Book Typos

Reamde

2011-11-26T13:09:00.000-08:00

Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: William Morrow
Year: 2011
Edition: first edition hardback, first printing
ISBN: 978-0-06-197796-1
p. 216: There's a unnecessary period and a missing be.
Of course. it was was way more complicated that this made it sound; and it wasn't long before table and tree diagrams had to drawn up to keep it all straight ... .
p. 819: There are stray characters.
"I believe we have that adequately covered."1P
p. 886: There's an unnecessary comma.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was a combined army/air force facility, actually rather important to the global war on terror ... .

The Monstrumologist

2011-10-02T15:14:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Rick Yancey

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first edition hardback, third printing
ISBN: 978-1-4169-8448-1
p. 62: There are unnecessary quotation marks.
"We shouldn't stay, any of us! We'll come back when it's light to return her. "'Tis madness in the devil's own dark to—"
p. 251: A space is missing.
There was a great deal of"tidying up" to do after the doctor's frantic foraging from the previous day."

Home Cooking

2011-05-05T00:09:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Laurie Colwin

PUBLISHER: Vintage Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first Vintage Books edition, paperback, first printing
ISBN: 978-0-307-47441-4
p. 177: A space is missing.
But nevertheless, I was determined to stuff that creature with afancy mixture of ham, chicken, pistachio nuts, cream, cognac and so forth.

The Winter King

2011-03-14T20:05:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Bernard Cornwell
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press
YEAR: 1996
EDITION: first U.S. hardback edition, first printing
ISBN:0-312-14447-4
p. 38: An s is missing.
' ... Merlin know that the Gods love this place, and here the sacred mist is thick, but our task is to spread it.'

2011-01-14T21:49:00.000-08:00

EDITORS: Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki !
PUBLISHER: Bearstache Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first offset edition, first printing paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-9821671-2-0

"Cocaine and painkillers" by David Malki !
p. 301: A word is misspelled.
"They blamde it on the exchange rate," Jack said ...

Wild Cards I

2011-01-13T23:18:00.000-08:00

EDITOR: George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER: Tor
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first edition, first printing paperback
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2615-7

"Shell Games" by George R. R. Martin
p. 282: A Tack should be Tach.
"Tell me who to ask," Tack said.
p. 282: A Tack should be Tach.
Tack went into his mind.

"Strings" by Stephen Leigh
p. 408: A period is missing.
JEWS. COMMUNISTS YOU'RE ALL THOSE THINGS TO THIS CITY, THIS COUNTRY.

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

2011-01-11T23:07:00.000-08:00

EDITOR: Kate Bernheimer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first edition, first printing paperback
ISBN: 978-0-14-311784-1

"Bluebeard in Ireland" by John Updike
p. 405: A word is missing.
Or less, Jeaneanne were driving ...
p. 408: A loose should be lose.
"I'll loose my balance."

"Psyche's Dark Night" by Francesca Lia Block
p. 450: There's a stray period or missing capital.
... then he was awake and she was telling him he didn't love her enough. and then, that she didn't want to see him anymore.

The Road to Wellville

2011-01-09T22:58:00.001-08:00

AUTHOR: T. Coragessan Boyle
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
YEAR: 1994
EDITION: first edition, second printing paperback
ISBN: 0 14 01.6718 8
p. 255: Quotation marks are missing.
She's afflicted, poor woman," Bookbinder put in.

Pretty Monsters

2011-01-03T22:07:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Kelly Link
PUBLISHER: Viking
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first edition, first printing hardback
ISBN: 978-0-670-01090-5
p. 164: A months should be month.
He said that he'd be happy to examine her, if she liked, but she probably wouldn't go into labor for another months, at least, and we weren't going to be stuck in here that long.

I Am Number Four

2010-11-16T18:09:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Pittacus Lore
PUBLISHER: Harper
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first edition, first U.S. printing hardback
ISBN: 978-0-06-196955-3
p. 5: A bxlew should be blew.
It was warm, a soft wind bxlew in from off the water.

Jungle

2010-07-11T22:33:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Yossi Ghinsberg
PUBLISHER: Boomerang New Media
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first edition, first U.S. printing hardback
ISBN-10: 0-9771719-0-6
p. 145: Some words should not be in italics.
No matter, I thought.

