"Readers seem to enjoy these memoirs - or at least they're buying them. So why should anyone care? I'm all for anyone reading anything they want, high or low, art or trash..."
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, has criticized semicolons, stating that many writers who overuse them can become an embarrassment to their families.