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Elisabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elisabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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October 2011
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Once: Six Historically Inspired Fairytales
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2016
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The Silver Shawl (Mrs. Meade Mysteries #1)
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2012
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Some Christmas Camouflage
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2013
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A Sidekick's Tale
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2017
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Mrs. Meade and the Invisible Lodger: A Short Story
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The Mountain of the Wolf (Historical Fairytales #3)
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2016
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Corral Nocturne (Historical Fairytales #1)
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2014
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Mrs. Meade and the Schoolboy Prank: A Short Story
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2024
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Land of Hills and Valleys
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Bridge to Trouble
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2020
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The Whole Town's Talking About Westerns
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“Conversation on the High Plains” by Frank Tenney Johnson
“Conversation on the High Plains” by Frank Tenney JohnsonThe Western seems to be news on Substack lately. Over the last month, I’ve read no fewer than three essays discussing how the genre itself, and its decline in the mid-20th century, relate to American thought and reflect the changes in
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“The war had been a daily thought, a continual consciousness in her life for two years, but never a real presence. Battles were things that were fought somewhere else, won somehow, by someone, and lost by someone else. Now as she stood by her own door and listened to the cannons, it was with a chilling, dreadfully full and clear realization that men were out on the field beneath that gray cloud taking each other’s lives.”
― War Memorial
― War Memorial
“Sam was staring at Claire with about the same amazement as his brother had shown. Claire didn’t seem to realize it, or else she was too preoccupied to think of it, but she was the second thunderbolt that had fallen on this long-hidebound household in as many days. First one of the hated race of doctors had been shoehorned in on them as the only thing that might get them out of an already nightmarish situation, and now this matter-of-fact slip of a girl had pushed into it of her own accord. They must have felt like the world was coming down around their ears.”
― Left-Hand Kelly
― Left-Hand Kelly
“The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.
It was Matthew’s voice that broke the silence, asking, “And what happened after that?”
“After that,” said Paul, “came Gettysburg.”
― War Memorial
It was Matthew’s voice that broke the silence, asking, “And what happened after that?”
“After that,” said Paul, “came Gettysburg.”
― War Memorial
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Outread Aubrey! C...: SPRINT: Mysteries B-) (4/1-4/30) | 38 | 29 | May 26, 2014 06:44PM | |
Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author Game, Round 2
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Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author game, Round 3
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| Love Inspired His...: First Ever Reverse Q&A | 452 | 64 | Jun 22, 2017 07:54AM | |
| It's a Summer Rea...: What are you reading? | 442 | 130 | Sep 12, 2017 05:32PM | |
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Precinct 81:
Round 6 - Task 3
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| Nothing But Readi...: BOOKS READ: Bellatrix Lestrange | 799 | 282 | Aug 31, 2018 06:40PM |
“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”
― The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”
― The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver”
― Dead Man's Folly
― Dead Man's Folly
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side.”
― Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
― Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
“Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.”
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
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