tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post8357363334802277926..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: STELLA GIBBONS, Pure Juliet (circa 1980)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-21027010239833649652018-04-03T08:02:26.230-07:002018-04-03T08:02:26.230-07:00Thanks, Andrea, I'm so glad you enjoyed the bo...Thanks, Andrea, I'm so glad you enjoyed the book too! I still think of it often, but no idea at all what to make of the desert ending. Gibbons deserves better than her nephew's bio, but in the meantime it has some interesting tidbits.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-1405633060450841082018-04-02T12:46:35.829-07:002018-04-02T12:46:35.829-07:00Thank you! Just finished this and I'm so glad ...Thank you! Just finished this and I'm so glad yours was the first review I've read and that it is positive. I've enjoyed a number of Gibbons' books, this one included. I agree that our hero must have been on the spectrum - and read the book with this in mind. The desert section - did she visit? I thought she described (reality? fantasy?) vividly. I am just about to read the biography written by her nephew - perhaps I'll find out why she is so snarky about feminism.<br />-AndreaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-79775994446225706742016-12-06T01:24:30.079-08:002016-12-06T01:24:30.079-08:00What lovely points you make about caring for the d...What lovely points you make about caring for the diversity in populations alongside your book review. I've read Cold Comfort Farm, the short stories that make up Christmas at CCF and Nightingale Wood. Unlike the previous commenter, I've managed to love CCF while also being a big Mary Webb and Thomas Hardy fan, but I really liked Nightingale Wood, too, and keep her on my radar. LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-90128437105014289442016-12-02T05:33:51.649-08:002016-12-02T05:33:51.649-08:00Well, at least you have an unusual reason for disl...Well, at least you have an unusual reason for disliking Gibbons! :-)Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-34662121803737510052016-12-02T05:30:13.160-08:002016-12-02T05:30:13.160-08:00Thanks, Miggsy. As it happens, I just finished rea...Thanks, Miggsy. As it happens, I just finished reading Here Be Dragons this week. Hope you've been enjoying it.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-12744849257985778682016-12-02T05:29:31.845-08:002016-12-02T05:29:31.845-08:00Thank you, Tanya! I was a little afraid it was too...Thank you, Tanya! I was a little afraid it was too preachy, so I'm glad you liked it.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-40923992500772086112016-11-30T13:24:13.533-08:002016-11-30T13:24:13.533-08:00I've kind of nurtured a grudge against Stella ...I've kind of nurtured a grudge against Stella Gibbons for a long time - <i>Cold Comfort Farm</i> killed off by sheer ridicule the English country-dialect novel, like <i>Precious Bane</i>, which I love. These types of books have made a comeback, but I growl when I think of all the lost novels that should have been, nearly a half-century's worth, rich with the inflections of Sussex and Somerset and other rustic corners of Britain ...Foosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14646569027396907990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-65982023566741331222016-11-30T02:16:59.275-08:002016-11-30T02:16:59.275-08:00Really interesting post. I haven't read Cold ...Really interesting post. I haven't read Cold Comfort Farm, but I've recently borrowed Gibbon's Here Be Dragons from the library and I can't wait to read it.Emgeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217906333863376660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-6508883980623314172016-11-30T00:48:23.790-08:002016-11-30T00:48:23.790-08:00This is so much more than a book review - thank yo...This is so much more than a book review - thank you for the points you make about understanding and making things better for people who have difficulties or who are simply different ... Tanya van Hasselthttp://ninevoices.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com