textbooks make me fall asleep. or maybe that's just me

if i read historical fiction, any author worth their salt would do his/her research (for the setting, i mean. of course, since it's fiction, the events might be altered in a certain way, but prior knowledge would of course alert me to that

) and make it real to me, and in a way i am able to learn a bit of history in an enjoyable way
i have encountered a few, rare textbooks that were written in a not-so-boring way and instead in a sort of a good conversation.
yeah, i probably confused everyone now