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That time our book club split over a single footnote in a history book
Honestly, I brought a 1987 biography on the Erie Canal to our group last month and thought the footnotes were just extra. Then one member spent 10 minutes arguing that a footnote about canal worker wages proved the author was biased. Another person said we were overthinking a random source note. The whole debate lasted 45 minutes and we never even got to the main chapter. I learned that some people read footnotes like they're secret clues, and it changes how you pick books for the group. Has anyone else had a real fight over something that felt super minor in the text?
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the_rowan18d ago
Laugh at my own book club meltdown over a map that showed a river in the wrong spot, took us an hour and someone almost cried. Turns out the map was reprinted from an older edition, but by then we'd already called each other's reading skills into question. Now I stick to novels with zero footnotes, just so we can actually finish a chapter before someone starts a war over a comma.
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