This quirky book in the tradition (?) of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves starts out wonderfully, with all sorts of fascinating trivia and small historical anecdotes; however, I felt that it didn't maintain the momentum well and that the author lapsed into a sort of self-satisfied smugness, veering more into the biographical and opinionated with increasingly fewer gems of information like the ones I found so charming at the outset.

I was also extremely distressed by her discussion of her trans sister in the pronouns section, where she purposefully misgenders her in the narrative in what I assume was a misguided attempt to take the reader along in her journey in learning how to afford her sister the basic respect she deserved. The entire story felt self-congratulatory, and had me grimacing right through the end. If you have any progressive or personal feelings about gender and pronouns, you'll get very little (aside, perhaps, from a nice, harsh triggering) out of this chapter and I'd encourage you to skip it.