Philippa Gregory's Books and My Love of English(European) History
Ever since I was a teen, I was a fan of history(I was/am an introvert geek. What do you expect?!). I find within the pages of history, the story of humanity itself repeating, evolving, and reflecting on the very nature of the human character. I wasn't really interested in the historical novels in those days. I mostly read the history of different countries from Wikipedia. Though I learned a lot, I later realized the pages of Wikipedia lacked a crucial thing that many stale pages of informative history books lack, and that is a sense of liveliness. I don't know whether the word 'liveliness' is the correct term to be used here. I think 'liveliness' means the feeling that the characters/events/phenomena, described in the historical documents/articles, are somehow 'alive' and able to influence one's emotion at the present time. This realization of the emotionlessness of raw history articles started to make me seek out good historical novels: novels whose
