Friday, June 20, 2008

Eclipse

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 0-316-16020-2
p. 204: An East and South shouldn't be capitalized.
"The trail went East, then South, and disappeared on a side road. Had a car waiting."
p. 598: A worse should be worst.
"The worse part is knowing what would have been."
p. 599: A sentence is missing a period.
"If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic ..."

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

World War Z

AUTHOR: Max Brooks
PUBLISHER: Three Rivers Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2
p.34 A stike should be strike.
... and if there was even the slightest chance that dead bodies were being reanimated as ravenous killing machines, you dig and dig until you stike the absolute truth.
p. 228: An it's should be its.
It is the "magic hour" for energy-independent buildings like the Malpica, that time of the day when it's photovoltaic windows capture the setting sun with their almost imperceptible magenta hue.
p. 296: A last rights should be last rites.
I had come to the field hospital to give last rights to the infected.