I’ve been fascinated by Anne Boleyn for most of my life; I remember using her name as my pretend one when playing “school” as a young girl although I don’t recall how I came to learn about her. Given that my only access to books at the time was my elementary school library, and my reading tastes at that age, I expect it was a book about British hauntings and ghosts, and perhaps she was mentioned. However, since that time I’ve read countless other books about her, the latest being this fabulous book. Susan Bordo looks at the stories told about Anne Boleyn, both in her lifetime and in the hundreds of years since her death, and how they’ve shaped what we think we know of her. I especially loved Bordo’s analysis of contemporary retellings, including the film Anne of the Thousand Days, The Tudors series, Wolf Hall, and of course, The Other Boleyn Girl (the quote and shade thrown by Margaret George had me cackling). I’ve also added a few more Boleyn books to my TBR list, in particular a novel by Francis Hackett, and a nonfiction account of places Anne is known to have visited.