The Grammarians is a delightful book about identical twin girls who love words. The book starts almost at their birth, when the girls talk in their cribs in their “secret language”. It progresses through their lives as they begin their passion for words, collecting words from a huge, old dictionary their father buys them, loving the “My Fair Lady” soundtrack, tormenting their uncle and cousin, moving out, and starting their careers. Their lives are joined, they have the same thoughts, and the author frequently asks […]
“Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!”
The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
