobby hasn’t panned out thus far, she is looking forward to the publication of her first novel and the writing of many more.
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Let’s chat in the comments!
Would you read The Way By? Or, do you like books about fair folk and unicorns?
Hah! Love her author biography. Gardens and medieval archery sound like an interesting combo.
Yes for sure, the author herself sounds like such an interesting person, with a PhD in Anthropology too! And it shows!
These are all interesting new to me words.
Glad to hear you learned some new words too then! 🙂