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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
Following the tome’s release, Streisand hopped on the phone with Billboard to share a few details that didn’t make the book and reveal one deliciously unexpected benefit of publishing her memoir.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2023
The audiobook of the nearly 1,000-page tome, narrated by Streisand herself, runs to 48 hours.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
This inspirational tome details 150 of Europe’s best slow adventures, such as kayaking through Lithuania and crossing the Arctic Circle by train.
—Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
Our Rolodex had precious little space to detail the origin story of the drink, but a peek at the cocktail tome The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails reveals the drink first appeared in print in a 1930 pamphlet issued in Cuba by Bacardi.
—John Debary, Bon Appétit, 3 Dec. 2023
Barely three years later, Stelter is back with a new tome revolving around many of the same characters but with an even more dramatic backdrop: Trump’s attempt to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
—Vulture, 21 Nov. 2023
By the time she was finished, a decade later, her little leaflet had ballooned into a 600-page tome.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
Critics have praised the 600-page tome for its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles and the lives of entire groups of people often omitted from the historical narrative.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 15 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos section, roll of papyrus, tome, from temnein to cut; akin to Middle Irish tamnaid he lops, Polish ciąć to cut, and perhaps to Latin tondēre to shear
Noun combining form
Greek tomos
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“Tome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tome. Accessed 9 Jan. 2024.
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