Two books for today...
Book 1: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Date completed: March 7, 2011
What I remember:
A whole book about punctuation! Hilariously funny, short enough to read in one afternoon. This cleared up some distinctions between British and American comma usage, which previously I had thought was just people being confused. Which they often are anyway, probably because there are multiple standards.
Book 2: New York, by Edward Rutherfurd
Date completed: March 7, 2012
What I remember:
Quite a bit -- some of which I covered in a separate post a couple of weeks ago. I read this only a year ago, more recently than others I've covered for this project so far. Here I'll just add that I read it on a Kindle, which was both an advantage and disadvantage for a book of this size. It was nice not to lug around an 800-page tome, but frustrating when I wanted to revisit earlier passages; it is possible to search for a keyword or phrase if you know exactly what you're looking for, but I found this more laborious than flipping through pages by hand. (Unlike most of Rutherfurd's other books, New York did not have a family tree of characters listed at the beginning, so I was tracking it myself as I read.)
Book 1: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
Date completed: March 7, 2011
What I remember:
A whole book about punctuation! Hilariously funny, short enough to read in one afternoon. This cleared up some distinctions between British and American comma usage, which previously I had thought was just people being confused. Which they often are anyway, probably because there are multiple standards.
Book 2: New York, by Edward Rutherfurd
Date completed: March 7, 2012
What I remember:
Quite a bit -- some of which I covered in a separate post a couple of weeks ago. I read this only a year ago, more recently than others I've covered for this project so far. Here I'll just add that I read it on a Kindle, which was both an advantage and disadvantage for a book of this size. It was nice not to lug around an 800-page tome, but frustrating when I wanted to revisit earlier passages; it is possible to search for a keyword or phrase if you know exactly what you're looking for, but I found this more laborious than flipping through pages by hand. (Unlike most of Rutherfurd's other books, New York did not have a family tree of characters listed at the beginning, so I was tracking it myself as I read.)
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