Think you’ve read that book review before? It’s prob­a­bly a bad case of review­ers lexicon.

In Seven Deadly Words of Book Review­ing, Bob Har­ris adds ‘poignant’, ‘com­pelling’, ‘intrigu­ing’, ‘eschew’, ‘craft’, ‘muse’ and ‘lyri­cal’ to the ageing—but still achingly poignant—list of words that review­ers and pub­lish­ers love too much (where ‘achingly beau­ti­ful’, ‘darkly comic’, ‘decep­tively sim­ple’, ‘pen­e­trat­ing insights’, and ‘that rare thing’ make an appear­ance, among others).

via Intel­li­gent Life