The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

AUTHOR: Reif Larsen
PUBLISHER: The Penguin Press
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-1-59420-217-9
p. 5: An en dash should be a hyphen.
... whacking your way through the scrub brush above the river basin and then up into the Douglas fir–covered hills ...
p. 43: There's an extra space.
... where his paper-clipped chin crinkled up ...
p. 101: There's an extra space.
... I was suddenly faced with the four- foot height of the car's platform ...

The Hunger Games

AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: second printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 0-439-02348-3
p. 117: A say should be says.
"Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," say Haymitch.

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

AUTHOR: Kevin Wilson
PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-06-157902-8
p. 32: An of is unnecessarily italicized.
Their death was featured in a special hour-long episode of Luminous Mysteries of the Unexplained, but I didn't watch.
p. 37: An its should not have an apostrophe.
He burns a candle made of hog's fat to show how the body, after the initial explosion, burns it's own fat until only ashes remain, ashes that are more fine, more powdery, than cremated remains.
p. 43: A the should be a to.
Here is another way I see it; it is the way I'd like the think it happened, the way that makes sense ... .

Darkwood

AUTHOR: M. E. Breen
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first printing, first U.S. edition hardback
ISBN-10: 1-59990-259-1
p. 134: An apostrophe is missing.
"I never figured it out, but I think its a message from Mother and Father ... ."

The World Without Us

AUTHOR: Alan Weisman
PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-34729-1
p. 175: There's an unnecessary space.
"The Panama Canal," says Abdiel Perez, " is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal."

The Last Olympian

AUTHOR: Rick Riordan
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books for Children
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-1-4231-0147-5
p. 159: A hyphen is missing.
I don't know ... he proba
bly feels guilty about Luke.
p. 201: A slowing should be slowly.
Her story made me feel like I was back in the Styx, slowing dissolving.

Pinocchio

I typically reserve this blog for typos in books, but I couldn't resist listing these I found on the back of the limited issue of Walt Disney's Pinocchio.

A space is missing:
On a magical starlit night, a blue fairy brings Geppeto's beloved marionette Pinocchio tolife ...

An S should be an A:
Honored with two Academy Awards for Best Song ("When You Wish Upon S Star") ...

An arguable should be arguably:
... making it "arguable, the greatest animated feature of all time!"

The Battle of the Labyrinth

AUTHOR: Rick Riordan
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books for Children
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-1-4231-0146-8
p. 146: A you is missing.
" ... Now, Eurytion, if would be so kind, secure Nico."
p. 161: There's an unnecessary 's.
"I've tried," Nico's said miserably.

Wishful Drinking

AUTHOR: Carrie Fisher
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: third printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-0225-1
p. 44: There's an unnecessary comma.
Anyway, it worked because Charlie actually managed to marry twice, (probably someone with nursing ambitions), which just goes to show that there's a lid for every pot.
p. 45: An Abolene should be Albolene.
There was a certain hush, a certain smell of Abolene cream and White Shoulders perfume.
p. 84: There's an unnecessary comma.
Well, (I would answer), let's face it, George Lucas is a visionary, right?
p. 121: There's an unnecessary comma.
Without the substances, I had used to distort and mask my symptoms, it was now all too clear that I was a bona fide, wild-ride manic depressive.
p. 147: There's an unnecessary period.
... now she wants to be a comic. (which is kind of a natural progression if you think about it).

The Monsters of Templeton

AUTHOR: Lauren Groff
PUBLISHER: Voice
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: second printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-1-4013-2225-0
p. 133: A colon is missing.
At 341, I thought I heard the phone ring, and ran over to it, but the dial tone only beeped, vague and impersonal, in my ear.

Book Lust

AUTHOR: Nancy Pearl
PUBLISHER: Sasquatch Books
YEAR: 2003
EDITION: sixth printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 1-57061-381-8
p. 132: A parenthetical statement doesn't end with a parenthesis.
(in which the disappearance of his wife and cat sets Toru Okada on a search complicated by a bizarre group of people and events, all linked by the remembrance of the Soviet army massacre of Japanese troops on the Manchurian border in 1939.

The Lizard King

AUTHOR: Bryan Christy
PUBLISHER: Twelve
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-58095-3
p. 72: A damned should be dammed.
A spring flowed separately from the pond, so Chip and his father damned the water flowing from the spring, squeezing it into a series of little pools, into which Chip released a few trout.
p. 211: There's an unnecessary comma.
Mike's in, jail, Strictly is going downhill. Strictly's going out of business.

WhiteHouse.gov

Though I've limited this blog to book typos, I couldn't resist posting an error I recently found on the newly launched White House website.

whitehouse.gov/administration/eop: A the should be deleted.

To provide the President with the support the he or she needs to govern effectively, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.