This post is less about any history I've learned, and more about history I'd like to learn. I just read this article about a book that once belonged to 'Bloody Mary', Queen Mary I: A Collection of Maps Owned by England’s First Queen Spent Centuries Overlooked in a Family Library. Now, the Rare Volume Is on Sale for $1.6 Million So this led me down a little rabbit hole, reading about her. Clearly a fascinating, controversial, and tragic figure... Can you recommend a book about Mary I? Fiction or non-fiction. If it's non-fiction, it needs to be beginner level rather than scholarly — readable, not too detailed, and not too long 😂 Have you learned any interesting historical tidbits recently?

Mine is: Christabel picks up the stick. It fits well in her hand. She is in the garden, waiting with the rest of the household for her father to return with her new mother. (The Whalebone Theatre by Julia Quinn) I like how it builds expectation and also gives the reader hints about Christabel’s character, social class, and her relationships.

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Let's get personal 😅 Are there any historical novels about where you live? Or where you're from? Anything that's had helped you see your home differently? I live near Washington, DC so there are quite a few books at least partially set here. One I've loved recently - and which changed my view of my home state of Maryland - is Booth by Karen Joy Fowler. It's a beautiful, weird, immersive look at the family of John Wilkes Booth and their childhood in ante bellum Maryland.