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Tamra

Miss Granby's Secret: Or, The Bastard of Pinsk | Eleanor Farjeon

This caused me to snort out loud! 😆 #Furrowedmiddlebrowclub

Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣 2d

LeahBergen 😆 2d

CarolynM 🤣🤣🤣 Looking forward to this one even more now! 24h

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LitsyEvents

Miss Granby's Secret: Or, The Bastard of Pinsk | Eleanor Farjeon

repost for @Ruthiella:

Happy New Year #FurrowedMiddleBrowClub members! 🥂🍾 We‘re kicking 2025 off with the tagged title. It sounds super intriguing: a book within a book, a secret lost youthful romance, maybe some present day romance too? We shall see!

All are welcome. If anyone would like to join in and be added to the tag list, please let me know. Equally, if anyone wants to be removed, say the word.

#BuddyRead

Ruthiella Oh thank you! 😊 2d

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Ruthiella

Miss Granby's Secret: Or, The Bastard of Pinsk | Eleanor Farjeon

Happy New Year #FurrowedMiddleBrowClub members! 🥂🍾 We‘re kicking 2025 off with the tagged title. It sounds super intriguing: a book within a book, a secret lost youthful romance, maybe some present day romance too? We shall see!

All are welcome. If anyone would like to join in and be added to the tag list, please let me know. Equally, if anyone wants to be removed, say the word.

rubyslippersreads, quietjenn, Jess_Read_This, Kimzey, erzascarletbookgasm, catebutler, CarolynM, LeahBergen, Lizpixie, elkeOriginal, Gissy, Aimeesue, batsy, Tamra, Teresereading, Sace, kwmg40, Sparklemn, julieclair, willaful, MrsK

catebutler Excited to read this! 3d

Sace I can‘t wait! Just got my copy on kindle. I‘ve got the rest of the week off so I‘ll be diving into several books (one on audio, a physical book and a kindle). 3d

willaful Anyone else have it on Kobo with really messed up formatting? 😒 3d

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bookandbedandtea Sounds fun! Add me please. 😁 3d

elkeOriginal Got it all queued up as my next read! Excited by the sound of this plus ebook was only .99 cents. Winning! 3d

LeahBergen Woohoo! Here‘s to another great year for us! 🥂 3d

Ruthiella @catebutler It looks like it will be adorable. 2d

Ruthiella @Sace I read most of these on Kindle. The price is right! 2d

Ruthiella @willaful I just checked the kindle formatting and it looks okay? If your library has Hoopla, it‘s also available there. 2d

Ruthiella @bookandbedandtea I will add you to the tag list for the next read in March! I forgot to give the spiel in my post. This is a post as you go/feel like group read, tag everyone else so they can like and comment - very relaxed. Otherwise there are no discussion posts or similar. I will also tag you in the 2025 schedule post. (edited) 2d

Ruthiella @elkeOriginal That is a steal! 2d

Ruthiella @LeahBergen Indeed! Cheers to our lovely little club! 🥂 2d

CarolynM It will probably be a couple of weeks until my copy arrives. It will be hard to be patient! Looking forward another year of fun reading and chatting with this lovely group💕 2d

quietjenn He's to kicking off another great year of FMB. 2d

Ruthiella @CarolynM I hope your copy arrives soon! 2d

Ruthiella @quietjenn Six more titles to discover! 2d

julieclair I‘m excited to begin another year of fun reading with our low key, friendly group! 2d

Ruthiella @julieclair It‘s going to be low key fabulous! 2d

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CarolynM

The Native Heath | Elizabeth Fair

#12BooksOf2024 July

This collection of quirky characters read with the #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub was a lot of fun and is my pick for July.

