I shall eat up Irenosen Okojie's debut novel, Butterfly Fish Jacaranda Bookss £12.99), which I've read in draft and it is vital, vivid, witty, truthful; can't wait to read it as a book.
Boltzmann at his best could be witty, passionate and a delight to read.
Frayling ponders the influence of this belligerence in the real world in this excellent and witty analysis". "Charming and fun to read...
I can think of no surer way to be put off the work of George Eliot than by trying to read the "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings".
While it's fun to read Fenwick's witty disquisitions — "Babies: Wherein the author discusses little and greedy humans"; "Strangers: Wherein the author tests 'stare frequency' "; "Wealth: Wherein the author can't understand why you are poor" — the real joy of the book is the variety of quirky scrawls.
Many are witty and original but can be difficult to read at first glance.
It was a pleasure to read the elegant and witty commentary by Gutierrez and Fuller [ 1] regarding our paper published in Shock [ 2] on resuscitation of rats using our aloe-derived drag-reducing polymer (DRP) solution.
His film pieces — witty, informed and insightful — are an absolute pleasure to read.
So I was pleased — though still mystified — to read in Deborah Fallows's charming and witty little book that in China, "if you ask someone where their hometown is, they'll say it is seven hours by bus.
What book would you require all heads of state to read? "The Art of the Impossible," Vaclav Havel at his deepest, wittiest and most eloquent.
Richardson's argument, cogent, witty and persuasive, backed up by prodigious research and sumptuous illustrations, makes this herculean biography increasingly harsh, tough and uncomfortable to read.
