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A Reliable Wife is the national bestselling debut novel of Robert Goolrick. It was published in 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing. I enjoyed the novel and would have read it straight through if I had had the luxury. It was at once suspenseful and predictable. To any of you interested in a story of love, redemption and simple wickedness I would recommend this book.

The one thing I didn’t like, or more specifically, the three things I didn’t like, were…you guessed it! Typos! I found three of them upon the first read. Who knows what a more detailed look would reveal. I’ll list one of the three. It occurs on page 264 in the second paragraph:

It wasn’t enough to want all women; he wanted Catherine be all women to him.

Whether this is Goolrick’s blunder and it went uncorrected by the proofreader or someone else deleted the word “to” between “Catherine” and “be” we may never know. But this much I know is true, someone allowed this blunder to make it into print.

For those of you who have yet to read Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (not to be confused with Going Rouge by Nation editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed), not to mention all the alleged falsehoods stated in the book, there’s a typo on page 150 of this hardcover memoir.

Or maybe have the local Girl Scout troop volunteer to chop to them down.

However distracting two “tos” can be, this doubling is not to be blamed on Palin. The finger is to be pointed at the copyeditors and proofreaders at HarperCollins for letting this slip through.