It’s Friday! Reading thread 4/9

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: How much do you notice typos and editing errors in books? How much do they bother you if you do notice them?

[meowmaps]

I read The Echo Wife. I enjoyed it! I just started Outlawed. It's holding my attention so far.

QOTW: I definitely notice it, particularly in ebooks. It bothers me, especially if it's egregious and there are multiple errors.

[travella]

I finished The Searcher by Tana French, 3*. I'm almost finished with One by One by Ruth Ware. I look forward to being done with the book because I'm not really enjoying it.

QOTW: I usually don't pay that close of attention so I don't find errors often.
However, it seems like I've found more errors recently.

[charlatti]

I am having an excellent reading week — finished What Could Be Saved, which I would definitely recommend, and now reading The Arsonists’ City, which is gorgeously written and compelling.

QOTW: They really bother me. I have had to stop reading books with too many mistakes, though usually it’s not much of a loss. It’s just lazy — that’s why there are editors and proofreaders!

[Deleted]

I finished Culture Warlords, about White Supremacy. It was hard to read, but good.

I read The One Minute Manager. Hokey and dated, but some good advice.

Currently reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I read it years ago, and it has aged well. Timeless.

Next up-How to Win Friends and Influence People. Another oldie but goodie.

(I just got a huge promotion at work, and these are the 2 books my boss recommended.)

QOTW-I am a real hard ass about this. I notice. I judge. It bugs.

[minzy]

I’ve started Braiding Sweetgrass but haven’t gotten very far yet.

QOTW: Typos drive me batty, but I probably wouldn’t email the author or anything.

I have been doing a large (not terribly consequential) project with a friend and she drafts emails from both of us and then I clean up the content and edit out her typos. We both have strengths so this has generally been working very well. The times she sends stuff before I see it and I spot the typos, with my name on it, I cringe so hard. 😬🤣 It’s been a fun lesson in making my Type A chill a little, haha.

[tacokick]

The Push by Claire McGowan

Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris (this might be the answer to longest book read! It was 688 pages yet very little insight into his personal life)


Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington (this was really a memoir disguised as a book about burnout)

The One by John Marrs (great idea but not well executed, the show was very different but had the same issue)

Know What You Did by Claire McGowan (her plots are a little wacky but she does bother to actually flesh out the people and their backstories)

QOTW:

I notice them but don’t really care unless they are really constant. I read a fair amount of ARCs so it is par for the course

[AJL]

Read this week:

Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club #2) by Lyssa Kay Adams—4*
Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Book Club #3) by Lyssa Kay Adams—3*
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys—3.5*
Beach Read by Emily Henry—3.5*
Float Plan by Trish Doller—4.5*


QOTW: I notice them a lot but I think that's because I worked for so long in editing. I notice them more in ebooks than in hard copy books, though. I think that's kind of strange, but it is what it is. The typos bother me especially if it's in a book from a well known author. I just assume they have more dedicated editors and publishers than someone who is self-published. *shrug*

[aurora]

I'm reading Anne Mccaffrey's The Skies of Pern. I had started a re-read of the whole series maybe 2 years ago; I hadn't read them in decades. But, I don't think I had ever read this one. There are definitely parts of the books that are cringe-worthy now that I don't remember being aware of in middle/high school.

I'm listening to The Exiles for book club.

QOTW: yes, definitely, and for this reason I haven't read a self-published book in years after a bad experience with a Kindle recommendation. I can't get beyond the typos to enjoy the book.

[Nonny]

I finished The Echo Wife and The Guest List, and now I'm about 60% of the way through Hench.

QOTW: I have a minor in technical communications, and spent a lot of time looking for weird text issues in the UI of my job, so I definitely notice. I once read a book where the author repeated several paragraphs, verbatim, in two different chapters (this wasn't a printing error either, it flowed, it was just incredibly poor editing; it was also a shit book, but that's a different topic, LOL!).