No Way Back, by Michael Crow

No Way Back by Michael Crow
Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-072583-4

pg 7
find the the sense of it
the the

pg 43
Westley's got me taped to the millimeter
typed? tapped?

pg 110
Only Nadya seems usually cheerful and sassy
unusually? her usual...self?

pg 150
mare's tales
tails

pg 190
I know something certain Allison does not
for certain?

pg 218
those dirty shamless sluts
shameless

pg 242
sinicized
is that a word?

pg 261
no worse, I guess, then some Rust Belt cities
than

pg 262
a neighborhood where out-of-towners are seldom seem
seen

Taking Lottie Home, by Terry Kay

Taking Lottie Home by Terry Kay
Harper Collins ISBN 0-688-17646-1

pg 118, and throughout
the Kentucky mountains
the area around Bowling Green is not by any stretch of the imagination mountainous.

pg 169
I kept telling him not till, but he wouldn't listen
not to

pg 243
They were the worse kind, he thought.
worst

Cross Country, by James Patterson

Cross Country by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company ISBN 978-0-316-01872-2

I found no mistakes in this book, though I got the distinct impression some writer less experienced than Patterson wrote it. Weird. Just small odd things like the narrator using lots of exclamation points. Did not "feel" like a Patterson book.

Now what?

Either I've gotten less observant lately, or I've hit a series of books with good editing.

I gave up on Cloudsplitter, couldn't get "into" it. My other half said the same thing about the book.

Next in my list, in no particular order:
(update June 4th, I've bolded the ones I've read)
Terry Kay: Taking Lottie Home
Michael Crow: No Way Back
John Grisham: The Associate
James Patterson: Cross Country
James Lee Burke: Swan Peak
John Sandford: Dead Watch
Best of the Oxford American
Best American Short Stories 2007
Barbara Kingsolver: Homeland and Other Stories
Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larrson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Vintage Books / Random House ISBN 978-0-307-47347-9

I found no mistakes in this book.

City of Thieves, by David Benioff

City of Thieves by David Benioff
Plume / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-452-29529-2

I found no mistakes in this book.

Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-170325-6

pg 210
Teddy and Chuck watched ...rock a jeep off its side. When they tried the ignition, it started on the fifth try, and they roared (away).

I think if you started any internal combustion engine that had laid on its side for more than a couple hours, you'd have a real danger of the engine seizing up (because the oil would drain out), if you could get it started at all.

The Lost, by J.D. Robb

The Lost by J.D. Robb
Berkley / Penguin ISBN 978-0-515-14718-6

pg 12
last line, "canteen's." Erroneous apostrophe.

pg 42
don't kill in a room with only one out
with only one way out

pg 259
like ...a shark biding its time until it could pounce.
Cats, dogs, lions, wolves, etc "pounce." Sharks don't.

11,000 Years Lost, by Peni R. Griffin

11,000 Years Lost by Peni R. Griffin
Amulet / Abrams / La Martiniere ISBN 0-8109-4822-2

I found no mistakes in this book.

Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut

Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 978-1-60751-143-4

I found no mistakes in this book.

Knit the Season, by Kate Jacobs

Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs
G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 978-0-399-15638-0

pg 89
First sentence on the page is a fragment. Should be more like, "...she hesitated, freshly aware..."

pg 134
last paragraph on the page does not have a transition from her being in the front room with them, to "flopped down on her bed." It's as if her bed is in the living room.

pg 197
marked the page that there was a mistake, but can't find it now.

Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Delta ISBN 0-385-33414-1

I found no mistakes in this book.

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos, by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-yos by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Sarabande ISBN 1-889330-37-X

pg 87
marked the page that I'd found a mistake, but now I can't identify it.