I’ve been shocked at how many times people were writing letters and either kept a drafted copy or a carbon copy of the letter they sent too. I love reading about the sources authors use and when I see that, I imagine how thrilled the author must have been. I’ve also read a lot of books that follow census records and like you said, newspapers and other public records.

I immediately started reading the Percy Jackson series. I’d had it forever and never opened it before but I knew younger fiction was going to be soothing.

I also was mid-reread of the American Girl book with a podcast I was listening to and I doubled down on that.

Then as things went on, I got obsessed with romance books. I did hit some Jenny Colgan here too.

Then as things really went on, I got obsessed with WWII resistance and homeland literature.

Then when I lost someone to Covid, I became obsessed with reading fiction and nonfiction about grief and death and pandemics.

And now I’m just really obsessed with escaping through reading.

I was obsessed with watching that show and really all of PBS too in 2020.