Greek to Me

The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine dark sea.In her New York Times bestseller Between You Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker s celebrated copy department In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion all things Greek.Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English Filled with Norris s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine andthan a few Greek men Greek to Me is the Comma Queen s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own. Read Greek to Me – kino-fada.fr Greek to MeMary Norris s book will be one I read again and I m half convinced to learn Greek I have been a fan of the Greek Gods since my first contact with the D Aulaires Book of Greek Myths larger than I could carry book came out in 1962 I memorized every story, every page, every drawing, and have been lost in love with all things Greek since The first time I saw the book cover running through the Goodreads updates, I hooted for joy Found it in Libby and check it out had to wait Greek to MeMary Norris s book will be one I read again and I m half convinced to learn Greek I have been a fan of the Greek Gods since my first contact with the D Aulaires Book of Greek Myths larger than I could carry book came out in 1962 I memorized every story, every page, every drawing, and have been lost in love with all things Greek since The first time I saw the book cover running through the Goodreads updates, I hooted for joy Found it in Libby and check it out had to wait 12 weeks for a kindle version.and then ended out buying the audio from audible truly a festival of formats, but so worth the wait My other love is words, where they come from, how and who shaped them into the words that I ve been taught I thought that was w...Mary Norris, whose last book, The Comma Queen, has done it again this time by making learning to speak Greek seem easy and traveling the not so beaten paths of Greece While I enjoy Mary s writing style, I envy her adventurous spirit of travel and her joy of life long learning.Mary gives us a fewglimpses of her childhood back in Ohio and her wonderous work environment at the revered, The New Yorker Even though we re the same age, I still want to be Mary when I grow up If you had t Mary Norris, whose last book, The Comma Queen, has done it again this time by making learning to speak Greek seem easy and traveling the not so beaten paths of Greece While I enjoy Mary s writing style, I envy her adventurous spirit of travel and her joy of life long learning.Mary gives us a fewglimpses of her childhood back in Ohio and her wonderous work environment at the revered, The New Yorker Even though we re the same age, I still want to be Mary when I grow up If you had the pleasure of reading her last book in 2015, you might remember that Mary left the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio in 1970 to attend Douglas College, then the women s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers didn t become coed until 1974 graduating in 1974 She then earned her Masters in English from the University of Vermont two years later In 1978 she was hired b...Why do we lean on dead languages for new things Perhaps expressing these things in the language that is oldest, in words that we have in common with many other languages, gives us a touchstone Greek To Me adventures of the Comma Queen is a memoir by self admitted philhellene and best selling American author, Mary Norris She has been on the staff of The New Yorker for some 35 years, and a Page OK er for twenty of those Norris has been referred to by some as a prose goddess, or a comma queen Why do we lean on dead languages for new things Perhaps expressing these things in the language that is oldest, in words that we have in common with many other languages, gives us a touchstone Greek To Me adventures of the Comma Queen is a memoir by self admitted philhellene and best selling American author, Mary Norris She has been on the staff of The New Yorker for some 35 years, and a Page OK er for twenty of those Norris has been referred to by some as a prose goddess, or a comma queen She begins by declaring her fascination with all things Greek, and explaining how and why she came to study ancient Greek under the aegis of The New Yorker She explains how the Greek alphabet derives from the Phoenician, and many other alphabets from Greek why Athena is a good model for a copy editor and she declares her respect for those authors of definitive works on Greek and Gr...As an early reviewer I m finding it difficult to be objective as naturally people will span the range of opinions from loving it to finding it boring I think I had different expectations than the way the book was described so part of my low opinion is based on what I thought I was going to read Having never read any of Mary s books before, I don t know if this style of writing is common in other books but found the sentences long winded and clunky So many thoughts packed into single sentences As an early reviewer I m finding it difficult to be objective as naturally people will span the range of opinions from loving it to finding it boring I think I had different expectations than the way the book was described so part of my low opinion is based on what I thought I was going to read Having never read any of Mary s books before, I don t know if this style of writing is common in other books but found the sentences long winded and clunky So many thoughts packed into single sentences, she truly is a comma queen, dragging words down and around Is she showing off her vocabulary Does she rule at Scrabble with 5 le...Mary Norris had a great job copywriter for the New Yorker She deliberately worked the night shift to leave her days free to pursue her hobby, which was Greece and all things Greek, ancient and modern By living in New York, she was able to take advanced graduate courses at such institutions at Columbia, learning how to speak the language and read classics and acting in several plays in the original Of course, she s travelled to Greece and familiarized herself with using the ferry systems be Mary Norris had a great job copywriter for the New Yorker She deliberately worked the night shift to leave her days free to pursue her hobby, which was Greece and all things Greek, ancient