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I just read the discussion of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and someone brought up the dog bringing back the dead girl's elbow. The poster wondered how a dog could bring back an elbow because it's really just a location, a space where two bones meet. It made me think of something I noticed in Jodi Picault's Nineteen Minutes. At one point, someone goes to the neighbor's house to borrow gasoline. The neighbor is a retired fireman. Where does he keep his gasoline? In the basement, of course. Doesn't that go against Fire Safety 101?
I'd be interested to know if any of you have discovered mistakes like this, examples of lazy research, in your reading of novels, YA books, even picture books.
I'd be interested to know if any of you have discovered mistakes like this, examples of lazy research, in your reading of novels, YA books, even picture books.