Monday, December 28, 2009

LUSH LIFE by Richard Price


Hardback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 0374299250
p. 411, 3rd line from the bottom, one's should be ones:
"... the one's worth investigating running at about 10 percent...."

Monday, December 21, 2009

PEACE LIKE A RIVER by Leif Enger


Hardback
Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 087113795X
p. 40, 5th line, councils should be counsels:
"Though wisdom councils against yanking out all stops... ."

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO


Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 978-9-307-26975-1
p. 410, 11th line from the bottom, shook should be shaken;
"...really would have shook him up."

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery


Paperback
ISBN 978-1-933372-60-0
Europa Editions
p. 136, 1st paragraph, last sentence: the word of is missing:
"... for our will... makes use [of] all of its wiles to attain its ends."
p. 147, 4th line: the word might should occur only once:
"... anything that might remotely might evoke newly-acquired wealth... ."

Monday, October 12, 2009

THE SONGCATCHER by Sharyn McCrumb


Hardback
Dutton
ISBN 0525944885
p. 214, 2nd line, a period is missing:
"Nights would be cold soon[.]"
p. 221, 6th line, form should be from:
"'... word comes form the Greek for wind.'"

Friday, September 4, 2009

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy


Paperback
Harper Perennial
ISBN 0060977493
p. 45, 10th line from the top, a should be an:
[I have removed the italics from this quotation to avoid confusion.]
"As for a divorced daughter from a intercommunity love marriage... ."

Monday, August 24, 2009

THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN by A.S. Byatt


Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 0-394-47325-6
p. 223, 7th line from the top, with should be which:
"He was making another noise with Daniel slowly realised was an uncannily efficient imitation... ."

Monday, August 3, 2009

THE SUMMONS by John Grisham


Hardback
Doubleday
ISBN 0385503822
p. 30, paragraph starting with "They were in a booth," a should be an:
"... and ordered a club sandwich from a elderly waitress... ."

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

A PERSON OF INTEREST by Susan Choi


Hardback
Viking
ISBN 0670018465
p. 151, 1st sentence of 2nd paragraph, a word is missing:
"... put a few slices of meat between of bread."
p. 214, a little more than halfway down the page, too many nevers:
"... countless other things he never could never have named... ."

Friday, June 19, 2009

HARD EIGHT by Janet Evanovich


Hardback
St. Martin's Press
ISBN 0312265859
p. 66, near the bottom, you should be your:
"'If you change you mind, you can reach me at one of these numbers.'"
p. 91, near the bottom, mislead should be misled:
"'You were mislead by product promises.'"

Monday, June 1, 2009

SARAH'S KEY by Tatiana de Rosnay


Hardback
St. Martin's Press
ISBN 0312370830
p. 202, 9th line from bottom: fell should be tell or feel:
"I tried to smile, but I could fell it was a fake, cheerless one."

Thursday, May 28, 2009

THE ICE MAIDEN by Edna Buchanan


Hardback
HarperCollins
ISBN 0380973324
p. 209, largest paragraph: the word to is missing:
"Pick out a handgun and I'll teach you [to] use it."

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

RUN by Ann Patchett


Hardback
HarperCollins
ISBN 0061340634
p. 146, 5th line from the bottom: the word to is omitted:
"He wondered if she was unable [to] turn her head... ."

Monday, May 18, 2009

DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT by Alexandra Fuller


Paperback
Random House
p. 40, 1st line: we should be us:
"This was where Cecil John Rhodes had intended for we British to go."
p. 207, 6th line: bath should be bathe:
"Vanessa comes in with the tea. 'Go and bath, Bobo.'"

Monday, May 4, 2009

A LONG WAY FROM HOME by Tom Brokaw


Hardback
Random House
ISBN 0375507639
p. 217, last full paragraph, 1st sentence: those appears twice:
"..., but I lost one of those those jobs when I left... ."

Thursday, April 30, 2009

THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX by Maggie O'Farrell


Hardback
Harcourt, Inc.
ISBN 0151014116
p. 227, last sentence of the first full paragraph, him should be his:
"She has not doubt that him being there has cast... ."

