Another book explaining about proverbs? Yes, and an enjoyable and informative one. The reviews have been a bit mixed, some certainly don't like the author's willing ness to share her opinions and asides with the reader, but to my mind that's partly why the book works. Without the human touch a listing of proverbs and popular sayings, where they come from, and (sometimes) what they originally meant, could be very dry.
What we have here is the sort of book you can dip into when you have a minute or two, or you can use to look something up. Both approaches work and you can learn a lot while enjoying yourself. And there was a bonus - it introduced me to the Rev. Charles Caleb Colton, a man whose writing generated so many of our well-know English proverbs and who seems to have been in himself an interesting figure.
The Michael O'Mara series of books of which this is one are smallish, hard-backed (always a good point when you have a book that's likely to be handled a lot), very reasonably priced, and appealing. As might be expected, some are better than others but most are good and this is one of them.
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