Sunday 19 August 2007
Recommended Reading, Part 1
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Forget Eats, Shoots and Leaves; those of you looking for a more highbrow grammar-based paperback would do well to consider Bill Bryson's splendid Troublesome Words.
This really is excellent stuff. It covers some great topics (everything from the usage of 'who' and 'whom', to common literary misquotations), often in substantial depth, and is pithily entertaining throughout.
Highly recommended.
Labels: bill bryson, books, grammar, reading list
posted by Tom at 9:08 am
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3 Comments:
I LOVE grammar blogs. I'm not kidding or spamming you. I just posted on my blog (more about bbq and life) about Bill Bryson and was looking around to see if anyone else had mentioned him recently and here you are. Hope you'll visit me at sullicom.blogspot.com.
As for other grammar blogs, check out my colleague John McIntyre's "You Don't Say" blog at www.baltimoresun.com/youdontsay.
Thanks.
My favourite book on writing has to be The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
Americans grow up on it, which might explain why (say) The New York Times or The San Francisco Chronicle are better written than (say) The Guardian or The Independent.
I was hoping to see excerpts of your favourite passages. I'm a bit disappointed - unless you are going to drag it out to a multi-post serialisation. That would be neat.
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