Books

Books : reviews

Cecilia Watson.
Semicolon: how a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life.
4th Estate. 2019

Some people love it. Some people hate it. Most people just ignore it, often because they can’t remember the rules on how to use it.

In this warm, funny, enlightening and thoroughly original book, Cecelia Watson takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the history of the semicolon and explores the remarkable power it can wield; so long as we stop worrying so much about using it correctly, and instead just learn to use it well.