tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post604632699352856422..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: The Furrowed Middlebrow Dozen 2017Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-50572327381090260422018-01-12T06:16:48.729-08:002018-01-12T06:16:48.729-08:00So many books to keep an eye out for, Scott. Hear...So many books to keep an eye out for, Scott. Heartily agree with you about Stella Gibbons, I've read seven of her books so far and loved every one. And you've reminded me how much I adored An Episode of Sparrows by Godden. Have you read Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik? The paperback edition is expected sometime around the beginning of February so please take a peek...I think you'd like it!Cosy Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17818379449207007470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-70870620477012041082018-01-10T09:32:03.515-08:002018-01-10T09:32:03.515-08:00Hello Scott, Quite by chance I found your blog tod...Hello Scott, Quite by chance I found your blog today when searching for Mollie Chappell's 'The Sugar and Spice'. As an avid collector and reader of early to mid 20th century children's fiction, plus adult fiction by women writers, it's a real find, and I know I will be spending many hours browsing your previous posts. Many thanks for this list. KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00356343192166945179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-51592168483443489552018-01-07T17:00:18.347-08:002018-01-07T17:00:18.347-08:00Another Rumer Godden fan!! Episode of Sparrows is...Another Rumer Godden fan!! Episode of Sparrows is so first rate. Her characterizations are spot on and always original. Thank you for your blog. I have found a kindred spirit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-62538005778569455882018-01-06T15:50:23.788-08:002018-01-06T15:50:23.788-08:00Hello! I found your blog just as you went on vacat...Hello! I found your blog just as you went on vacation. I am a huge fan of British fiction and have most of D.E. Stevenson books, as well as Barbara Pym, and many from the Bloomsbury group. I have been reading E.M. Delafield and enjoying her books thoroughly. Of course the Provincial Lady series is delightful, but her other books really intrigue me, particularly her insight into people who lack self awareness, such as Charmain Vivian in The War Workers, and the fascinatingly imperious Lady Rossiter in Tension. Such delightful reads!!! Looking forward to further blog posts! Trishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-35888185453699246162018-01-02T15:18:32.369-08:002018-01-02T15:18:32.369-08:00Happy New Year! I loved The Essex Serpent, and ha...Happy New Year! I loved The Essex Serpent, and have started The Weight of Ink, which has been sitting on my e-reader for quite a while, so thanks for the recommendation.Kat at Thornfield Hall Reduxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072257200234114171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-87478057870110324482017-12-31T18:24:51.431-08:002017-12-31T18:24:51.431-08:00VERY interesting. I wonder if Sun in the Morning ...VERY interesting. I wonder if Sun in the Morning was a quote from something? It sounds like the two books are very different, but interesting reads in their own ways. <br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-58240776879376985162017-12-31T18:22:41.644-08:002017-12-31T18:22:41.644-08:00Well, I have just finished reading The But and Ben...Well, I have just finished reading The But and Ben. I enjoyed it, especially as a comparison/contrast to some of DES's Scotland books. But I can't say I loved it as much as I expected to. To me it came across a bit "girls career story" rather than "novel". The characters didn't live and breath to me. And the part with "Sambo" was a bit difficult. But perhaps on a re-read I will get more out of it. Or if I ever manage to read the rest of the series it may grow on me. Certainly interesting to see some of the same issues addressed in DES's books dealt with in often quite different ways.<br /><br />Happy New Year!!<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-54157856531694839462017-12-31T07:31:56.866-08:002017-12-31T07:31:56.866-08:00Glad to see you back, Scott, albeit briefly! My ne...Glad to see you back, Scott, albeit briefly! My newest discovery - about six weeks ago actually - is O Douglas. I can't imagine why I've never read her and can only assume I mixed her up with O Henry, a common mistake, it seems. I've now read half-a-dozen of her earlier books and am on a mission to find more at prices I can afford!<br />Nicky<br />(Nicola Slade)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-59750082412042115022017-12-29T10:46:46.649-08:002017-12-29T10:46:46.649-08:00Clicked on this by mistake, as I had given up - b...Clicked on this by mistake, as I had given up - but LO! I guess it was not a mistake, but MEANT TO BE! So happy to have a column to read from you, Scott! Alas, you all know all the faves I would have listed, as almost all of them came from you all!