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Let's just talk about books you like by authors you completely respect. Now... ever notice the overuse of a word? Some words are so strange that even once seems like too much. For example, the other day I ran across "marmoreally":

“OK, so stay awake, right?” he said, pressing as much of his surface as he could against her marmoreally cold skin.

I was listening to an audiobook, and I thought maybe the reader was garbling "mammalian"... or, I guess, "mammalianly." But no, it was "marmoreally." That means like marble, so "marble-like" would have been an easily comprehensible alternative. Or, no... it would need to be an adverb ("marble-likely"?). So, okay. I learned a word.

And what I want to talk about are more normal words, words you understand, but you have the feeling that they can't be used more than, say, once every 100 pages. The book I just read is Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," and the word somebody should have told him not to use so much is "reproach." He used "reproach" 19 times. It's a long book, but it's not 1,900 pages. It's not even 1,000.  It's 600. So 19 is too much. I know. I'm reproaching. But...

Connie, for her part, whenever it became clear that the boys were going off to be boys, knew enough to fall back and dematerialize without reproach or entreaty.... She was competing with her mom and sisters. She wanted her kids to be a reproach to them.... She’d never been a compromiser of him, never an insister on sidewalk hand-holding, never a clinger, a pouter, a reproacher.... Joey’s feeling of bereavement was giving way to irritation, because, no matter how much she denied that she was doing it, she couldn’t seem to help reproaching him. These moms and their reproaches, there was no end to it....The nature of his mother’s reproach wasn’t simple the way Carol Monaghan’s was. Carol, unlike her daughter, was not too bright. Connie had a wry, compact intelligence, a firm little clitoris of discernment and sensitivity to which she gave Joey access only behind closed doors....

And on and on. There are 13 more.

Have you ever noticed something like that?

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