previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Books by Lynne Truss (Author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves) Books by Lynne Truss Lynne Truss Average rating 3.85 162,701 ratings 11,519 reviews shelved 323,071 times Showing 30 distinct works. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Impassioned, informative and always amusing, this is an essential listen for anyone who loves language. Looking into the future, she wonders if ?emoticons? will put colons, commas and apostrophes on the endangered species list. Talking to writers and experts like Fay Weldon and David Crystal, she discovers the origins of the comma in Greek drama and Gregorian chant, considers the case for ?semicolonic irrigation? and asks how a writer?s choice of punctuation expresses his tone of voice.

She accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on a hunt for the ?greengrocer?s apostrophe?, enters the classroom to hear how children learn punctuation, and finds out whether anyone punctuates text messages. This is the radio series that started it all: five programmes in which Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation. The runaway success of Eats, Shoots and Leaves brought millions of grammar geeks out of the closet and made it cool to care about punctuation. The BBC Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The story also offers encouragement: No matter how boring you find your department's next seminar, at least you aren't clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea while being attacked by a sea leopard.Paperback. Much like grad school, Endurance is a tale of optimists embarking blithely on a mission of discovery for discovery's sake, then becoming hopelessly entrenched in a situation that overwhelms them.

When their ship becomes stuck in pack ice, they decide to camp until the spring thaw, only to watch the boat get crushed rather than released. In 1914, a party of 28 men led by Sir Ernest Shackleton (including Perce Blackborow, who should be celebrated as history's unluckiest stowaway) sails for Vahsel Bay, planning to make the first overland crossing of Antarctica. In Endurance, Alfred Lansing tells the true story of one such group. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic By Alfred Lansing, paperback 282 pages, Carroll & Graf, list price: $14.95ĭuring your multi-year slog toward an advanced degree, you'll need the reassurance that others have undertaken far riskier missions and somehow survived.

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