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 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 ...

Friday, September 4, 2009

The Hunger Games

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.

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 ... .