Between You & Me Confessions of a Comma Queen [Paperback]

Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is&like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules.[P]ure porn for word nerds.Mary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language thats contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that its easy to forget youre learning things.A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between.[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language.Funny and endearing.Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.Smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating.Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.This is as entertaining as grammar can be.Destined to become an instant classic&Its hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris. Hilarious&This book charmed my socks off. Patricia OConner,