Before people jump down my neck, I am not the author. It's just the title of the essay written by someone else.

(Although I do agree with their argument . . .)

No worries. Figured you misread. And to your point, while he was born in a Dutch colony in South America, it became British shortly after.

Governor Douglas was not the farmer . . .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas_(governor)

Nᴉuǝ-ʇǝu-po¡

She doesn't, either, but she has respect for food in the barn.

<cue Mitch Hedberg>

True!

Obviously, this is a cat.

We are the 1%!

I don't remember the first time reading it, but I have a memory from middle school and credit it as introducing me to 'weird' fiction. So good!

Your title says it's a common misconception (a subjective statement) that his death report was corrected to say he died of a barbituary. (Which is not a word. You wanted to say barbiturate.)

I remember doing a project on barnacles sometime in middle school, and this was my 'fun fact,' to be included for extra credit. I had classmates including their project's animal penis size in their presentations afterwards.

Exactly what came to mind.

TIL about all this. Thanks.

>But much like the English tale of Gog and Magog, it's entertaining.

What's the English tale? Gog and Magog are from the Torah and other biblical texts.

Being a Jew from Maryland, I do take pride in my home state's early acceptance of religious tolerance, even if it just started with accepting different sects/denominations of Christianity (unlike the other Colonies and early States, which didn't accept Catholics and sometimes other Christian groups).

Plenty of sins in our history, but a good amount of progress, too.

>Lived in MD.

Born and raised.

>This is what is taught in state history lessons.

I went to public school grades 2-12 in a county with plenty of Confederate flags and the delusional beliefs to go with them, and I have never heard this. And especially being Jewish, I feel I would remember learning this.

Only you can answer this, but IMO four months is not enough time to differentiate between the first and second readings. Spend more time reading other books on your list, growing and changing as a person, and maybe in another year or two pick it back up.

My favorite books I re-read about once every two or three years. By now there's no more 'deep thinking' that happens, but they're comfort books for me and re-reading them keeps them fresh in my mind for when I'm asked for a recommendation. Sometimes I do get something different from them if I've had major life changes in the interim, like moving, starting a new job, something tragic, etc.

> Neither book has ended with much of cliff hanger or contained a huge conflict.

That's why. Chambers isn't writing a saga - she's giving cozy snapshots into a fictional world. There's minimal conflict and no real villains, and the focus is on the goal of the adventure, not the journey. They're short, sweet, and to the point. Like if Tolkein just skipped to the eagles, LoTR would be the length of a newspaper article.

> Additionally I believe writing such a short piece of work gives her the opportunity to make it as well written as possible, all quality no fluff.

100%

But everyone needs to hear my opinion wherein I agree with everything that's already been said! My opinion is fact!

And less than a century later, the Flying Ace came along. Doghouse and all.

I see rhinoceros!