Boneshaker

2010-07-11T22:21:00.001-07:00

AUTHOR: Cherie Priest
PUBLISHER: Tor
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first edition, fifth printing paperback
ISBN: 978-0-7653-1841-1
p. 131: A then should be than.
"It's better to have them and not need them, then need them and not have them."

Murder on the Orient Express

2010-04-04T22:43:00.001-07:00

AUTHOR: Agatha Christie
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
YEAR: 1983
EDITION: fourth printing, Agatha Christie Hardcover Collection
ISBN: 0-553-03000-0
p. 196: A space is missing.
" ... I understand,I tell you."

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

2009-12-05T13:50:00.001-08:00

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

2009-09-04T21:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-18T22:32:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-18T22:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-29T22:25:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-01T16:57:00.001-07:00

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

2009-05-31T07:24:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-18T08:15:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-28T21:46:00.000-07:00

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

2009-02-27T17:31:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-26T14:10:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-07T21:20:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-21T12:06:00.001-08:00

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.

H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction

2008-12-15T20:13:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: H.P. Lovecraft
PUBLISHER: Barnes and Noble
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-0793-9
p. 6: A he should be the.
... and the falling stones of he walls, the overgrown vegetation in the parks ...
p. 11: A where should be were.
These where now fixed upon me, piercing my soul with their hatred, and rooting me to the spot whereon I stood.
p. 12: A rend should be end.
At the farther rend of the apartment was an opening leading out into one of the many wild ravines of the dark hillside forest.
p. 23: A navel should be naval.
... our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of her crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as navel prisoners.
p. 26: A period is missing.
... for one of the creatures was shewn in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself I remarked, as I say, their grotesqueness and strange sizes ...
p. 26: A measures should be measured.
... the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measures sounds.
p. 39: A period should be inside a set of quotes, which should be double instead of single.
... shrieking fiendishly that he would 'jump high in the air and burn his way through anything that stopped him'.
p. 46: A write should be writhe.
... while in and out of deep treasure-vaults write poison serpents and scaly things without a name.
p. 51: A form should be from.
Sheehan, now recovering form his astonishment, advanced and laid a heavy hand on the old waif's shoulder.
p. 53: A not should be now.
It was so old, he added, that no one could not be expected to recognise it.
p. 57: A were should be was.
To seek to describe it were useless--for it was such that no description is possible.
p. 73: An of is missing.
In ordered terraces rose the green banks, adorned here and there with bowers vines and sweet blossoms ...
p. 80: A comma is unnecessary. A could should be cloud.
Again I called down, "Warren, are you there?," and in answer heard the thing which has brought this could over my mind.
p. 81: A fold should be folk.
... but there are other things which frighten the older and more curious fold who sometimes steal up to the house to peer in through the dusty panes. These folk say ...
p. 82: An ages should be aged.
... for ages sea-captains are notably stubborn and perverse.
p. 82: A to should be two.
Still, he was very old and very feeble, and there were to visitors.
p. 82: An experiences should be experienced.
Messers. Ricci and Silva were experiences in the art of making unwilling persons voluble ...
p. 83: A wee should be were.
... for his colleagues wee not there at all ...
p. 83: A mangles should be mangled.
... horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangles as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels ...
p. 83: A but should be But. A he should be He.
but in this idle village gossip, the Terrible Old Man took no interest at all. he was by nature reserved ...
p. 107: A he is unnecessary.
Oral accounts of the mysterious and secluded wife he had been numerous ...
p. 114: The word uncannily is divided.
When it grew dark they traveled more softly, till soon they were flying uncan nily as if in the air.
p. 124: An ever should be never.
In such houses have dwelt generations of strange people, whose like the world has ever seen.
p. 130: A space is missing.
I followed his glance,and beheld just above us on the loose plaster of the ancient ceiling a large irregular spot ...

