Last but not least, in my fourth and final post highlighting authors recently added to my main writers list, I have 14 authors whose work was comprised of or included more or less traditional mys...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/04/highlights-of-2024-update-4-of-4.html
This post, about 13 more authors added to my main author list in my most recent update, is a bit of a catch-all. All of them are interesting in one way or another—either for their work or th...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-3-of-4.html
I have twelve more authors for you today, of particular interest from among the 130 new authors I recently added to my main author list (see here and my previous post here ). And this is actuall...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-2-of-4.html
I know I've been woefully slack about writing reviews lately—even though I do have some books to tell you about—but that doesn't mean I haven't been working my little fingers to the bone for ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-1-of-4.html
> > > I am still quite fairly active, and to climb in over a window-sill > would have presented no difficulties. I had always been a great > walker, and had even ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-intend-to-count-for-quite-long-time.html
Bright Intervals was Eileen Helen Clements' second novel. Her first, Let Him Die, had appeared the year before, her first mystery and the introduction to her series detective Alister Woodhead,...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/02/detective-on-holiday-e-h-clements.html
> > > If she had not been careful, she might soon have realised the > unflattering truth that Antony had thrown her over for somebody > else: however, she was caref...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/if-she-had-not-been-careful-monica.html
> > > On just such a night, thought Elizabeth, had the barge been sunk ... > it was ridiculous to think like that, just because Signor Baldini > had told the story...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/humiliatingly-victorian-agnes-rosemary.html
Lately I seem to have been, even more than before, in pursuit of light, funny frolics, and one thing that I've learned is that the perfect balance struck by D. E. Stevenson's Miss Buncle's Book, ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/pauline-warwick-dianas-daughter-1931.html
I almost decided to scrap my Dozen post this year. Following Rupert's , tragic death in March, my reading for much of this year went off the rails. There were several months when I was reading an...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-furrowed-middlebrow-dozen-2023.html
> "And now to finish," there was a throb in her voice, "let us put on > the screen the patron of our Society, and show a picture of our > gallant Prince." > She�...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/youre-nothing-but-mean-beast-margaret.html
> > > The small, spray-drenched village of Derrybeg emerged from the > period of strife known in Ireland as "the troublesome times," with > two smoke-blackened ruins, ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/you-could-trot-mouse-on-it-d-m-large.html
If one researches her books by looking through contemporary reviews and snippets in ads, Betty Trask, who also published as Ann Delamain (as in the case of both books mentioned here), can soun...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/betty-trask-as-ann-delamain-mabel-has.html
> > > "Do you believe in anything, Susan?" > "No. Nothing. Except a sense of humour." This book rather inconsiderately jumped the queue in my TBR, ahead of a few hundred other ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/nothing-but-sense-of-humor-jane-bird-by.html
> > > Cousin Dorothy clutched me by the arm and murmured: "Kit, dearest, > why didn't I think of it before? You're just the very person ... " > I thought of Baza...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/youre-just-very-person-ann-stafford.html
> > > "Don't you remember she called me a fool when I married you?'' > "You probably were then," Tim agreed. "I've had a lot of bother with > you myself." Sevente...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/ive-had-lot-of-bother-with-you-myself.html
Back with one more post to mention some of the most intriguing authors that I added to my main list last year, but didn’t get around to telling you about at the time. If you missed the previous...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/highlights-of-lost-update-2-of-2.html
One of the things I’ve sometimes had difficulty making time for in the past few years was the ongoing updating of my main list of authors. I’m always coming across (or being told about) autho...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/highlights-of-lost-update-1-of-2.html
> > > "You know, that's a coincidence that no one would dare to use in a > novel," Martin interrupted musingly. > "Nonsense," Miles retorted. "In the kind of novels...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/anything-is-possible-noreen-bond-hide.html
I first created this thematic list—of (mostly) novels for grown-ups, written by women in the first half or so of the 20th century, with school settings—back in 2015, and subsequently updated ...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-grown-up-school-story-list.html
"Why," he said, "don't you see, it's just the difference. After that roomful of people . . . you're like a breath of honeysuckle from a country hedge.'' I leaned back and shut my eyes an...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/gentlemen-prefer-chorus-girls-emery.html
That is, back from our really lovely vacation in Portugal, followed by a few very busy days in London. We really loved Portugal. Friendly people (most English-speaking, at least in popular areas)...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/back-in-at-least-one-sense.html
> > > The guests left the Deanery at an hour consonant with the evening > engagements of a Cathedral City, and Mrs. Hodge, feeling that no > useful purpose woul...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/08/no-useful-purpose-would-be-served-by.html
> > > "What a family! Uncle Robert's much the same as ever—he never was > a great piece of work. I gather he is seldom there. One daughter is > a rabbit, poo...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-shattering-present-kitty-barne-mother.html
> > > But wasn't it silly, standing there waving her arms up and down and > watching her big white nightgown moving so unreally in the darkness > around her? I...
http://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/07/so-coolly-silent-so-vast-and-beautiful.html