Here is an entry originally started July 9, 2009.  I guess it's time to get it done:

How interesting to read an entire book about punctuation.  I know that doesn't sound interesting but the book was interesting enough to read the whole thing.  Actually, it seemed more like a book of funny anecdotes with some punctuation rules at the end of the chapters.  Come to think of it, that is exactly what it was.

Of course, each anecdote has to do with punctuation in some way and the author does spend a page here and there for a diatribe on the horrid use of punctuation these days.  However, I found myself giggling a number of times while trying to remember if I have done anything so ridiculous with punctuation.  My only complaint about the book was that once or twice the author seems a little too fanatical about punctuation.

Here is the anecdote from the title as it is printed on the back of the book: 

     A panda walks into a cafe.  He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

     "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit.  The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

     "I'm a panda," he says, at the door.  "Look it up."

     The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds and explanation.

     "Panda.  Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China.  Eats, shoots and leaves."

If you like that one, read the book.  It's filled with more like it. (Excuse me while I check the punctuation in my writing...)