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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Anyone mention this? #127301 04/12/2004 2:44 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA From this morning's TODAY show: British bestseller is finding fans in U.S. too. Read an excerpt of Lynne Truss' book, 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.' There’s a new British invasion coming to America and it’s got nothing to do with the Beatles. It’s the top-selling book in England. It just beat out the latest Harry Potter book to win the British “book of the year” award. It’s been on the best-seller list for 18 weeks. It’s outselling John Grisham and it’s all about punctuation. No one finds this enormous success more surprising than the author herself, Lynne Truss, whose book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” made its debut in this country at number one on Amazon.com. Truss discusses the book on “Today.” Read an excerpt here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4695914/ The cover of the book is shown and it's an hilarious take on punctuation. The author was on the TODAY show this morning and was delightful. Do any of our Brit chums know about this book? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Anyone mention this? #127302 04/12/2004 4:14 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 maahey addict maahey addict Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 wow, there was a thread on this not so far back, in Miscellany. Haven't got a hold of the book as yet, but it does sound very interesting, doesn't it. Here you go.. http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=120043 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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