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Greek To Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
“Mary Norris’ love for all things Greek is palpable and infectious. She is a charming, insightful guide through both ancient and modern glories, and I expect her lush descriptions of the Greek countryside to provoke a tourism stampede.”
“As a reader, I would follow the writer Mary Norris wherever she goes, and I found myself enthralled by this wondrous journey through Greek myths and language and art. Norris brings everything into the glimmering light—most of all the beauty of words.”
“Greek to Me, explores how everything that happens to us—whatever feels most achingly personal and individual—is encoded in myth. Poignant, antic, hilarious, Norris is the definition of wearing your learning lightly, and after a lifetime of Greek immersion, pouring beer libations and skinny-dipping in the waters of Aphrodite, her lessons slip down sweetly: This book is true ambrosia.”
“I fell in love with Mary Norris’s first book, and am now even more in love with this charming, ribald, highly informed, and always funny excursion through the language, culture, and oddities of Greece and the Greek language. An adventure tale for intellectuals—and also for the rest of us.”
“Mary Norris, our master grammarian, proves that knowing the rules sets you free. Here she writes about Greek language, culture, and mythology with an untrammeled grace that’s a delight to read and, almost incidentally, a demonstration of high-level literary skill. Greek to Me is a book to dive into—a page-turning and wonderful achievement.”
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Between You & Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
“For years I thought that, because Mary Norris and I are both from Cleveland, she shared her amazing knowledge of grammar only with me. Now I see she’s letting the whole world in on it. I guess that’s okay. Her book is so smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating, and she herself is so generous and great—what else could she do? Still, I wish she’d told me.”
“Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.”
“Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.”
“This is as entertaining as grammar can be. Very very. Read it and savor it.”
“A delightful mix of autobiography, New Yorker lore, and good language sense.”
“Mary Norris is the verbal diagnostician I would turn to for a first, second, or third opinion on just about anything.”
“A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between.”
“An educational, entertaining narrative… Unforgettable anecdotes… Countless laugh-out-loud passages… A funny book for any serious reader.”
“A delightful discourse on the most common grammar, punctuation, and usage challenges faced by writers of all stripes.... Norris writes with wit, sass, and smarts.”
“[A] down-to-earth memoir interwoven with idiosyncratic, often funny ruminations on the nuts and bolts of language.”
“Laugh-out-loud funny and wise and compelling from beginning to end.”
Steve Weinberg, Houston Chronicle
“It’s a three-fer: an entertaining memoir, a lighthearted but truly useful book on grammar and style, and a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of American’s great literary institutions.”
“A sharply sparkling grammar guide brimming with instructive and comedic anecdotes.”
“Pure porn for word nerds.”
“A charming, funny, fascinating-fact-filled book. If you judge a book by the number of times you have to stop and tell whoever is sitting next to you something about what you just read, then this book will rank highly.”
“Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off.”