tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post6782098972928616844..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: The show must go on: BARBARA WILLARD, Echo Answers (1952)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-48913323870010254072020-01-31T08:26:46.496-08:002020-01-31T08:26:46.496-08:00Yes, and writing this review seems to have inspire...Yes, and writing this review seems to have inspired me to request a few more of them. Despite some shortcomings, this one has stayed with me in a way that some books don't.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-62098673197833572572020-01-31T08:25:35.369-08:002020-01-31T08:25:35.369-08:00Lovely, thanks for the recommendations and for mak...Lovely, thanks for the recommendations and for making me want to read the Mantlemass books too!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-89044041176456426022020-01-25T14:03:13.612-08:002020-01-25T14:03:13.612-08:00That's so interesting, I hadn't realised s...That's so interesting, I hadn't realised she'd written books for adults at all!Liz Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16896796668856635371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-77787834299387666492020-01-24T05:48:17.622-08:002020-01-24T05:48:17.622-08:00This sounds intriguing. I love the Mantlemass boo...This sounds intriguing. I love the Mantlemass books (although at least one is so tragic I could never bring myself to reread it) and that resulted in my collecting most of her juvenile books. The Snail books did not make as much of an impression on me as on you - I prefer the two books about the Tower family and one called The Battle of Wednesday Week (step-sibling theme) - but her ability to convey a scene and characters with a few well chosen words is amazing. In the second Mantlemass book, the main character who is an orphan, is taken to meet a mysterious gentleman, slowly revealed to be Richard III on the night before the battle of Bosworth Field. For this boy to meet and lose his father in just a few moments is chilling. It is really a haunting series. CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.com