In honor of it being November, the infamous “National Novel Writing Month”, I am going to give away a FREE brand new copy of Eat, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss. The giveaway will run until Friday, November 6th 2009. The rules are VERY simple:
- 1 point for commenting on this blog entry (please include your email address)
- 1 point for each tweet. (Please @WellReadReviews so I can verify your tweet).
- 5 points for each blog entry, linking to this website (http://www.wellreadreviews.com)
For every point you earn, you will have that many chances to win Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. For example, if you comment on this blog entry, then blog and tweet about it – then you will have earned 7 chances to win. It’s that simple!
Synopsis (Taken from Amazon.com):
A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss’s now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species.
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
The winner will be contacted at the end of the giveaway.
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