While reading Salam Pax; The Baghdad Blogger...I suddenly remember how challenged I was, when a friend told me "you must read a lot..." just because I never heard and know the word "spinster"...ha-ha!
Really fueled me to read a lot (Ha-ha, yarright!)...unfortunately, until my NO.th book (not more than 2 figure, I think she's absolutely right, I don't read a lot, I just spend my time playing those word games and ya zombies games) I haven't came across with that word. It makes me wonder, why didn't I came across with that "alien" word even after reading X books?...Perhaps because; i) I don't read fiction novel as much as she did ii) even if I do read fiction, it's because I am more attracted to male story (when the hero of the story is a man, they usually don't really give a damn on the word "spinster", they more attracted to widow, mother, wife and the lady sitting next to him (a virgin!)) or iii) oh yes, of course...I haven't reach the goal to read hundred books per year...Ahhaa....or maybe iv) I haven't memorise the gazillions words they listed in Oxford Dictionary...exactly! Yes...!
So Emilia, you must read A LOOOOOT, widen your reading spectrum...and of course, please, Oxford Dictionary. He-he.
But what really important is; take her words as a challenge and keep on reading.
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