Bad Kitty

Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe young adult fiction This is NOT "Bad Kitty" by Nick Bruel. True Confessions time: I accidentally checked out this book and its sequel when I thought I was getting on hold for some books by Nick Bruel. Nick Bruel writes silly, illustrated cat books for elementary school readers. I accidentally read book 2 before this book (1). In this book we are introduced to ultra-hip Jasmine, teenage detective, and her crime solving friends. Jaz and family vacation in Las Vegas where she (literally) stumbles onto a mystery. Who is terrorizing a celebrity, her son, and their three legged cat? Can they trust the Russian and the bartender? Wacky fun ensues. This book is full of cultural references, contemporary language, and slang. If someone were to try to read this 50 years from now, they would have a hard time following all the references. Even someone reading it today may not be immersed enough in "teenspeak" to understand all the references. Good thing the author gives us some footnotes on many pages.

TV Guide Book of Lists

TV Guide Book of Lists
by
The Editors of TV Guide Magazine
Adult nonfiction

Don't buy this book. At first glance it is a harmless list of all kinds of television trivia, but on further examination the trivia is WRONG! I found a number of names of television characters listed wrong, grammatical errors, sentence fragments that didn't make sense, and photographs with no captions. They seemed to even get the different versions of Star Trek mixed up.
If these are the editors of TV Guide, then where are the proofreaders?