I have always gravitated towards the nostalgic past. When I was a child I was certain that I had been born in the wrong century. When I think back to my early love of historical fiction and the books that inspired it, I have to acknowledge the problematic nature of many of those books.
I’m nodding along with you. I enjoyed all the books you mentioned. And I was in my early twenties when a history PhD student I knew told me that she studies history to understand rather than repeat. Having also grown up in a time and place I would have loved to escape, history had been “safe”, over and done with.
I’m nodding along with you. I enjoyed all the books you mentioned. And I was in my early twenties when a history PhD student I knew told me that she studies history to understand rather than repeat. Having also grown up in a time and place I would have loved to escape, history had been “safe”, over and done with.
I still feel that way sometimes Grace. ;)
I meant to write more, but it would be more echoing of your own words.