[A] winningly tender, funny reckoning with labor and language.--Megan O'Grady "Vogue"
[P]ure porn for word nerds.--Allan Fallow "Washington Post"
A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
Destined to become an instant classic...It's hard to imagine the reader who would not enjoy spending time with Norris.-- "Christian Science Monitor"
Funny and endearing.--Joanna Connors "Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.--Steve Weinberg "Houston Chronicle"
Mary Norris has an enthusiasm for the proper use of language that's contagious. Her memoir is so engaging, in fact, that it's easy to forget you're learning things.-- "People"
Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.--John McPhee "The New Yorker"
Ms. Norris, who has a dirty laugh that evokes late nights and Scotch, is...like the worldly aunt who pulls you aside at Thanksgiving and whispers that it is all right to occasionally flout the rules.--Sarah Lyall "New York Times"
This is as entertaining as grammar can be. Very very. Read it and savor it.--Garrison Keillor
Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.--Adam Gopnik
Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.--Marilyn Johnson
Smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating.--Ian Frazier