Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | 
#julyjam #jokeday Quite the shade being thrown at the startup tech boom industry here from a career journalist taking a stint job in one. Also, grammatical, punctuation, and language humor. Also, me posting a hopefuls stack, as if I can finish them!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
pickAs an English teacher and someone fascinated by the way language changes over time, I truly enjoyed this entertaining and informative look at punctuation.
#nonfiction
May #DoubleSpin
I always find it fascinating when my reading of one book coincides with or impacts my reading of another. I‘ve often compared the word choice of different Bible versions, but I‘ve never slowed down to analyze punctuation differences. These examples make some interesting points.
#BibleBuddyRead #PunctuationMatters
It‘s the last full week of school and I should absolutely be grading finals, but I‘m taking a short break to read in the hammock because I‘ve had almost no print reading time this week. I‘ve only finished the first full chapter of this, but I‘m amused and enjoying it.
#Nonfiction #TeachersOfLitsy
so-soFinished my first Feb #roll100! Needed something light and short: work this week was 😫
I agreed with some of the sentiment here, but thought Truss repeatedly calling people who make grammatical mistakes “illiterate” a bit much. As an American, some references didn‘t land and some rules here are different.
Enjoyed the historical bits and discovering the pictured reference to Chekhov‘s parody of A Xmas Carol, which I‘ll now be reading in Dec!
My latest #librarystack!
Bailed on Then We Came to the End and moving on to Eats, Shoots and Leaves for #roll100
Over 25% in to Ivanhoe and liking it more than I thought I would (also for #roll100)
The Assistant & Princess Bride are for #bookspin, Ficciones is for #foodandlit (my first time participating!)
The Help is my #doublespin from Jan and I‘ll try to get to it this month, but kinda doubting I will. Spoiled for reading choices!
SING FOR ME!!!
I feel like the Phantom of the Opera shouting at Christine when he‘s taken her to his underground lair.
pickThis is entertaining, didactic, funny, snobbish, elitist, and workman-like. Lynne takes us through the history and usage (and mis-usage — oh, the mis-usages!) of punctuation. Great for writers and for anyone who can remember typing period - backspace - apostrophe to get an exclamation point on an old typewriter. “Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn‘t have a lot of that to begin with.“
Man oh man, has this been a productive weekend! I managed to knock off a ton of books, and check off some more challenges. I hope everyone had a great weekend, and enjoyed whatever they read. 🥱 I‘m heading to bed to cozy up with this book before I head to sleep. I‘ve got another early morning shift tomorrow 😴
I‘ll give my final #24B4Monday reading stats and my week 1 #MidyearRush updates tomorrow at some point. Happy Sunday!
“While other girls were out with boyfriends on Sunday afternoons, getting their necks disfigured by love bites...”
“When other girls of my age were attending the Isle of Wight Festival and having abortions...”
The older I get the more I hate statements like these. It made me want to throw the book. I get she‘s trying to make a point and be funny but it comes off really poorly.
pickThe author tells you in the beginning whether or not this book is for you by telling you of a sign on a shop near her house that says, “Come inside for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's, and BOOK's.“ As Truss says, “If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once.“
A delightful reread for the #24b4Monday readathon, bringing me to 6hrs 45mins -
I've never tried a readathon before, so I thought I would give this one a whirl!! I don't know how much time I'll have to just sit and read, so I'm setting 24 hours as my goal and I will see what happens. I'll post my proposed stack tomorrow, but I know that the tagged book will be in it!!
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72 #24B4Monday
#LilithJuly #myfavoritemistake
This prompt made me think of grammatical mistakes, and this book & Oxford comma joke.... maybe because I make so many! 😂🤦♀️
This book is really fun.... 💕
“If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening if the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once.”
I‘m geeking out! 🤓 I‘m so excited to read this!
pickI expected dry, headache-inducing chapters about punctuation. Instead, I got a quick, hilarious read in which the punctuation lessons are leavened with wit, and the history of punctuation, cherry-picked for its quirkiest moments. If you're behind on your reading goals for this year, this book is 200 pages. The author, as shown above on her book jacket, is defacing property, because the movie "Two Weeks Notice" is missing an apostrophe—the horror!
The magic that happens with edited punctuation!
"A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing."
Thank you spell checker - the word ‘unputdownable‘ is an unpardonable use of the English language lol.
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#writer #author #martynjpass #romance #book
Punctuation saves lives!
#leaves
#fallintoreading
@vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickFun and informative. Living in a grammar-free world would be much less stress, but since grammar seems to be here to stay, we should probably try to use it properly. I think grammar-nazis are terrible though, and they should be more kind and understanding of people who don't know better. All communication is valid.
Sign I‘m passing at the moment .... anyone want to start with the red pen of grammar Damocles? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Who knew punctuation could be so fun?
Fresh Oyster‘s—fresh oysters what?! This same menu also said ‘fish and chips‘. Yes, I‘m single quotes. It was actual fish, not vegan fish. We debated why the quotes were there and ordered other things.
Book: tagged
Author: e. e cummings
Movie: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Food: egg foo yung
#manicmonday @JoScho
pickActually very entertaining. A book about punctuation.
I did a double-take when I read this. This should say “98 live baby SHARKS...” Missing words matter! 😂 #grammarpoliceonduty
I was recently at our local museum and chuckled at this description!
Here‘s the link to play along:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/what-punctuation-mark-are-you/
🤣🤣🤣
Love that Oxford comma.
Sorry the whole meme wouldn‘t fit in the photo edit.
• well, now I know: I‘m a COMMA!!! 😉 •
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/what-punctuation-mark-are-you/
#riotgrams Day 11: punctuation
This prompt was so difficult! Most of the punctuation in my shelf is apostrophes—was glad to also find a hyphen, an exclamation mark, a comma, & an ampersand. Eats, Shoots & Leaves is one of my favorite books :D
pick#riotgrams theme today is #punctuation . Time for comma wars! Starlord and Gamora will fight it out for us. I am forever on #teamoxfordcomma !😀
My favorite book on #punctuation, and probably the most-used for this prompt! #riotgrams @Liberty
#riotgrams #punctuation
Both funny and serious. Indispensable!
Some writerly books I recently picked up...
This sign reminded me of one of my favorite reads. I love to laugh out loud about grammar and punctuation.
Hat tip @Kappadeemom for this beauty! I guess eating kids is healthier than eating laundry pods? Taste like chicken? 🤔 😆 #LitsyHumor
so-soThe longer this took me to get through the less I enjoyed it. In general it was just meh. I was so excited to read a book that sings to the nerdy grammar lover part of me and with the dry British humor? Even better. Then it just fell flat.
Gift from a friend who knows me well
