Sunday, September 26, 2010

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU by Jonathan Tropper


Hardback
Dutton
ISBN 052595127X
p. 284, 7th line of the "11:45 pm" section, break should be brake:
"...balancing herself on the training break to prove her love."

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK by Melissa Fay Greene


Paperback
Da Capo Press
ISBN 0306815176
p. 55, last sentence of the 2nd paragraph, third and should not be there:
"The families sang songs and counted state tags, and the kids and fought over who got the window."
p. 159, 7th line from the bottom, caseloads is misspelled:
"... freed from their individual caseloeads... ."
p. 286, last line, tights should be rights:
"'A lot of people who came up through the civil tights movement... .'"

Thursday, September 9, 2010

A LITTLE YELLOW DOG by Walter Mosley


Hardback
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN 0393039242
p. 53, 13th line, hanger (as in coat hanger) is misspelled as hangar (as in airplane hangar):
"There was also about an eighteen-inch space on the hangar rod."
p. 192, 6th line, alva should be capitalized:
"John and alva sat patiently while I devoured her meal."
p. 291, 5th line, shools should be schools:
"'... what we took out [of] the shools, but that was it.'"
p. 298, 14th line, the word he is missing:
"And even if [he] did get caught, he didn't have anything on me."

Thursday, September 2, 2010

THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields


Paperback
Penguin Classics
ISBN 0143105507
p. 176, first line, the spelling Beverley is used, instead of Beverly, which is used everywhere else.