Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
This was an enjoyable book about punctuation for sticklers. It is part history
of punctuation, part rule book of punctuation use, part biography of the trials
and tribulations of a stickler, and part ‘greatest hits’ collection of
improperly-punctuated prose. Both the joy and the weakness of this book is
that all those bits are mixed together in a hodge-podge. That makes the book
very enjoyable to read cover-to-cover. However, it makes the book rather
difficult to use as a reference. If the lack of apostrophe in the movie title
Two Weeks Notice gave you pause, then you’ll probably enjoy this book.