Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Bookwatch, The, July, 2005

Miss Manners' Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Judith Martin

W.W. Norton

500--5th Ave., NY, NY 10110-0017

www.wwnorton.com

0393058743 $35.00 1-800-233-4830

Yes, there's a need for this newly updated Miss Manners' Guide To Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, as older editions fail to address such modern problems as how to handle a ringing cell phone in church and how to seek recompense for the dangers of mental lapse which cause a present lover to be called by a former lover's name. A lively question-and-answer format offers the familiar format of Miss Manners' own columns and allows her sense of gentle admonishment and fun to shine while surveying the latest etiquette challenges.