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I recently finished The White Queen which is about the War of the Roses from the perspective of King Edward's wife Elizabeth.  It's apparently very historically accurate, in terms of events in her life, folding in the fact that her mother was accused of witchcraft, as was she, his two boys being imprisoned in the Tower of London, her surviving two stints in sanctuary...

It was a very different book from what I normally read, and rather slow for what I read, but also oddly fascinating.  Might read some more of this author's stuff.  I think her name is Phillipa Gregory...?

Now reading The Boys in the Boat about the crew team that won gold at the 1936 Berlin olympics.  So far it's interesting.  Talking about the life of one of crewmen growing up in the 20's and the Depression.

I really enjoy historical fiction, loosely historical fiction and even alternative history fiction.  Some favorites include Robert Graves' I Claudius and Claudius The God, the Neapolitan Quartet (four sequential novels) by Elena Ferrante, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell.  Oh, and some of the books about places by James Michener are a lot of fun too.   But I could hardly put Middlesex down once I started reading it.  I just today put holds on two nonfiction books and The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.  But if that novel doesn't hold my attention I'll request The White Queen.  Thanks for the recommendation.