Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Road to Wellville

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.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Pretty Monsters

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.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

I Am Number Four

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.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Jungle

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

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."

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Murder on the Orient Express

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."

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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 fircovered 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 ...