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Dear Diary: Punctuation Can't Save the World (But It Did Save Grandma)
Paperback
Series: Dear Diary Style Files, Book 1
HumorGrammar & StyleWriting Instruction
ISBN13: 9781777295158
Publisher: Saoirse Temple
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Ridiculously Relatable Guide for Writers, Grammar Nerds, and Emotionally Unstable Sentences Everywhere
Are you overwhelmed by commas? Haunted by em dashes? Having an emotionally complicated relationship with ellipses? Same.
This isn't your average grammar guide. It's part style manual, part therapy session, and part chaos-driven love letter to the tiny marks that keep our writing from collapsing into incoherent word soup. Told in diary form from the perspective of a slightly frazzled writer (okay, very frazzled), this book tackles each punctuation mark like the character it truly is-from the emotionally repressed Period to the drama-drenched Em Dash to the Interrobang that demands to know what's going on?!
Whether you're a seasoned author, an anxious student, or someone who just wants to understand why a semicolon is judging you, this book is here to help. Or at least keep you laughing while you spiral.
Because punctuation can't fix you.
But it can absolutely make you feel like you're not alone in the sentence.
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