and modern By living in New York, she was able to take advanced graduate courses at such institutions at Columbia, learning ...This book, rich in the history of language and the alphabettakes us on a journey with the written and spoken word It s the alpha to omega of everything, really Herald SunI wanted this book to figure out whether it wanted to be a book about Greek language and culture and its influence on ours or a memoir about the author s love of all things Greek Instead, it tried to be both, but wasn t long enough to do either aspect justice.With a love of words and travel, I was really looking forward to this one, but just couldn t finish it It was all over the board memoir, etymology and word lover s delight, travelogue, history, mythology About 15% into it, I couldn t wait for it to be over, and by 30%, I gave up Parts of it were interesting, but it was just a little too disjointed I thought it was going to make a great gift for my Greek boyfriend and his sisters, who all speak some Greek and have been to Greece, but I d b With a love of words and travel, I was really looking forward to this one, but just couldn t finish it It was all over the board memoir, etymology and word lover s delight, travelogue, history, mythology About 15% into it, I couldn t wait for it to be over, and by 30%, I gave up Parts of it were interesting, but it was just a little too disjointed I thought it was going to make a great gift for my ...I was able to read the galley of this on NetGalley.3.5 really A memoir about fun times had sneaking around the office practicing Greek and gallavanting around the country Definitely what it says on the cover a book about what Greek means to the author She recounts fun times with tutors and publishers and how she learned the language as an adult copyeditor with money from her job She got away with a lot that would almost certainly not be allowed this day in age A fun read but didn t fully h I was able to read the galley of this on NetGalley.3.5 really A memoir about fun times had sneaking around the office practicing Greek and gallavanting around the country Definitely what it says on the cover a book about what Greek means to the author She recounts fun times with tutors and publishers and how she learned the language as an adult copyeditor with money from her job She got away w...This is a charming account of Norris s love affair with all things Greek It is part travel, part memoir, with a little information about mythology thrown in The personalty reflected in these pages is an attractive one that s learned to roll with the punches that life and travel in foreign lands hands out An indefatigable and game for anything traveler originally Cleveland, Norris writes about her adventures on the road in a friendly chatty style, relating her adventures in a deceptively simp This is a charming account of Norris s love affair with all things Greek It is part travel, part memoir, with a little information about mythology thrown in The personalty reflected in these pages is an attractive one that s learned to roll with the punches that life and travel in foreign lands hands out An indefatigable and game for anything traveler originally Cleveland, Norris writes about her adventures on the road in a f...this is a breezy, easy, fun book especially if you like language and words It dragged only slightly in a few parts but the author moves quickly through her adventures Aside from the fun of all the Greek words I was especially taken with her fearless travels a women on her own I would not only be exhausted with the constant unwanted attention by the men and it didn t matter where she was a restaurant, a boat, driving, etc but eventually I would get royally pissed off She kept her sens this is a breezy, easy, fun book especially if you like language and words It dragged only slightly in a few parts but the author moves quickly through her adventures Aside from the fun of all the Greek words I was especially taken with her fearless travels a women on her own I would not only be exhausted with the constant unwanted attention by the men and it didn t matter w...Delightful piece of fluff concerning the author s love affair with all things Greek language, buth ancient and modern etymology and history of same and her adventures in Greece and its islands Fast paced and full of information tidbits.DelightfulI received a free advanced reader copy of this book through Goodreads giveaways and here is my honest review.First, let me say that I didn t notice any typos in this early copy Somehow, I m not surprised since Ms Norris no doubt proofed it before this printing I enjoyed the book very much The best thing about it is Mary Norris s abundant enthusiasm combined with a great deal of wit I found myself eagerly reading about things I didn t think I had any interest in like the Greek language I d I received a free advanced reader copy of this book through Goodreads giveaways and here is my honest review.First, let me say that I didn t notice any typos in this early copy Somehow, I m not surprised since Ms Norris no doubt proofed it before this printing I enjoyed the book very much The best thing about it is Mary Norris s abundant enthusiasm combined with a great deal of wit I found myself eagerly reading about things I didn t think I had any interest in like the Greek language I did skim so...I won an ARC of this book from Goodreads Wasn t exactly sure what to expect I had hoped to really like it because I like words and I m kind of a grammar Nazi The book just didn t grab me It went back and forth between long discussions about the Greek origin of words to Mary Norris s family dynamics, jobs and travel to Greece If there had been a littlecontinuity and direction, I might have liked it better, but it seemed like she couldn t really decide what this book was about It felt I won an ARC of this book from Goodreads Wasn t exactly sure what to expect I had hoped to really like it because I like words and I m kind of a grammar Nazi The book just didn t grab me It went back and forth between long discussions about the Greek origin of words to Mary Norris s family dynamics, jobs and travel to Greece If there had been a littlecontinuity an...

• English
• 03 October 2018
Mary Norris
• Hardcover
• 240 pages
• 1324001275
• Mary Norris
• Greek to Me