Friday, February 27, 2009

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.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

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.