The book was only interesting at the beginning. I was wow-ed at the beginning, thinking “this book is witty, quirky, and quite possibly my new favorite book!” It also reminded me a little of Austen’s Emma. What’s with the main character trying to solve everyone else’ problems and thinking she’s smar...
bookshelves: boo-scary, fradio, published-2014, radio-4, spring-2014, bedside, gothic Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from March 03 to 17, 2014 BABTDescription: By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of a cat with n...
[This book was kindly provided to me for the price of No Monies by the kind people at Random House UK/Cornerstone, facilitated in this act of goodness by the almighty NetGalley] I have one goal in life: the acquisition of 16 more cats who will happily eat my corpse in the 3 week gap between my acq...
For all you grammar geeks out there, this is a must read book. The writing style is quick and witty and very engaging. Ms. Truss clears up all sorts of punctuation issues, while also providing some interesting history on the origins of some of the marks we take for granted; a lot of my own punctua...
I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads!I love the idea of evil talking cats, but maybe this book wasn’t quite to my humour. I didn’t really feel the ‘funny’ in it. I liked the book, I found it interesting, but I don’t think I got as much out of it as I was wanting. I thoug...
Isn't it like Northanger Abbey in reverse? Come now, I mean, there we had an awfully romantic girl who read lots of novels and was looking for similar events in a romantic house, but had to face the reality.And here we have an awfully sensible girl who read novels and went to an emotionally charged ...
When first published in 1932 many were convinced that this was actually written by Evelyn Waugh using a pseudonym, that it couldn’t possibly have been written by a woman. After all, a woman couldn’t possibly write a witty piece of literature such as this, a parody of the rural novel that also took a...
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. "Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his ...
I don’t know why this book sold so well in America. It’s not like we have a shortage of grammarian authors—we have Grammar Girl! And it’s not like the author even professes to be a grammarian (she was kidding about not knowing what a subordinate clause was, right?). From reading this book, I believe...
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