Dept. of Bad Reading

[kaffy_r]

Why Am I Finishing This Book?

It's on my Kindle, so I must have thought it was worth picking up. But ... if you're writing a character who you specifically place in 1728, and have them refer to a) men's top hats, and b) a guillotine, you haven't done the most basic, lazy Google research. Nor has your editor caught your lack of research.

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Comments

[strannik01]

It may be because, in Russia, we learn a lot more about the French Revolution than they do in United States, but I would have picked up on the guillotine thing right away *facepalm*

[kaffy_r]

Oh, so very much facepalm. The top hat was the first thing that caught my eye, since I knew that they were still wearing periwigs in 1728, and top hats didn't cut it with fashionable peruke wearers. I was still side-eyeing that when the guillotine comment was made by a character, and that did it. Mind you, it did finish the book. Because I am, if nothing else, a would-be completist.