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Solos. Emily Lime is a photographer obsessed ob��sess?v. ob��sessed, ob��sess��ing, ob��sess��esv.tr.To preoccupy the mind of excessively.v.intr. with words. From her own nameto her compulsion to photograph only three words (dog, bread, time), thesound of language is of endless fascination. Between Otto and Izzy (herdog and cockatiel cockatielCrested, small, gray Australian parrot (Nymphicus hollandicus). It has a yellow head, red ear patches, and a heavy beak used to crack nuts. The cockatiel is in the same family (Cacatuidae) as the larger cockatoo. About 13 in. ), her old Brooklyn studio apartment and herlovable-oddball Williamsburg neighbors, Emily is happy. But her worldturns upside-down when she falls for her dog-walker and fellowlanguage-lover Marcus Mead, who is sixteen years her junior and the sonof her paranoid ex-husband. Unknown to Emily, the ex-husband wants herdead as part of a money-making scheme, and has asked Marcus to kill her.Caught between his possibly dangerous and crazy father, his painfulchildhood, and his growing feelings for Emily, Marcus doesn't knowwhich way to turn. Will Emily and Marcus find love and linguisticcontentment without her getting killed or him going crazy? This novel by Kitty Burns Florey, a paperback published by BerkleyBooks for $14 (ISBN ISBNabbr.International Standard Book NumberISBNInternational Standard Book NumberISBNn abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m0-425-19599-6), is saturated with wordplay. Eachchapter is headed by a palindromic pal��in��dro��micadj.Relapsing; recurring. phrase (No Garden, One Dragon. Mix aMaxim," Murder for a Jar of Red Rum). Emily word-ladders theirsurnames (Lime-line-lane-land-lend-lead-Mead) and anagrams an��a��gram?n.1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.2. anagrams (used with a sing. his name (Dr.Maus came, Mama's cured) and keeps a computer file on him labeledScarum. (Too bad Florey didn't notice that Emily's three wordsanagram anagram[Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. to Mead got bride; however, she does give credit to the WordWays website in her acknowledgements!)