33. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

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You Might Hate This Book

Hannah Graves and Stephanie Pearson

48 episodes

9 months ago

Hi! We're co-hosts Hannah and Stephanie. We're both avid readers, but we have VERY different tastes. Each week one of us will recommend a book to the other - a book we loved that we think our co-host might hate. We’ll read the recommended book, then come back together to discuss it - and maybe fight about it. Was it as awful as we expected? Did we secretly love it? Did we throw it across the room? Join us each week as we argue about what makes a good book, and broaden our horizons. Maybe you'll find a book you love (or hate).

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33. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

You Might Hate This Book

54 minutes 2 seconds

2 years ago

33. Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss

This week, Hannah assigns Stephanie her first nonfiction read for the podcast: Lynne Truss’s 2003 “runaway bestseller” Eats, Shoots and Leaves. But will Stephanie simply want to run away from this very British book about punctuation?

What’s the difference between a panda who eats shoots and leaves and a panda who eats, shoots, and leaves? The first is holding bamboo while the second is holding a gun, of course! In her book that takes its name from this joke, Lynne Truss discusses the history, correct usage, and egregious misuse of our most common English punctuation with biting, British wit. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss commas, apostrophes, and the evolution of language (alongside no less than three Office references).

Resources:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/eats-shoots-leaves-a-humorous-approach-to-punctuation-1.4596010

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