Today’s post for the A-to-Z Challenge is brought to you by the letter D!
Did you know…
…Dickens’s house had a secret door in the form of a fake bookcase. The fake books included titles such as ‘The Life of a Cat’ in 9 volumes. (source)
…The word ‘boghandler’ is the Danish word for ‘bookseller’.(source)
…‘Bibliosmia‘ is the enjoyment of the smell of old books.(source)
...Other fun Dickens facts can be found here.
Share some of your favorite literary facts in the comments!
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WHIMSICAL FANCY 
Bibliosmia…that’s me! Now I have a word to describe why I always pick books up and smell while I fan the pages!
Open Minded Mormon A-Z
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Awesome facts! I would love a fake bookshelf that leads to a secret room.
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I did not know any of those 🙂 I wish I had some weird and wonderful facts for you, but I’m afraid my brain is empty at the moment. Hope you’re having a great AtoZ,
Tasha
Tasha’s Thinkings | Wittegen Press | FB3X (AC)
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Thank you for sharing the facts above and I enjoyed learning more about Dickens. But I can not share any facts with you as I do not know of any to share.
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So this might sound cheezy, but I had loved “A Christmas Carol” movie with George C Scott in it. When I got to the point in school that we were actually reading parts of the real book from Dickens, I was amazed here and there, thinking “Wow, they actually said that nearly word for word in the movie!” I was thinking how great it was that the movie “respected” the book so well.
However, I never read the entire book, so let me ask the Dickens fans: Was I right? Was that version of the movie a good representation of the book?
Sue Hernandez
WordPress Blog: Learning to Write and A-to-Z Challenge (#965)
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Did you know that, as a boy in boarding school, Roald Dahl and his classmates tasted chocolate for a local chocolate factory? I wonder if it led to anything?
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