Phoebe’s Comments (group member since Oct 14, 2025)

Phoebe’s comments from the Timeless Pages group.

You're good! Thanks! 😁

meeeeee!!!! 🙋

sort of 🤪

No, Stonewall had died before Gettysburg. It was General George Pickett. I am a nerd who likes odd questions, sorry 😅

I think you get to post a question next @Chloe. 😉

Sounds good!

Is there a chat for historical fiction authors to yap about their work (like there is on GFB and F&F)? I looked but I couldn't find one . . . but I may not be looking hard enough 🫠
(I honestly hate self promotion but sometimes I have to 🫣)

Ben-Hur! One of my all time favorite books. 😊

MARKED series by Given Hoffman. It's a fictional medieval world but feels really realistic (even to someone who has studied Middle Ages somewhat) and so good!

my cat

good old days

Yuri Gagarin

What, nobody has said anything?!

Well I'm August 4th. 😊

art principles

I really enjoyed the memoir If You Survive by George Wilson. It's not Christian, and there is some language and a few other bits that I could do without, but it was really good! I felt like he did a good job with telling how the war was for him without glorifying it or being too graphic. It was basically my road map for writing one of my books 🫠

WWII, Ancient Rome, and Civil War . . . which are my 3 favorite time eras 😉

It was cool! The only lines in English were from a few British soldiers 😂

Yes and no. Usually I could get the gist of it based on what was going on. Plus I know some French so that helped - they talked pretty fast tho! So sometimes I was left going "huhh?" but in a war movie understanding the dialogue usually doesn't matter quite as much.

Divisione Folgore (1954) is about the Italian paratroopers in North Africa in WWII. It's b&w, all in Italian, and it's so good! I watched it without subtitles so I can't say if there's language but I doubt it since this is the 50s, and everything else is pretty clean. It inspired me hehe 😁

(my only beef is with the scriptwriters, they killed off a character and it was super sad 😭 being that it's war it makes sense but it wasn't a great writing decision IMO. Fortunately we have headcanon so I can say he didn't die 🫠)

Thanks for the recs, guys! I'll definitely look those up - after all real accounts are WAY more helpful than fiction hehe 😁

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