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Hello fellow history lovers!

I'm an undergraduate student majoring in history and can't get enough of it! If I'm not writing essays or studying for finals, I'm reading about history on the side. I've always found that a fun way to brush up on the past is through historical fiction. Sure, it's sometimes an embellished, exaggerated form of viewing the past, but that's what's so fun about it! Ever since I was a little girl, I would consume book after book about ancient queens, ravishing plagues, courtly love, and epic battles.

In this blog, I'll be posting about what book I'm reading, a brief plot summary, my personal opinion on it, and perhaps a few fun facts about this historical context/characters the book is based on! Hopefully other history fanatics will find this helpful when searching for books to read.

Although my primary interests are in medieval and early modern Western Europe, I absolutely love reading about anything and intend to cover a wide range of areas and topics. I'm also a complete sucker for strong, powerful women and deadly plagues.

The first book I'll be reading is "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis, about a history student who travels back in time to Medieval England and finds herself in the midst of the Black Death.

Happy readings!