You have to laugh at this book. A terrible pun and yet a best-seller. I read it swiftly before Christmas, and I’d like to think that my punctuation is already improving as a result.
I know that I’m terrible at sticking dashes and brackets in all over the place, as I leap from one thought to another without structure. It’s probably a consequence of the way I write emails, and the fact that I barely ever read what I’ve written. That’s especially the case on this site, although when I post something on a message board somewhere, I’m a lot more fussy about re-reading my text. Maybe I should aspire to higher standards?