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Apr 27, 2020 · All of my life, historical fiction has been one of my favorite genres to read. I grew up in the age of American Girl, and devoured every character’s series. I loved Josefina in 1800s New Mexico and Kit growing up in the 1930s amidst the Great Depression. From there, I moved onto the Dear America series.
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Apr 24, 2017 · Among the many books we’ve read have been several historical novels: One Crazy Summer (set in 1968 Oakland), Esperanza Rising (Mexico and California during the Great Depression), Moon Over Manifest (1930s Kansas), Chains (Revolutionary War) among others. An unintended benefit of having read so much historical fiction with these kids is that ...
Apr 14, 2015 · Historical fiction allows us to “ understand the extremes of human behaviour.”. The novel can explore “various ways of facing, understanding and living with the horrific events in the past.”. Historical fiction helps us retain the past. Noble purposes indeed. Something to think about the next time you enjoy historical fiction.
Sep 14, 2016 · Cliché, perhaps, but historical fiction does ‘make history alive.’. Through narrative, details, dialogue, scene description, a reader feels more connected with the story then through a straight-up historic text. Makes you WANT to read the ‘real story.’. Upon my next bookstore outing, I will be picking up a copy of Houdini’s biography.
As Hilary Mantel said it best, “Historical fiction comes out of greed for experience. Violent curiosity drives us on, takes us far from our time, far from our shore, and often beyond our compass.”. My own historical novel recounts the true events of my mother’s early life in eastern Poland during the gathering storm of World War II.
May 16, 2022 · History, like our memories, gets rewritten with each retelling, gets reshaped by the consciousness of each generation. We bend and frame historical facts to justify wars, exploitation, revenge. Or to evoke patriotic resistance, heroism, and the will to survive. Writers and poets, too, have done it for centuries.
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Feb 3, 2022 · When you read a historical fiction book, you also consume an enormous amount of information on the subject you're reading about. Plus, whenever you read a novel, you have to remember tons of information about the story's plot and subplots, the characters and their relationships, and the environment in which the story takes place.
