Welcome back! I hope you’ll enjoy the special treat of a morning edition of Wednesday Links.

I feel like the heat has finally broken in New England and we can feel the start of cooler temps. Yay! In other news, I shared appetizers and margs with a friend last week, which led to her including me on the plan to secure Backstreet Boys at the Sphere tickets.

Well, we got ’em! I’m so unbelievably excited for the experience.

Also there’s nothing better than bonding and venting over warm tortilla chips and fresh salsa.

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Kelly Faircloth is killing it over at National Geographic. Her latest is a dive into a new book that discusses the real possibility that Queen Victoria had a secret marriage. This one might be paywalled, but the book in question is Victoria’s Secret by Dr. Fern Riddell.

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I’d like to mention a podcast! I follow historian Katie Charlwood, who has a lovely voice and even lovelier fashion sense, on social media. She has a history podcast called Who Did What Now? I’m linking to Spotify, but check your podcast apps of choice.

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Thanks to EC Spurlock for sharing this list of sci-fi and fantasy romances with forced proximity. (And not to be nitpicky, but the actual list is all fantasy, with the exception of the sponsoring book.)

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Love PBS and want a good cry? Watch this short doc on Camp Widow.

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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!