Here is the item:
Wendy red each Cliff's Notes title on the
rack, hoping to spot Moby-Dick. She finally
found a booklet stuffed among
the guides to Hamlet and
bought it without regret, for she could not stomach another minute
of the exhausting novel.
The first verb, red, is the problem. As you know, the sentence requires the simple past. Read (pronounced the same as red) is the correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present |
Simple Past |
Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| read | read(s) | read | read |