Book Blunders

THE REVISIONISTS by Thomas Mullen

2012-08-21T07:32:00.002-07:00

Hardback
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
ISBN 0316176729
p. 403, next to last line: the word a needs to be removed:
"...that I was a just another misguided idealist, ...."

SILVER SPARROW by Tayari Jones

2012-08-09T15:06:00.001-07:00

Hardback
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN 978-1-56512-990-0
I enjoyed this book, but the many typos were distracting. Here are just a couple.
p. 145, 5th line, is should be it:
"...but here is was after noon...."
p. 151, 2nd line from the bottom, the word be (or some other word) is missing:
"...it would [be] good practice in meeting people...."

TINKERS by Paul Harding

2012-04-11T19:15:00.001-07:00

Hardback
Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN 9781934137192
p. 119, 5th line, of off should be off of:
"...knock plates of off shelves or blow a door open...."
p. 149, 6th line of the 2nd paragraph, father is misspelled:
"...saw my faher speak with the Indian...."

STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG by Kate Atkinson

2012-03-24T07:31:00.001-07:00

Hardcover
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN 0316066745
p. 314, about halfway down the page, you should be your:
'"OK, OK,' he said. 'Keep you hair on.'"

SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell

2012-03-07T07:38:00.001-08:00

Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 0307276686
p. 75, 1st sentence of 2nd paragraph, departure is misspelled:
"One Saturday, four or five days after the Chief's depature, ...."

A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Michael Cunningham

2012-02-05T14:59:00.000-08:00

Paperback
Picador
ISBN 0312202318
p. 293, 7th paragraph, chose should be choose:
"I said, 'Do you think that ... Bobby will chose you?'"

WHAT IS LEFT THE DAUGHTER BY Howard Norman

2011-12-27T07:46:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 0547521820
p. 64, 5th line, whose should be the contraction who's:
"... he doesn't want to upset his uncle, whose been so generous."

WHAT IS THE WHAT by Dave Eggers

2011-12-16T14:32:00.000-08:00

Hardback
McSweeney's
ISBN 1932416641
p. 90, last sentence of the 4th paragraph, than should be that:
"Later I would learn than he was cut into six parts...."
p. 173, middle of the 2nd paragraph, the word there is repeated:
"...but all of the Dinka on the bus were sure that there they would be safe there...."
p. 241, last sentence of the 3rd paragraph, the words those of are repeated:
"...and those of those of the Eleven were addressed."
P. 294, 6th line, known as or called should be removed:
"... he came to be known as called Commander Secret...."
p. 297, about halfway down the page, other or others should be removed, and busy needs to be removed:
"... because that boy busy was ostensibly cooking for the other eleven others."
p. 316, 9th line, that should be than:
"... it was startling and far more beautiful that I thought possible."
p. 467, 3rd paragraph, the word of should be a:
"... a facility designed for of third of that number."
"

MR. PEANUT by Adam Ross

2011-12-06T12:00:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf

ISBN 9780307270702
These are just a few examples of the many blunders in this book.
p. 15, about halfway down the page, the word you is missing:
"'I mean, how do [you] let yourself get like that?'"
p. 17, about halfway down, the word a is missing:
"On a small island there was [a] kiosk where people checked in... ."
p. 197, about 1/3 of the way down the page, should or could should be removed:
"Or how she should could push his pants to the floorboard... ."

THE MASTER by Colm Toibin

2011-11-14T08:27:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Scribner
ISBN 0743250400
p. 146, 9th line, persue should be peruse:
"'...where the curious may still persue them.'"
p. 264, 8th line, In should be If:
"In was in this city in the rival houses... ."

MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson

2011-10-24T08:32:00.000-07:00

Hardback
Random House
ISBN 1400068932
p. 102, 4th line from bottom, minute should be minutes:
"'...it's only a few minute away, near Little Puddleton.'"
p. 128, 2nd line, the word to is missing:
"...the Major tried [to] keep up a good speed... ."

HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford

2011-10-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

Hardback
Ballantine Books
ISBN 0345505336
p. 43, 3rd line from the bottom, lead should be led:
"He took the long way back, down a winding path that lead to the near-empty parking lot."

p. 103, 4th line from the top, a string a should be a string of:
"...their entrance ringing with a string a Buddhist bells that jangled from the front door."

THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY by Lily Tuck

2011-08-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Perennial
ISBN 0066209447
p. 222, 11th line from the botton, Venancio is misspelled as Vencancio:
"...as his sperm spilled onto Vencancio."

HOTEL DU LAC by Anita Brookner

2011-07-09T15:20:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Triad Grafton Books
ISBN 0586064664
p. 72, 14th line, asure should be assure:
"'Jennifer, I asure you, is entirely straightforward.'"

ONE DAY by David Nicholls

2011-06-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Vintage Books
ISBN 9780307474711
p. 28, 10th line from the bottom, seem should be seems or seemed:
"...but everyone seem to know... ."
p. 203, 7th line, the word that should be removed:
"'Yes. That's that what I meant.'"

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer

2011-05-21T15:24:00.001-07:00

p. 16, last paragraph, first sentence, the word to is missing:
"... he'd gone home to Konyar [to] say goodbye... ."

p. 63, last line, the word to is missing:
"... dance recital that was [to] take place... ."

p. 257, 6th line, attendance is misspelled:
"But his attendence upon the little girl... ."

p. 361, 5th line, at should be as:
"... increasingly popular at the weather grew hotter."

p. 540, 2nd paragraph, 2nd line, the word was is repeated:
"It was was folly in the French sense... ."

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan

2011-04-12T08:52:00.001-07:00

Hardback
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 0307592839
p. 174, 5th line from bottom, narow should be narrow:
"It was tiny: a narow bed, a desk, ... ."

PEARL by Darlene Cox

2011-04-08T07:57:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Outskirts Press, Inc.
ISBN 9781432766368
p. 91 (et al), 8th line from the bottom, his self should be himself:
"... he convinced his self...."
p. 349, last sentence, mislead should be misled:
"'... how could we have been so mislead by this monster?'"

THE KITCHEN HOUSE by Kathleen Grissom

2011-03-19T15:39:00.001-07:00

Paperback
Touchstone
ISBN 1439153663
p. 280, 3rd line from the bottom, chose should be choose:
"...yet why would he chose her over me?"

THE LIARS' CLUB by Mary Karr

2011-03-14T08:42:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Penguin Books
ISBN 0140179836
p. 183, 15th line from the top, the first occurrence of the word they should be that:
"... this despite the fact they they aren't half as smart as, say, a pig."

ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC by Douglas Coupland

2011-03-03T07:14:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Bloomsbury
ISBN 1582341656
p. 148, about halfway down the page, the word to is missing:
"'Wade's going [to] be dead and in hell,... .'"

ANGELOLOGY by Danielle Trussoni

2011-02-01T06:51:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Viking
ISBN 0670021474
p. 374, 6th line, the word at should be removed:
"'Come, we will catch him at during his lunch.'"
p. 390, 14th line, the word referring is misspelled:
"'At first I believed Innocenta was refering to drawings... .'"
p. 446, 8th line, pray should be prey:
"'Do not fall pray to the temptations you feel. ...'"

THE POSTMISTRESS by Sarah Blake

2011-01-12T08:32:00.000-08:00

Hardback
Amy Einhorn Books
ISBN 0399156194
p. 168, sixth line from the bottom, They're should be Their:
"They're story is alive because you're in the train car with them."

WORLD WITHOUT END by Ken Follett

2010-12-09T15:11:00.000-08:00

Paperback
New American Library
ISBN 0446556815
p. 508, 4th line from the bottom, Chris should be Caris:
"... if Chris had not taken Mattie Wise's potion."

THE CLOUD ATLAS by Liam Callanan

2010-10-08T10:53:00.000-07:00

Paperback
Dial Press
ISBN 0385336950
p. 161, end of 2nd paragraph, decades-only should be decades-old:
"My decades-only stories, secrets, and sins could wait."