Title: An Editor's Witty New Friend
Product review: I like Lynne Truss. I'd love to have a long lunch with her. Not because she's a grammar know-it-all but because she's intelligent and funny at the same time. This is apparent in her book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." As an editor, I've shared many of the same emotions as Truss concerning dropped commas, unnecessary apostrophes and mangled colons. She's a lady after my own heart. I gleaned a lot of useful history behind the rules and laughed heartily while doing it. Who knew there was so much to the apostrophe?I'm also thankful that Truss is mindful of different styles (AP being the one I adhere to) and the ways of we wacky Americans. She knows that grammar itself continues to change over the centuries.Truss is a beacon of hope for those who despair that any semblance of structure is fast evaporating from all written discourse. Just read the message boards on any Web site (full of "i luv ths book!" and the like) and you'll understand what I mean.
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