Friday, June 20, 2008

Eclipse

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 ..."

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

World War Z

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.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Stranger in a Strange Land

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!"

Sunday, March 30, 2008

A Field Guide to High School

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.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Twilight

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."

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Maddigan's Fantasia

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. "

Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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."