When the quotation mark does succeed in sparking debate, it attracts mild tut-tutting rather than genuine outrage. Though there is transatlantic disagreement over whether to enclose speech in ‘single’ or “double” quotes, for instance, it comes nowhere near the level of hand-wringing inspired by the ...
TITLE: The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time AUTHOR: Keith Houston DATE PUBLISHED: 2016 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780393244793 ____________________________ From the blurb: "We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book,...
I have to start by saying this poor book was an innocent bystander to the just-completed 2017 BookLikes-opoly game. That is the only reason it took me 2.5 months to read it; it certainly wasn't due to any shortcomings on the part of the subject or writing itself. The Book is exactly what it says ...
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