<br />Happy 2018, it's got to be better - I HOPE! - and here's to more good reading!<br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-66563401211114753342017-12-28T17:03:31.645-08:002017-12-28T17:03:31.645-08:00What? Elizabeth Cadell wrote Sun in the Morning? I...What? Elizabeth Cadell wrote Sun in the Morning? I read it when I was about 11. I went over to Goodreads just now to look for the one I remembered, and sure enough, it's the same book.<br /><br />Not to be confused with M M Kaye's memoir of her HER childhood in India, also called The Sun in the Morning.Susan Dhttp://www.susandaly.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-62687838939597454012017-12-26T10:39:05.416-08:002017-12-26T10:39:05.416-08:00I see I forgot to sign my post. The Penric and La...I see I forgot to sign my post. The Penric and Lark, etc. recommendations come from me. And I remembered the delightful Sun in the Morning by Cadell, which I encountered only in audio book format, read by the authors grand-daughter (or great?, anyway, a direct decedent) which is a semi-autobiographical tale of her youth in India. I read or listened to other Elizabeth Cadell's this year, but that was the standout.<br /><br />Jerri (see, I remembered to sign this time)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-63593485498133024702017-12-25T08:06:57.213-08:002017-12-25T08:06:57.213-08:00OK, thinking about best new to me reads in 2017, h...OK, thinking about best new to me reads in 2017, high on the list come Furrowed Middlebrow reissues, The Lark, Tom Tiddler's Ground and the Elizabeth Fair novels. <br /><br />Then, for something completely different, I also read Fantasy and SF, and I have fallen in love with Penric, the invention of Lois M. Bujold, who is writing novellas about Penric and self publishing to her own schedule as a sort of "semi-retirement". Two came out this year, and I especially enjoyed Penric's Fox, although I do think for readers new to the series the first one Penric's Demon is the place to start (but it came out a couple of years ago, as I recall.)<br /><br />I don't do a good job of keeping a listing of what I read, but these stick in my mind and heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-3838277861184351422017-12-24T06:46:03.689-08:002017-12-24T06:46:03.689-08:00Thanks for the update, Scott. Best books this yea...Thanks for the update, Scott. Best books this year for me?<br /><br />Sisters in the Wilderness, the bio of Canadian 19th century settlers (or shall we remember they too were migrants?) Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie, by Charlotte Grey<br /><br />Window on my Heart by Olave Baden-Powell: wonderful memoir of the Chief Guide, and her long life of public sevice in the Guiding movement.<br /><br />Youth at the Gate, Ursula Bloom's moving memoir of life on the home front in WWI<br /><br />And many others.<br /><br />Wish you and Andy a good Christmas and a peaceful New Year.<br /><br />Susan Dhttp://dalyght.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-27448288643040485582017-12-24T05:46:37.101-08:002017-12-24T05:46:37.101-08:00Thank you for your interesting and insightful year...Thank you for your interesting and insightful year end list. Like a previous commenter, Isabel Cameron's books sound very interesting indeed, so I took my newly acquired Amazon Gift Card (from Christmas version 1, visiting one set of family) and rushed to Amazon and snapped up an inexpensive version of The But and Ben, before someone else reading this blog could beat me to it. At least I hope I got in first, with used book resellers there is always the finite chance that it had already sold and just not been removed from the computer system as of yet.<br /><br />Best wishes to Scott and Andy and all who read this blog.<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-47498819628621216172017-12-22T08:31:50.747-08:002017-12-22T08:31:50.747-08:00As a DE Stevenson and Jane Duncan fan, I am so int...As a DE Stevenson and Jane Duncan fan, I am so intrigued by those Isabel Cameron books! A Dean St possibility?<br /><br />I used to like Rumer Godden but her late conversion to Catholicism and nastiness about divorce really bugs me. After all, she was divorced herself before her conversion and I do hate people who preach "do as I day not as I do."GSGreatEscaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03362042499522934670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-78879437727794309612017-12-21T10:22:54.990-08:002017-12-21T10:22:54.990-08:00Lovely to see you back, even briefly! I'm not ...Lovely to see you back, even briefly! I'm not doing my best-of until 1 January, as always: I've got some great books lined up on the TBR and there are also Christmas Piles to delve into, so I never like to assume until I've got the year done. Happy holidays and I hope you drop by to see my best of when it comes out!LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.com