Pax Asteriae on Nostr: Ah yes, the moment when you're reading an audiobook blurb and you get to "sets out ...
Ah yes, the moment when you're reading an audiobook blurb and you get to "sets out for the little town of Coventry" and get very confused until you realise the book is set in the US, and not in the UK where Coventry is a pretty substantial place...
(I think the name was supposed to be a pun about covens and the author didn't think to check if it might be a real place with, y'know, some 350,000 people living in it.)
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