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In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and witty paean…

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1 author picked Greek to Me as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I spend some time every year in Greece and love reading about that country. Plus, I am trying to learn Greek myself, so I found it really interesting to read the experiences of someone else who's been tackling that difficult language much longer than I have.

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