I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.

Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?

  • Reader_0791@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I notice this all the time! I listen to audiobooks most of the time, so hearing a word or phrase repeated can really grind. I recently finished a book where one of the main characters “pointed with her lips” over and over. In another (maybe the same one) the main character continually the exact same “bile in her throat” regardless of the stressor. Really?