Mistakes in recently published fiction books

[Danascully2]

Has anyone else noticed poor proofreading in published books recently? I'm not talking about the finer details of colon vs semi colon etc but words in the wrong order, or in one case the same sentence twice in a paragraph (I'm confident it was an error rather than some sort of artistic choice). My 8 year old could have spotted them. I understand it's tricky to proofread a whole book but I presume it is somebody's job to do just that (editor?).
Or have mistakes always slipped through occasionally and it's just chance that I've had quite a few recently?

I listened to the BBC audio versions of some of the PG Wodehouse books.

God.

One of them has a rugby-related subplot. In the audio version they changed it to ‘soccer’.

In another there’s a bit with something hidden in a cupboard, but they talked about ‘closets’.

It all sounded completely wrong & spoiled the listening for me.

I was a child in the 1950s and my parents always had a bottle of wine with Sunday lunch and a glass of liqueur after (Lemon Hart Rum for my father and Cherry Heering for my mother). I was given a small amount of wine topped up with water. He died when I was 9, so I was a very young wine drinker! I suppose we were lower middle class?
However he spent quite a long time in France and Switzerland in his twenties, so he must have got into the habit then. He said that children there were commonly given watered down wine with meals. I didn't know any other families who had wine with meals unless it was Christmas.

Book are edited and proofread…

grammar checking software is not very good. Editors should not use it.

Even the best .....

'I sometimes wonder whether I am a scholar at all,' said Miss Lydgate. 'It's all quite clear in my head, you know, but I get muddled when I put it down on paper. How do you manage about your plots? All that time-table work with the alibis and so on must be terribly hard to bear in mind.'
'I'm always getting mixed up myself,' admitted Harriet. 'I've never yet succeeded in producing a plot without at least six major howlers. Fortunately, nine readers out of ten get mixed up too, so it doesn't matter. The tenth writes me a letter, and I promise to make the correction in the second edition, but I never do. After all, my books are only meant for fun; it's not like a work of scholarship.'

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Sir George laughed heartily.
'The fatal flaw, eh?' he remarked.
'That's just it,' said Mrs Oliver. 'There always is one. Sometimes one doesn't realise it until a book's actually in print. And then it's agony.' Her face reflected this emotion. She sighed. 'The curious thing is that most people never notice it. I say to myself, but of course the cook would have been bound to notice that two cutlets hadn't been eaten. But nobody else thinks of it at all.'

Love this!

Gaudy Night and hmmm Halloween Party?

Love DLS so much :)

One I read referenced vaping & air fryers but was set in 2010 when both were really not commonplace in uk.

hmmm Halloween Party?

Dead Man's Folly.

I love Mrs Oliver.

Gaudy Night is a book I can read over and over and still find something new.

Oh yes of course. I was kind of thinking of Dead Man's Folly - is that the one where the girl playing the fake murder victim is actually murdered?

Gaudy Night is a great book.

I was kind of thinking of Dead Man's Folly - is that the one where the girl playing the fake murder victim is actually murdered?.

Yes that's the one. I suppose it is similar to Hallowe'en Party - both have a schoolgirl victim and both have Poirot and Mrs Oliver.