Vastly more nonfiction, although I did attempt (and finish!) a novel earlier this year for the first time in ages. Probably helped that it was historical fiction, but still.

Also, just because someone reads a lot about the 11th century doesn't mean they know anything about the Tudors or the modern royal family. I don't have the slightest clue about either!

Many historians of the medieval period have little to no interest in weaponry or "battlefield tactics"

I'm one of the people who have tried to rehabilitate him to an extent, but I'll concede that he was often his own worst enemy. He could be a real disaster artist.

Was Aethelred really Unraed? Find out next time

So that's how the vikings got around

In the US, some school districts stopped teaching phonics in the 90s and 2000s too. I got lucky that mine wasn't one of them, but there is a whole cohort of functionally illiterate young adults in the US -- like, they actually CAN'T read words that they haven't memorized before. It's wild.

There's a very similar plaque at Mt. Sunflower in Kansas, which is not a mountain and has no sunflowers. But I sure bet nothing happened there either.

AI has its uses, but when it takes the "human" out of the humanities, hell no.

At first I thought it might be a real quote attributed to the incorrect author, but googling this phrase with quotation marks brings up no one else. Sketchy. Maybe the comment about AI is on to something.

Page numbers!! That's practically the most essential thing, yet I have seen so many kindle-like platforms omit them.