14 April 2010

South of Broad, by Pat Conroy

South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Doubleday / Random House ISBN 978-0-385-41305-3

pg 149
"Leo found my sister and I handcuffed to chairs..."

my sister and me

pg 206
...as Murray helps us get our luggage inside the ornate entryway.

nitpicking, but "inside" seems the wrong word for the situation. Like the luggage is going into the walls, or something.

Homer's Odyssey, by Gwen Cooper

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Delacorte Press ISBN 978-1-61664-199-3

I found no mistakes in this book

I'm not here to critique, just to edit, but I have to say, this one will haunt me like Black Beauty has, for the rest of my life, I'm sure.

Rough Country, by John Sandford

Rough Country by John Sandford
G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-399-15598-7

I found no mistakes in this book

Scavenger, by David Morrell

Scavenger by David Morrell
Vanguard Press ISBN 978-1-59315-441-7

pg 144
"It's what caught my intention..."

attention

pg 204
Costs extra You do it through your home computer...

missing punctuation

So Brave, Young, and Handsome, by Leif Enger

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press / Grove/Atlantic ISBN 978-1-60751-199-1

pg 139
Perhaps there was still time to keep my own hazy outline from becoming permanent.

I think he means impermanent, permanently hazy, something else than how it reads

pg 192
Siringo didn't answer but less than an hour he reined up

in less than an hour; less than an hour later, etc

Mother Road, by Dorothy Garlock

Mother Road by Dorothy Garlock
Doubleday / Warner Books ISBN 0-7394-3547-7

I found no mistakes in this book

Bagombo Snuff Box, by Kurt Vonnegut

Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
Berkley Books ISBN 0-425-17446-8

I found no mistakes in this book

Sisters of the Raven, by Barbara Hambly

Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly
Aspect / Warner Books ISBN 0-446-61536-6

I found no mistakes in this book

Homeland, by R. A. Salvatore

Homeland R. A. Salvatore
Wizards of the Coast ISBN 978-0-7869-3953-4

pg 26
Every now and came a killing flash

now and then?

pg 121
"Just what the first house needs more clerics!"

needs a comma

An Innocent Client, by Scott Pratt

An Innocent Client Scott Pratt
Onyx / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-451-41265-2

pg 232
floosies

floozies

A Stained White Radiance, by James Lee Burke

A Stained White Radiance James Lee Burke
Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-380-72047-7

pg 10
neutrias

nutria is the singular and plural (no 'e', no 's')

pg 31
Tripod zigzagged back and forth on his chin

chain

pg 124
"It's really good." It was, too. Ham and onion and horseradish, one of my favorites."

there's either one too many or one too few quotation marks in the line

pg 181
neutria

nutria

pg 282
Gerardo Rivera

Geraldo

2009 Best American Short Stories, edited by Alice Sebold

The Best American Short Stories 2009 Alice Sebold, ed.; Heidi Pitlor, series ed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978-0-618-79225-2

pg 28
the plastic in box

inbox, or in-box

pg 133
"...but maybe he's thinking, Thanks for the hand but he's on top of it."

need some more quotation marks in there

Elsewhere, by William Peter Blatty

Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty
Cemetery Dance Publications ISBN 978-1-61523-582-7

pg 25
about a tenth of mile

left out another 'a'

The Broker, by John Grisham

The Broker by John Grisham
Doubleday / Random House ISBN 0-385-51045-4

I found no mistakes in this book

Road Dogs, by Elmore Leonard

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
William Morrow / Harper Collins ISBN 978-1-61523-826-2

pg 52
"There rich people and not rich people..."

They're, or there're, or they are or there are

pg 72
pg 79
that's what I get for waiting so long before entering these... now I can't find what I thought was wrong on these pages.

pg 129
should have quotation marks around the sentence at the bottom of the page --where he's thinking to himself-- to set it off from what he's not thinking.
"No, you don't go back, you go straight ahead."

pg 130
?

pg 185
making a Uey

not sure, but shouldn't that be U-ey?

pg 217
Actually it's been, four.

pause for effect? Comma doesn't belong.