Monday, April 27, 2009

THE CLEARING by Tim Gautreaux


Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 0375414746
p. 293, last sentence of first paragraph, he'd killed or died needs to be removed:
"... he stared at the spot where he'd killed Buzetti died and wondered... ."

Monday, April 13, 2009

THEM by Nathan McCall


Hardback
ATRIA Books
ISBN 1416549153
p. 115, last sentence, 2nd than should not be there:
"He would hate more than anything than to be forced to admit... ."

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Geraldine Brooks


Hardback
Viking
ISBN 978-0-670-01821-5
p. 268, mid-page, hyphen is spelled hypen:
"'I'm Clarissa Montague-Morgan.' Another Something-hypen-Something, ... ."
p. 326, mid-page, chose should be choose:
"... certain people will chose to believe it, ... ."

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates


Paperback
Vintage Books
ISBN 0307454622
p. 116, about 2/3 down the page, another thing should be 2 words:
"... anotherthing I figured out today... ."

Friday, March 13, 2009

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy


Hardback
Modern Library
ISBN 0679641041
p. 62, 10th line, the should be they:
"The ate pinole from a bag with their fingers and went on."

Friday, February 27, 2009

THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS by Andre Dubus III


Hardback
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 0393041654

p. 122, 2nd line, repointing should be repainting (I think):
"... repointing the cinder block wherever it needed it, .... ."

p. 199, the last sentence does not make sense:
"... to distract him the fact and that she was sitting here... ."

p. 204, in the first sentence, toom should be room:
"It was almost soothing being back in the dim glow of the VIP toom."

p. 454, 6th line, receding is misspelled:
"He closes his eyes, the sadness receeding... ."

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski


Hardback
HarperCollins
ISBN 978-0-06-137422-7

p. 140, 2nd sentence has an extra the:
"She arranged to meet at his office the next the morning... ."


p. 164, 6th line from the bottom, I'm should be I:
"I'm not. I'm haven't even thought about college."

p. 296, near the middle of the page, the word be is missing:
"... but that would [be] okay for a boy... ."

p. 303, 8th line from the bottom, the word it is missing:
"... but when you looked closer, you found [it] clean and neat."

Monday, February 9, 2009

THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar


Hardback
William Morrow
ISBN 0060791551
p. 83, 2nd paragraph, 1st sentence: Sera (the name of one of the 2 main characters) is misspelled as Sere:
"Sere smiled thinly and sat beside him on the couch."

Monday, January 26, 2009

THE GIVEN DAY by Dennis Lehane


Hardback
William Morrow
ISBN 978-0-688-16318-1
p. 626, about 1/3 from the top, Guy's should be Guys:
"'...Guy's are dropping..'"

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

THE GREAT STINK by Clare Clark


Paperback
Harcourt, Inc.
ISBN: 0156030888
p. 30, 4th line, appraise should be apprise:
"He begged his friends to appraise him of any suitable candidates. ..."
p. 87, 3rd line from bottom
The phrase "set with panel of stone" is missing the word a.

Friday, January 2, 2009

NOVELS, 1955-1962 : LOLITA, PNIN, PALE FIRE, LOLITA A SCREENPLAY by Vladimir Nabokov


Hardcover
Literary Classics of the United States
ISBN 1-883-01119-1
p. 523, almost half way down the page, and should be an:
"…, and old hole of a room…."

ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN' by Rick Bragg


Paperback
Vintage Books: A Division of Random House, Inc.
ISBN 0-679-44258-8
p. 304, 3rd paragraph from the bottom, the word her is missing:
"She was scared again, so very scared. I told [her] she looked good …."

ASYLUM by Patrick McGrath


Hardcover
Random House
ISBN: 0-679-45228-1
p. 139, about halfway down the page
The phrase "Had Edgar had seen it" doesn't make sense.

THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss


Hardcover
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 0-393-06034-9
p. 51, about halfway down, were should be where:
"…at the places were tectonic plates met…."

EMPIRE FALLS by Richard Russo


Hardcover
Knopf
ISBN 0-679-43247-7
pp. 350-352, Empire Mills should be Empire Falls. This may be a vestige of the book's original title.