New Moon

2008-12-02T20:01:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: 18th printing, first edition paperback
ISBN-10: 0-316-02496-1
p. 339: A the should be they (or possibly she).
... But I met Sam Uley and his fiancee, Emily. The seemed pretty nice to me.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

2008-08-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Michael Pollan
PUBLISHER: The Penguin Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-59420-082-3
p. 30: A has should be have.
The plant's unusual sexual arrangements, so amenable to human intervention, has allowed it to adapt ...
p. 54: A represents should be represent.
But though those subsidy checks go to the farmer (and represents nearly half of net farm income today), what the Treasury is really subsidizing are the buyers of all that cheap corn.
p. 86: A comma is missing.
... citric and lactic acid; glucose, fructose, and maltodextrin; ethanol (for alcoholic beverages as well as cars) sorbitol, mannitol, and xantham gum ...
p. 201: An of is missing.
Since it can be accumulated and traded, grain is a form wealth.
p. 210: A feeds should be feed.
The chicken feed not only feeds the broilers, but, transformed into chicken crap, feeds the grass that feeds the cows that, as I was about to see, feeds the pigs and the laying hens.
p. 258: A stick should be sticker.
"Eat your view!" is a bumper stick often seen in Europe these days ...
p. 269: A crill should be krill.
Conventional nutritional wisdom holds that salmon is automatically better for us than beef, but that judgment assumes the beef has been grain-fed and the salmon crill-fed ...
p. 319: A spec should be speck.
It is true that farms like this are but a spec on the monolith of modern animal agriculture ...
p. 323: A Was should be was.
"An animal's blood flowed like human blood, but its species was undying and each lion was Lion, each ox Was Ox."
p. 355: A thought should be though.
The bullet was too smashed up to easily identify its caliber, thought it occurred to me a forensics expert could probably determine whether it had really come from my rifle ...
p. 415: A subject and verb should be a possessive noun and object.
Though he declined to taste the boar, Isaac contributed to this book ... has been more precious than he can know.

Breaking Dawn

2008-08-28T18:17:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 978-0-316-06792-8
p. 179: A to is missing.
" ... How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us--"
p. 290: An a is missing.
I took deep breath, trying to calm myself.
p. 316: A blond should be blonde.
That blond vampire you hate so much--I totally get her perspective.
p. 319: A blond should be blonde.
I understand why your blond vampire is so cold --in the figurative sense.

EDITION: 12th printing, first edition hardback
p. 293: A to is missing.
I ignored her, going to sit on the floor next the sofa while she was still telling me what to do.

Among the Thugs

2008-08-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Bill Buford
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company
YEAR: 1992
EDITION: first printing, first American edition hardback
ISBN: 0-393-03381-3
p. 304: An as is missing.
Just I was wondering if it would be worth the risk of joining them, I looked back down at the police and saw that they were charging up the hill ...

Kitchen Confidential

2008-07-26T21:09:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
YEAR: 2000
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-58234-082-X
p. 73: The hyphen falls in the wrong place in a sentence break.
... these were the dar-
edevils, innovators and desperados.
p.115: A sentence starts with an unnecessary single quote.
'He was kind of charming, totally untrustworthy, conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
p. 137: A sentence is missing a semi-colon.
Bars close at 1 A.M. they start flashing the lights for last call at twelve-thirty.
p. 168: An I is missing.
In a subsequent meeting--and there would be many, as designing the new menu was a painstaking and tortuous affair--was informed that though I would be executive chef ...
p. 169: A though should be thought.
Good at the politics and shifting alliances of a big, essentially Italian business, good at the kind of stuff I though I'd always been good at.
p. 170: A failed should be fail.
He never said he'd do a thing for me and then failed to do it.
p. 261: An a is missing.
And if this isn't rich enough meal for you ...
p. 268: A pouring should be poring.
The bar was packed with monomaniacal wine aficionados, pouring over the 1,400-strong wine list like Talmudic scholars ...
p. 270: A close quote is missing.
'Beef bourguignon, he said right away.
p. 280: A bons most should be bon mots.
I was to cook a meal evocative of my earlier work of fiction for the benefit of the press, provide a few bons most at a press conference ...
p. 286: Possible stylistic decision. The word palates is repeated in an odd manner.
... as if any time now he'd find something too much for our barbarian palates and crude, unsophisticated palates.

The Road

2008-07-04T10:57:00.001-07:00

AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy
PUBLISHER: Vintage International
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9
p. 228: A bench should be beach.
A moment of panic before he saw him walking along the bench downshore with the pistol hanging in his hand, his head down.
p. 250: A space is missing between two sentences.
You have to stay near, he said.You have to be quick.

Eclipse

2008-06-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

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 ..."

