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Hello Everyone! I’ve been intending to answer the thread for the last two days, but couldn’t get to it!

@seekjustice

Thank you so much for starting this! What a wonderful idea! I can’t watch movies without critiquing their historical innacuracies either.

@libby

I love many of the authors you mentioned as well! 1400s Italy is such an interesting setting!

I would sum up all my favorite time periods as pretty nearly everything included in World History. But if I had to choose between them, then my favorite eras would probably be Ancient Roman times/Early Church, Viking Ages, Renaissance, 1900-1950, and Communist Cuba (1950s-1960). I really love so many people from history…but for some reason I am especially drawn to people who played major roles in science (I don’t know why…) such as Pasteur, and Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier. I also love studying the lives of composers and artists.

I have not read whole works of Rosemary Sutcliff yet but am probably going to make it my 2019 New Year’s Resolution. The bit that I’ve read, though I absolutely love! I also really love Eloise Jarvis Magraw. Her prose is simply beautiful.

I am currently working on a short screenplay about two girls during the depresion. The idea still very vague and indistinct; I almost want to make it a short story, so it could become pretty nearly anything right now.

And here are some more quotes, perhaps not about history, but they are from authors:

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” Louisa May Alcott

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
“We are what we believe we are.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” C. S. Lewis

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?” L. M. Montgomery

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.” Robert Louis Stevenson