What Was She Thinking?

What Was She Thinking?

(This review first appeared in August 2007) Rating:  What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller. Henry Holt and Co (2003), 272 pages. Barbara Covett, the narrator of Heller’s novel, appears to be an opinionated but harmless, even kindly,...
Punctuation Matters

Punctuation Matters

This month I read two memoirs that I would be giving glowing reviews to, if only they had employed quotation marks.  Is anyone else fed up with the idea that quotation marks in dialogue are unnecessary? Basic rules of grammar and punctuation exist for a reason (to...