I didn't really do much of anything today. I did finish reading my romance novel. It was pretty good, very funny at times and of course a bit cheesy, you can't have romance without cheese because you can't have cheese without wine because this metaphor is going nowhere. I did find it a little bit funny to see where the author just lost her mind a bit and was hoping to finish the book. Within the last twenty pages the author credited the wrong character with a quote. I sort of like it when these things happen, make me feel better about making stupid mistakes when I don't even have an editor that reads my stuff. I tend to get my books from the library, if I kept all the books I read I would live in a house made of books and they don't do a good job of protecting one from rain and snow, so when I find a mistake like that I like to do a favour for the next reader and use a pencil (I was taught to never write in pen in books) to cross out the incorrect name and write the correct one in the margin with an arrow pointing to it. Believe it or not I have done this more than once. Lucky me will get to do this twice in this book, because the previously mentioned offence was not the only one of its' kind. The book also contained a preview of the next book in the series and in those few pages once again the author used the wrong name. How did this sort of thing get by an editor twice? Heads surely will roll. Probably not but I am sure someone was yelled at once other readers before me found these mistakes and pointed them out to people in power. Oh the drama!
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