Picture this: a panda walking into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, then pulls out a gun, fires it into the air, and walks out. Baffling? Not until you realize that a misplaced comma can cause all the trouble. Lynne Truss's "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" will not only offer you chuckles but will also sharpen your eye for those pesky little marks that rule the clarity of our communication. Grammar enthusiasts and English language lovers will find a kindred spirit in Truss's passionate plea for punctuation preservation.

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Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book or people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, 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.

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