I am listening to this as a book on CD. My computer has broken and so I have spent a huge amount of time driving around getting it fixed and generally acting like someone who lives in Atlanta. The answer--books on CD. I am really enjoying Lynn Truss. The book is on couldn't finish, though, because the CD was damaged and skipped a huge amount.

If you have someone who is cleverly writing about being a sort of boring, 30-something singleton with to much emphasis on cats in her life, and you're thinking, 'they just aren't British enough' than this is the book for you.

Truss is a funny woman.

It's not the book - it's me.

I'm not old nor British enough to appreciate this book. The parts and references I did understand made me laugh.

A great light read, very entertaining and at times laugh-out-loud funny, largely because it is so instantly relatable! This is the first of this author's books I have read after they were recommended to me, and it won't be the last.

An amusing collection of newspaper articles which made me laugh out loud a few times( and, sadly, see myself a little too clearly)

A series of amusing articles from someone who clearly knows their craft. If you like cats, you'll like this, but you'll probably find it fun even if you don't!

Audiobook.

I liked Eats Shoots and Leaves, and not just because I enjoy language, grammar, and punctuation. I liked the humor as well. So, I saw this dual audiobook at the library and decided to give it a go (it was put on one audiobook with Talk to the Hand, which I just reviewed).

This was a series of newspaper columns that the author wrote about being single. I am not sure when it was written, but I think it was in the early 90s (definitely before Princess Diana died, since she talks about her in the present tense).

Some of the articles were definitely funny, and I enjoyed them a lot. Others may have been funny, but I don't know enough about British 90s events and pop culture to have really appreciated them. So, on them I tuned out. I especially appreciated her unabashed love, and strange relationship with, her cats, her love of books, and sometimes odd relationships with other people.

Many of the articles seemed to have very little to do with single life, so I'm not sure why they were in a column about that - but eh, I don't care enough for it to really bother me.

So it was an entertaining enough thing to listen to while driving to work, but nothing to really write home about.

Amusing for the most part... sometimes goes off onto huge tangents that don't really make sense.

I gave it up. This was made up of previously written newspaper columns. Maybe amusing at the time, especially amidst the other news in a serious newspaper, but it didn't work for me in this format I am afraid. Did Bridget Jones come later? I think that cornered the market in amusing tales about single women.

does nothing for me - not going to finish it. off to the good-will.

Definitely "of its time" and incredibly 1990s middle class (like 1 billion 'The Archers' references. I've never listened to 'The Archers' but you can basically guess what she's getting at...) However I laughed out loud at nearly every article and had a great time reading it.