tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post7807372415278786465..comments2024-03-27T10:21:58.236-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Friends of SFPL Big Book Sale 2018, part 2: The haulFurrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-68042345729605537402021-02-02T12:53:04.041-08:002021-02-02T12:53:04.041-08:00Inspired by your post, I dug around for informatio...Inspired by your post, I dug around for information about Katherine McComb (she also wrote nurse romance novels and Westerns) and found out a bit about her. She lived in Texas and California, died in 1990. For more, look here:<br />http://vintagenurseromancenovels.blogspot.com/p/writers.htmlSusannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12417568186428454938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-83248103989605216082018-11-07T22:49:22.337-08:002018-11-07T22:49:22.337-08:00Great haul! I love looking through other people...Great haul! I love looking through other people's book piles and you've got some good-looking ones there even if it's not as marvellous as other years. Happy reading!LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-44915147342600326372018-11-07T15:19:35.757-08:002018-11-07T15:19:35.757-08:00Blue Willow is a classic I adored in my childhood....Blue Willow is a classic I adored in my childhood. Not many, or possible no, books about that era, from a young person's point of view. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925262399933559545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-91549590824270742682018-11-06T20:17:42.476-08:002018-11-06T20:17:42.476-08:00Always fascinating to see your book haul from the ...Always fascinating to see your book haul from the sale! And extra delightful this year as I see you've picked up <i>The Element of Lavishness</i>. It's so wonderful and STW's letters, in particular, are beautifully written (Maxwell's are good too). You get a very intimate sense of both of them and the love they shared over so many years of friendship. It's one of my all-time favourite books. Happy reading!Claire (The Captive Reader)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07430380065718826213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-66474581795877546652018-11-06T17:09:18.381-08:002018-11-06T17:09:18.381-08:00Blue Willow.............children still ask me for ...Blue Willow.............children still ask me for it! Since we don't have a lot of copies kicking around, I may have to refer them to kindly old Uncle Scotty.............(oh, as if!)<br />William Inge - Picnic - THIS is how I came to my worship of Kim Novak............GOD, that was a movie! And I didn't know that he did the screenplay for Splendor in the Grass! <br />AND Grace Livingston Hill. My mother loved her stuff, along with Emilie Loring. Oh I thought it was such trash. I was such a snot (going beyond snob)<br />Scott, YOU SCORED!<br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-32120698709211318362018-11-06T16:08:59.256-08:002018-11-06T16:08:59.256-08:00What fun! I am another who has enjoyed Emily Kimb...What fun! I am another who has enjoyed Emily Kimbrough and also With Malice Towards Some. I noticed in your "modern" stack a Carola Dunn title. I recently did all her books but the most recent, from the library, mostly audiobooks, some I read. And I did enjoy them. Not keepers for me, so glad to have access to the library, but fun. The Daisy Dalrymple series I enjoyed at least as much for watching the characters develop, a sort of family feeling. I do wish my library system would get the newest one, set in the Crystal Palace.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your finds. (I especially love the DJ art, of course!<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-24378261336273788472018-11-06T14:38:59.023-08:002018-11-06T14:38:59.023-08:00Blue Willow is a classic, which you will enjoy alt...Blue Willow is a classic, which you will enjoy although I prefer her Sensible Kate. I am more intrigued by the glimpse of Floating Island - is it the book by Anne Parrish? It is a rollicking doll story that considered controversial now but I enjoyed it as a child and still own my mother's copy.CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-49428217188879310462018-11-06T10:05:58.550-08:002018-11-06T10:05:58.550-08:00I love Malice Towards Some, though it's been d...I love Malice Towards Some, though it's been decades since I read it. And Emily Kimbrough—! Just love her! Her writing reminds me of a very proper, impeccably groomed school marm type whose slip is always showing a little from beneath her skirt.Leticia Austriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09868175680409605274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-24294277875810637472018-11-06T06:55:08.137-08:002018-11-06T06:55:08.137-08:00Am I the only one who (as a child) read the word b...Am I the only one who (as a child) read the word bedraggled as bed-raggled? I knew what it meant--when you toss and turn all night and wake up all bed-raggled. AudraBark1https://www.blogger.com/profile/07952898681777147816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-56230046494434963842018-11-06T04:58:16.013-08:002018-11-06T04:58:16.013-08:00I think you'll enjoy Malice Towards Some, as i...I think you'll enjoy Malice Towards Some, as it shows an American visitor's responses to the sort of characters you have met in 1930s novels! It's years since I read it, so thanks for reminding me of it.Michelle Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499490029910905577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-62413997620925222752018-11-06T01:21:58.084-08:002018-11-06T01:21:58.084-08:00You may know Cornelia Meigs from her appearance se...You may know Cornelia Meigs from her appearance several times in the 1920s/30s on the Newbery Honors list, and as the winner in 1934 for Invincible Louisa. Doris Gates' Blue Willow as also a Newbery Honor in 1941. Incidentally, do you have a copy of my book on book awards? I've just come across a spare copy that I can send you with Rachel in the next week or so if you haven't.Abbeybufohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09943340447141277258noreply@blogger.com