Art of Memoir is a flashlight under the covers read. I nearly pulled an all nighter because I couldn’t put it down.

Then I pumped the brakes on the back half when I realized how fast the pages were flying by and how sad I was going to be when the book came to the end.

In an effort to slow down, preserve the experience, and document my awe, I made a list of words from the book that I would like to use in a sentence. There were so many good ones.

Would you like to join me in this writing exercise? Here are the words: 

• Lasso

• Hogties 

• Imbibing 

• Nattering

• Parceled out

• Playpen

• “Savagely un-“

• Lodestar 

• Waylaid

• Unbidden

• Agog

• Vexed

• Ersatz

• Stultifying

• Voltage

• Immoderate

• Puckish

• Permutation

• Innards

• I’d hazard that...

• Pogoing

• Drivel

• Sizzled

• Panache

• Portal

• Lineaments 

• Ferocity

• Thunderclap

• Scuttling

• Actively ludicrous