The discovery is a fun part of this project. This is a book I've had on my shelves for ... well, obviously it couldn't be for much more than a decade, but probably quite some time. And I'd never really looked at the contents closely. When I bought it, I must have looked at it long enough to say, "Mine!" but then it went onto the shelf. And yesterday evening when I was thinking, "Hmm, need something EARLY for balance, I picked it out by chance.

One of these days you'll have to come visit me and then you'll understand just how easy it is to lose track of what books I own.

I most often think about that historic discontinuity thing from the other side: pretty much nobody writing historic straight romance worries about the massive differences in how historic and modern cultures treated desire, romance, eroticism, and life expectations. And yet the same approach to queer characters in history is often met with "it's not historically accurate." While I prefer my historic fiction to be fairly well-grounded in history, I don't see that it should be required to be MORE accurate than straight fiction.