(Thanks to Naomi of Cumberbatchweb for this video & her coverage of the Hay Festival.) “My senses have been thrilled and luxuriated in you.” That sentence is one of many I love in that letter, read at the 2014 Hay Festival. I believe I read online that a book of the correspondence between Chris Barker […]

Written by Lisibelle87 on 6 June 2014. No comments »
Category: Books, Quotes, Various
Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hay Festival, Language, Letters, Love

Expanding your Vocabulary with Benedict – Part 1 One great aspect of being a Benedict Cumberbatch fan is that he’s always (inadvertently) inspiring us to improve and expand our vocabulary. Reading interviews every so often sends me scuttling to a dictionary to look up yet another word I’d never heard before. When he used “obfuscate” […]

Written by elen_ancalima on 14 April 2014. 2 comments »
Category: Quotes, Various
Tags: Benedict Cumberbatch, Language