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Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss check out website: www.profilebooks.co.uk
If not them, then anyone else who wants enlightenment me over how to punctuate correctly. The reverse is also true when out to recommending a punctuation book when some writers really need to brush up on their writing skills. Oddly enough, this book also hit the UK best-seller list over Yuletide and is being spread around the world now. Author Lynn Truss hit the nail on the head in teaching punctuation. Make it funny, chuck in some history and show how to use it without being dry as textbooks that are available. A nice simple formula that avoids being a stodgy read. Although I'm not sure it's wise to start sentences with And, especially as doing it too many times consecutively sounds like a child groping to fill the gaps between sentences, this book should make you more aware of the right way to punctuate your work. Buy it. Learn from it and make all editors' lives easier by knowing how to punctuate correctly. Also beware of hungry pandas with guns. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - February 2004
BOOKS The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold The Separation by Christopher Priest First Meetings In The Enderverse by Orson Scott Card Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans The Dolphins Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Reach For Tomorrow by Arthur C Clarke The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF # 16 edited by Gardner Dozois 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss Trading In Danger by Elizabeth Moon Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Vol. 1 edited by Stanley Wiater The Gates To Witchworld by Andre Norton Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil by Robert Simpson The Killing Of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld Star Trek: The Original Series: Gemini by Mike W. Barr MUSIC COMPUTER GAMES Wallace and Gromit - Project Zoo RPGs & WARGAMES MAGAZINES On Spec: The Canadian Magazine
Of The Fantastic vol 15 no. 2 & 3
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Why should a book devoted to Zero Tolerance
Approach To Punctuation be reviewed in what is normally an SF/fantasy/horror
review column. 
I
saw its author, Lynn Truss, being interviewed on the BBC Breakfast
Show early December and figured if my reviewers see it then they're
likely to cite it as an example if they disagree with anything I
edit over them. 
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