Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Apr 2015 · W. W. Norton & Company
3.9star
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New York Times Bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal
"Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal
"Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.
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3.9
9 reviews
Sebastian Iragui
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August 15, 2015
A lazily slapped-together hodgepodge of personal reminiscences and random tidbits of usage advice. In the first category go pretty much any recollection that pops into the author's mind (the mechanics of a milk truck she once drove) and in the next go some useless grammar advice (an incoherent lesson on the subjunctive) and potted linguistics history you could get from a quick Internet search. This chatty volume talks down to its readers, but seems surprisingly unqualified to illuminate them.
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Mike Goronsky
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May 16, 2016
...not quite what I expected... more anecdotal than educational...
About the author
Mary Norris is the author of Greek to Me and the New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, an account of her years in The New Yorker copy department. Originally from Cleveland, she lives in New York.
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