Elisabeth Grace Foley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Elisabeth Grace Foley

Honestly I think the most accurate critique of Americans that Charles Dickens managed in MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT is that we eat too fast (and we sure haven't slowed down since 1843). #classicliterature #classiclit

Elisabeth Grace Foley

Almost seems like Christie was deliberately chosen so all the usual suspects can sneer, "Oh, so you think it's silly to change 'the Nubian boatman' to 'the boatman'? That means YOU must LOVE the original title of 'And Then There Were None'!" Seeing it all over Twitter. https://t.co/nLkYQVQnxj

Elisabeth Grace Foley

Re-reading Stevenson's KIDNAPPED, and when I read the first page I remembered the beginning of the 1960 movie—how often do you have a film adaptation that manages to capture the literal first line of the book in the literal first shot?! #classicliterature #classicmovies https://t.co/qOGc5BMvzR

Elisabeth Grace Foley

@BCDreyer Heartily second the mentions of Caleb Garth and John Walton. I'd also add Mr. Stanton in Gene Stratton Porter's LADDIE, and, though it's more memoir than fiction, Ralph Moody's father in LITTLE BRITCHES.

Elisabeth Grace Foley

A list of five books you'll like if you enjoyed my novel #LandofHillsandValleys—or vice versa! https://t.co/3GL6cPqAUc #mysterywriter #writersoftwitter #historicalmystery #vintage #classicmystery @Shepherd_books

Elisabeth Grace Foley

Got to say, my #summerreading is knocking it out of the park this year. "Adorning the Dark" by @AndrewPeterson, "Founding Gardeners" by @andrea_wulf, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, "Heroes Without Glory" by Jack Schaefer, all five-star reads.

Elisabeth Grace Foley

Starting in my teens, my progression through the Western fiction genre and changing of tastes went something like this: Zane Grey Max Brand Louis L'Amour B.M. Bower H.H. Knibbs Elmore Leonard Dorothy M. Johnson Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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Elisabeth Grace Foley

Just finished SEASONS AT EAGLE POND by Donald Hall, another lovely piece of New England nature writing. As a writer Hall is a little more florid than Hal Borland, but not so relentlessly Darwinist.

Elisabeth Grace Foley

A short random list of American fiction I think should be better appreciated: "Laddie" by Gene Stratton Porter, "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington, "The Nerve of Foley" by Frank Spearman, and everything by Eugene Manlove Rhodes and O. Henry. #americanliterature

Elisabeth Grace Foley

McCullough's books definitely helped stoke my love of history—"The Path Between the Seas" and "Mornings On Horseback" were my favorites (and there are still some of his books I need to get around to reading). https://t.co/S7NJLAq9jc