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A review by chloefrizzle
Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
3.0
For your "this book about an American woman is written by a British man" bingo card:
- Complaining about the grid system roads
- All winter coats are called parkas
- Audiobook narrator puts Rs at the end of words "parka(r), idea(r)"
- Girl washes her bra because she's been wearing it a whole day
- Everyone has a gun and pulls it on visitors
- Every home and office you go into offers you a hot beverage (coffee brewed in a kettle on the burner)
- Washington DC is only referred to as "Washington"
- Character is "Christian" in that she complains when other people "swear and blaspheme" then regularly does it herself
- Guns are always called "pistol"
- Oklahoma is referred to as the Midwest
- Showing off acronyms for 10+ irrelevant government organizations
- "Tarpaulin"
- "Liquid Propane Tank"
- Complaining about the grid system roads
- All winter coats are called parkas
- Audiobook narrator puts Rs at the end of words "parka(r), idea(r)"
- Girl washes her bra because she's been wearing it a whole day
- Everyone has a gun and pulls it on visitors
- Every home and office you go into offers you a hot beverage (coffee brewed in a kettle on the burner)
- Washington DC is only referred to as "Washington"
- Character is "Christian" in that she complains when other people "swear and blaspheme" then regularly does it herself
- Guns are always called "pistol"
- Oklahoma is referred to as the Midwest
- Showing off acronyms for 10+ irrelevant government organizations
- "Tarpaulin"
- "Liquid Propane Tank"