World War Z

2008-06-03T19:41:00.001-07:00

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.

Stranger in a Strange Land

2008-04-12T22:07:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Robert A. Heinlein
PUBLISHER: Ace
YEAR: 1987
EDITION: 10th printing, third edition paperback
ISBN: 0-441-79034-8
p. 113: Sentence missing a quotation mark at the beginning.
I am glad," Smith answered soberly.
p. 126: Sentence has unnecessary quotation mark at the beginning.
"Duke grudged a grin. "I wouldn't take a chance on my ex-mother-in-law."
p. 309: Lowercase l should be an uppercase L at start of sentence.
let's get out of this dreary fog.
p. 337: There's an unnecessary comma.
The Nest is built to hold eighty-one--'three-filled,'--but Michael groks much waiting before we need a bigger nest ...
p. 395: A new paragraph is missing an indent.
"I grok you speak rightly, Jubal," Jill said slowly ...
p. 406: A brith should be birth.
"Take the holy brith scene here--the rear wall is beginning to look curved ... "
p. 427: A character name should be capitalized.
"This is NWNW New World Networks' mobile newshound on the spot while it's hot--your newscaster, happy Holliday. ..."
p. 427: An open quote is missing.
"What do you think of the girls here on Earth?" ... Gee!"

A Field Guide to High School

2008-03-30T17:30:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Marissa Walsh
PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-0-385-90427-8
p. 92: A freshmen should be freshman.
They will try to date freshmen girls.

Twilight

2008-03-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: fourth printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 0-316-01584-9
p. 142: A moats should be motes.
I ate breakfast cheerily, watching the dust moats stirring in the sunlight that streamed in the back window.
p. 466: A umidity should be humidity.
"It's always sunny, and the umidity really isn't that bad."

Maddigan's Fantasia

2008-03-22T14:10:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Margaret Mahy
PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-1812-7

p. 26: Extra space and wrong-facing quote mark.
"Listen you lot! " she was shouting.
p. 116: Extra space and wrong-facing quote mark.

"Look! Along here! Follow Timon. "

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

2008-01-19T12:47:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie
PUBLISHER: HarperPerennial
YEAR: 1994
ISBN: 0-06-097624-1
p. 137: An Im should be I'm.
"Im your horse in the night," Samuel sang that Gal Costa song. He sang, "I'm your horse in the night."

The Stone Light

2008-01-06T21:52:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Kai Meyer (translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford)
PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first U.S. edition hardback
ISBN: 978-0-689-87789-6
p. 183: A diffferent should be different.
"They all look completely diffferent," she said, fascinated.

The Zombie Survival Guide

2007-11-20T19:15:00.000-08:00

AUTHOR: Max Brooks
PUBLISHER: Three Rivers Press
YEAR: 2003
EDITION: 14th printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 1-4000-4962-8
p. 236: A camp sight should be campsite.
Park rangers investigating the reports discovered a gruesome scene a mile and a half from the abandoned camp sight.

Spoon River Anthology, an Annotated Edition

2007-11-02T20:06:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Edgar Lee Masters (edited by John E. Hallwas)
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
YEAR: 1992
EDITION: eighth printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-252-06363-3
p. 143: A widow should be window.
Stole in at her widow, or took her riding

Dragonflight

2007-10-28T18:17:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Anne McCaffrey
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
YEAR: 1979
EDITION: 12th printing, possible first edition paperback
ISBN: 0-345-28426-7
p. 37: An ot should be to.
p. 37: A slaming should be slamming.
"Sent ot Crom?" roared Fax, slaming the plate he was inspecting onto the table so forcefully that the rim bent under his hands.

The Tapestry, Book 1, The Hound of Rowan

2007-10-28T17:17:00.001-07:00

AUTHOR: Henry H. Neff
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-0-375-83894-1
p. 12: Sentence missing a period at the end.
Throughout his life he had fought with great difficulty to keep it walled within him The struggles caused headaches, including unbearable stretches that lasted for days.

13 Reasons Why

2007-10-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

AUTHOR: Jay Asher
PUBLISHER: Razorbill
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 1595141715
p. 202: Possible stylistic decision. Lowercase w should be an uppercase W at start of sentence.
when we really connected.
p. 205: A who's should be whose.
The man who's car killed a student from our school.