Eats, Shoots & Leaves

from elbakerone

Pull out your correction fluid and editing pens; bring back your grade school grammar memories; open up this book for a hilarious look at the wonderful world of punctuation! (Are those semicolons being used correctly? You'll know for sure once you've read Eats, Shoots & Leaves.) Lynne Truss admit...

from bookworm12

My Achilles heel as a writer has always been commas. I hate them! At the newspaper where I used to work at I once had an editor tell me to start putting commas in wherever I didn't have them and to delete all the ones I'd already put in. Truss' funny little book is a great rundown of the importan...

from omaca

This is a wonderful polemic against poor punctuation, spelling and grammar by British journalist Lynne Truss. Lynne takes aim, and doesn't hold back, on her assault on the falling standards of English in the modern world. Her focus is, of course, the UK and British media and society, but we can a...

from DanaJean

I'm a little nervous even posting this review on a book about punctuation. What if I use a comma wrong? Or misuse my dashes? I sure don't want to let the author down. But, I will try my best and just know, I'm weak at punctuation and I need help. That's why I picked up this book. Who knew punctua...

from SpyGirl116

The must-have Bible for all us self-appointed Grammar Nazis. If misuse of apostrophes and misplaced modifiers drive you up the wall, you'll find a kindred spirit in Britisher Lynne Truss. She takes a Sharpie marker to grammatically incorrect signs that she sees and humorously advocates forming ro...