July 11, 2006
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
This is an awesome book. I really enjoyed it. Loads of fascinating punctuation info, and an author I can relate to. I'm a punctuation and grammar stickler myself, and boy howdy, she makes me look laid back about it. She talks about protesting outside a movie theater showing the film Two Weeks Notice with an apostrophe on a stick (it should be Two Weeks' Notice) and going about armed with a small kit to correct misused or absent apostrophes. Awesome.
Admittedly, the book is British and therefore has some stuff in it that made me blink (their rules for punctuation differ from ours in a few places and she defends those differences passionately), but overall I adored it. Good stuff.
Sticklers, Unite!
File under: NonFiction
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