My Favorite Type of Writing

I have been reading since before I can remember. When I was younger, around 7 or 8, I started reading the American Girl books, which went along with the dolls. I loved them and would sit for hours and just read through a whole series in a day. What attracted me most to them was the historical content. I always thought that it would be so much more fun to be living in their time, whether it was the Elizabethan Age like Samantha or during World War Two like Molly.

Since then, I have read any historical fiction that I can get my eyes on. I have more books on the Tudor Family (King Henry VIII) than any other era. And it is not just the historical concept of it. Philippa Gregory, who is my favorite historical fiction writer and author of most of the Tudor family books, has a way of making you feel like you are actually IN the court and the castle or any other situation that comes about. She describes each outfit in such detail that I can see it perfectly in my head. Because they are about a tumultuous time in England's history, you can feel the tenseness coming off the page. It is a world that I can lose myself into and when I am ready, to come out of and back into my own reality.