I read, The While Devil's Daughters by Julia Flynn Siler and Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang at the same time, the first on audio the other in hardcopy, because they informed each other. One is a non-fiction, the other is a very well researched historical fiction novel. I chose them as research for a novel I am working on. I'm sure I've said it many times, but I struggle with knowing what I know. I once spent weeks researching victorian houses so i could write about living in one. At the time I lived in one. *forehead slap* So it is with people.