Don't they always?!
This novella was a lot of fun! A servant and the Queen become reading pals and her interfering staff send him away. When I looked up “down on the farm,“ one of the definitions seemed to fit his trajectory. The story is how reading can open the world, even to someone who has been seemingly everywhere.
I'm at about 11 hours now. #24b4Monday is helping me wrap up the books I've been juggling lately!