Publishers Marketplace provides a handy PDF document outlining all 45 instances where Kaavya Viswanathan allegedly copied Megan McCafferty’s SLOPPY FIRSTS and SECOND HELPINGS. Here’s but a few more:
#41: I wanted to change the subject because I did not like the fact that Bridget of all people had just psychoanalyzed me with such accuracy.
McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts (Three Rivers, 2001), page 301I squirmed, uncomfortable at being so accurately psychoanalyzed, and by Sean, of all people.
Viswanathan, How Opal Mehta…Got a Life (Little Brown, 2006), page 171#43: “‘Omigod!'” shrieked Sara, taking a pink tube top emblazoned with a glittery Playboy bunny out of her shopping bag.”
McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts (Three Rivers, 2001), pg. 68“…buy me a pink tube top emblazoned with a glittery Playboy bunny.”
Viswanathan, How Opal Mehta…Got a Life (Little Brown, 2006), pg. 51
No wonder Viswanathan wasn’t terribly convincing on the Today Show this morning. (As Ron notes, turns out plagiarism doesn’t smell so “sweet and woodsy” [alleged infraction #19] when you get caught!)