many books, and a new word

This past week has been a week of books. All new ones too. Every now and then I 'rediscover' books for a week or two, and the months seem to go by without anything new to read. This past week has been one long reading romp...

I have read "The Book of Proper Names" (short, strange, forgettable). Then Justine Levy's "Nothing Serious" (disturbed, but magnetically compelling). Then J.M Coetzee's "Slow Man" (as always haunting and profound).

I am now reading "The Sad truth about Happiness".
I came across this sentence today... "Amelia was marrying her peevish landlord without benefit of divorce from her jeremiacal husband..."

This caught my eye. Firstly, I am not sure 'jeremiacal' is a word. But then again, for a woman who thinks coolth is a word, perhaps I don't have room to comment. But secondly, if it is a word, I take it means Jeremiah-like, as in lamenting and full of woe....

I am so glad that my Jerem(y)iac husband is not a jeremiacal husband :-)