Currently Reading #2 (cont)

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It struck me when I was reading more of Noughts and Crosses that an apparently healthy fourteen-year-old girl who's drinking one glass of wine (admittedly according to her own report) at night before sleeping shouldn't be waking up with hangovers. Either she's drinking a lot more than she's admitting to (likely) or the author's writing from the experiences of adults whose livers can no longer cope (also possible).

It's always tempting to attribute something you trip over in a book to a mistake by the author. As a writer myself, I find this infuriating when it's done to me. As a reader, I do it all the time.

Eh.