i’ve just finished the delightful and amusing Ella Minnow Pea. it is going to the top of the recommendation list.

it’s about a silly island of the coast of South Carolina called Nollop so named after Nevin Nollop the creator of that favorite sentence among font creators, “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

nollop is a society founded on the love of words and using them. but then all hell breaks loose when the tiles that make up the famous sentence start to fall off the giant cenotaph that honors nollop. the high council decides there is a reason for these tiles falling off and that it can only mean they must banish that letter from their vocabulary.

it’s just such a damn charming book. if you like reading or words or writing at all, you really should read Ella Minnow Pea.