Riiiight

At work, we're undergoing a huge moving and construction project, so there are men with large wheeled bookcases running around, filling them with books, and trucking them over to the new facility. It's a maze that changes each and every day as they line the carts up winding through the stacks.

and today, when they went to lunch...

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Currently reading...

The book I'm reading now is the story of the dig that found Richard III's body, written by THE BIGGEST SQUEEFUL RICHARD III FANGURRRL EVAR.* Who, alas, was the one that was in charge of the dig (as in the one that raised the money and commissioned everything, not the one who was actually digging), but despite her presence and all her FEEEELINGS about Richard III--I swear she's in love with him--the dig did manage to (a) find him and (b) ID him using SCIENCE.

It's primarily interesting for the storyof how you get a project like this started, funded, and finished, and all the problems therein. The not-that-great parts are the alternating chapters, which give a rundown of the history of Richard III. She says that she was trying to gain psychological insight about him, but when I--who knows next to nothing of this time period and the history--am reading and finding something to quirk my eyebrow at, that's saying quite a lot. The thing I'm talking about is her tendency, at various ambiguous moments in the history, where the truth of what happened isn't known, to run down the various possibilities and then, invariably, pick the one that is most flattering to Richard III and say that it's really the most likely thing to have happened. *telophase side-eyes page*

Note that I'm not actuall giving her name or the title of the book. I don't really think she'd turn up here in the comments, but I've had just enough authors turn up to contest what I've said about their books that I don't really want to risk it.

Anyway, I'd ask for recommendations for a good history of the time period except that I know I'd enver get around to reading it. At least not in the near future.

...She really does have a lot of FEEEELINGS for Richard III.

* And given the existence of the Richard III Society, that's saying quite a lot!