Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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CHANNELS MENIONED:
Elle: youtube.com/@ellethinks
Eva: youtube.com/@evastrange

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READATHONS MENIONED:
Historathon: youtu.be/bjRS9Btfg2Y?si=uP1LfPWiQ7xvYYHA
Middle Grade March: @MiddleGradeMarch

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MISC. THINGS MENTIONED:
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair video: youtu.be/stIORrrF8AY?si=bsWZeZ9AiwVI9-iu
We Are Not So Different Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/5dd2yPjrJJA48s1QXyENZN
Mexican Historical Fiction video: youtu.be/fiOdGur9sxY?si=FimAaH_Ao7bbIzxm
Fated Mates Podcast, Winterborne episode: fatedmates.net/episodes/2022/9/24/s0503-marrying-winterborne-by-lisa-kleypas

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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
2:06 - Rereads
8:53 - A favorite author / Hope-punk
11:31 - Most gripping page-turner
14:06 - Anti-colonialist history
17:43 - Women in the Middle Ages
19:25 - The book I’ve recommended the most IRL
21:32 - The book of the year
23:58 - A literally life-changing book
29:44 - The one that should be translated
31:56 - The best most satirical representation of the Middle Ages. (Not fantasy! No matter what they say!)
37:57 - There has to be some romance ;)
40:46 - New favorite victorian author
43:37 - A new favorite of all time
50:52 - Outro

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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
From Luke With Love,Mariana Zapata
Penric’s Demon, Louis McMaster Bujold
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, Laura Amy Schlitz
When Moctezuma Met Cortés, Matthew Restall
The Once And Future Sex, Eleanor Jane
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
You Dreamed of Empires, Álvaro Enrique
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
Cartucho, Nellie Campobello
Baudolino, Umberto Eco
Marrying Winterborne, Lisa Kleypas
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett

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ME, ELSEWHERE:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/160245301-mariana-mas-books
Instagram: instagram.com/marianamasbooks
Twitter: @marianaylavida
My channel in Spanish: youtube.com/@marianaylavida