Keep up with all the latest book-related goodies on our blog and interact with authors in our Twitter chats. There are many surprises and amusing facts - such as the large variety of dashes, and how many of these ornate marks are due to scribes being lazy. It’s revealed (but never shown) that a character is having an affair; however, the other party wishes to end the clandestine relationship.

Prior to books, long form writing was published on scrolls -- which were not treated as one long page (endlessly "scrolling" as a word processing file on a computer) but were actually "paginated" with text written in columns at a right angle to the direction of the scroll (i. A ‘hot’ air sampling mission to sniff out the secrets from the last-ever nuclear test in the atmosphere, conducted by the Chinese. A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.

That’s because the second reason for the Curta’s prominence is that it was designed in a Nazi concentration camp. If you want to know the difference between the purpose of the many kinds of dashes and the hyphen, question how quotation marks arose, are curious about the manicule's past, want to learn the difference in uses for the Maltese cross versus the dagger, or wonder what's behind the pilcrow, the diple and the guillemet, this is only book needed. And when Jonah’s father, Shelby, goes over the top of Twilight Falls, all signs point to Stasia being the murderer. To my surprise, this engaging rabbit trail through history ended up being one of the best books I've read all year!

Partway through the chapter, I started to wonder where on earth it was all going, but as all the pieces came together, I realized what I treat I was in for.I instantly connected with the characters, despite this being an all-animals cast, and I found their human traits to be both relatable and realistic. Oh, I forgot to mention that I had my attention drawn to the narrow gutterstrip by my cousin who is a book binder.