Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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 ... ."