- Title: The Associated Press Stylebook Fully Revised and Updated
- Year Published: 2004 (The Associated Press)
- Year Purchased: 2004
- Source: Writer’s Digest Book Club
- About: I am not a journalist. When I write non-fiction (which is most of the time), it is always of the creative variety. I still appreciate good form, however. I believe every writer should have a fat arsenal of reference books, including one style guide. This is mine. I use it more than I anticipated, much like fractions. The part of my brain that appreciates orderliness considers this book a necessity, and well worth every penny. The creative part doesn’t give two figs. Fortunately, on most days they enjoy a mutually productive collaboration. Yay for cooperation-and the AP Stylebook.
- Motivation: I love reference books. I regularly sing their praises here; you’re probably already sick of my fan-girl like devotion to the genre.
- Times Read: Used only as a reference book.
- Random Excerpt/Page vii: “Today, the 21st-century Associated Press has become the essential global news network. And the AP Stylebook has become the essential tool for anyone who cares about good writing.”
- Happiness Scale: 7
A Year in Books/Day 162: The Associated Press Stylebook
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