A review by vkaz
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck

4.0

I laughed out loud through parts of this fun, quirky book, not something I usually do. The idea behind the story is incredibly simple: take a road trip around the country correcting typos in public places. But Deck draws you into the story, with cliffhangers at nearly every chapter end. In the prefaces to each chapter he imagines himself a grammar superhero, fighting the dark powers of ignorance and defensiveness. He questions why he is doing this, and ends up on all kinds of interesting tangents about language, history and life in modern America. Lovers of language and anyone who has ever been outraged by an improperly placed apostrophe will enjoy this.