Andrew65

Ruthiella You have excellent taste! 😉 3d

LeahBergen @Ruthiella 😆 3d

LeahBergen It was so fun. I feel the urge to read another of her books soon. 3d

Andrew65 Looks a good read. 2d

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Ruthiella

The Native Heath | Elizabeth Fair

#12Booksof2024

The #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub pick in July was a delightful surprise for me. If the rest of Fair‘s works are as sly and humorous as this one, I may have found a new favorite author!

Andrew65

LeahBergen This was a good one! 3d

CarolynM I think this will be my pick for July too. It was fun. 3d

Ruthiella @LeahBergen @CarolynM It gave me a bit of a Barbara Pym vibe. 3d

Andrew65 Second nomination for this. 2d

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elkeOriginal

Harlequin House | MARGERY. SHARP

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Finally finished this #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub read 🤦🏼‍♀️ Margery Sharp delights with her witty turn of phrase. The quirky characters living together in 1930s London piecing together work and skating by on charm was fun. Mr Partridge actually turned out to be the oddest & most annoying one - he clearly saw the least as our young characters found their way to a hopeful future. All‘s well that ends well for charming grifters & old men in red socks.

elkeOriginal @erzascarletbookgasm @rubyslippersreads @quietjenn @LeahBergen @CarolynM @Cathythoughts @Ruthiella @batsy @catebutler @elkeOriginal @tamra @kimzey @jess_read_this @MrsK @jlhammar @julieclair @kwmg40 @lizpixie @aimeesue @teresereading 3w

Ruthiella Yes, Mr. Partridge nearly messed everything up with his misunderstanding! But all‘s well that ends well. 3w

LeahBergen “Charming grifters and old men in red socks” 😆😆 Love it! (edited) 3w

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Tamra Oh that‘s funny! I liked Mr. P. 😂 3w

elkeOriginal @Tamra He was a bit whackadoodle! 3w

Tamra @elkeOriginal probably why I liked him. 🤪 3w

julieclair Mr. Partridge - a memorable character for sure! 3w

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kwmg40

Harlequin House | MARGERY. SHARP

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I enjoyed reading this novel with the #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub. It was a light and fun read. The characters were quirky, though I occasionally found them tedious and annoying.

A few passages made me laugh out loud, like the description of Hugh recovering at his club at the end of the book, and Sharp describing his state-on-mind along with the fact that “there was a bison skull on each wall.“

Ruthiella Light and fun are perfect words to describe this one. I like how Mr. Partridge is set up at the end with a place to live, a job he enjoys and his club. 1mo

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Tamra

Harlequin House | MARGERY. SHARP

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Another charming selection courtesy #FurrowedMiddleBrowClub

Shenanigans & colorful characters that were worthy of a few dope slaps. 🤦🏽‍♀️

My favorite is Mr. Partridge, who has a good heart even if a bit of a clueless bumble. The photo above is how I imagine the lending library he was sacked from might have been. (1944)

Anyone else wonder how on earth you‘d tolerate those close living quarters? 😬

Cathythoughts Awwwww lovely pic ♥️ 1mo

Ruthiella I did thinking about the close quarters of the apartment! 😬 Sleeping in the kitchen? 1mo

LeahBergen I want to go to this lending library 😆 1mo

willaful As a kid, I once spent a winter in San Francisco with my mom in a sleeping porch that had just enough room for our two sleeping bags. 😁 It's actually a very fond memory for us both. 1mo

Tamra @willaful as a family we‘ve spent weeks together in a camper and it is both fun & stressful. But with family you can tell someone they are driving you crazy, or their socks are at any rate. 🤣 1mo

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Tamra

Harlequin House | MARGERY. SHARP

Loving Mr. Partridge 💙

I laughed when he took up “Ronny‘s” postcard job drawing ladies underthings! 😂 Who knew that was a paying gig??? #Furrowedmiddlebrowclub

Ruthiella I know! The things you learn reading older books. 😅 1mo

LeahBergen It was such a bizarre little tidbit! 1mo

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rubyslippersreads

Harlequin House | MARGERY. SHARP

Not my favorite Margery Sharp, but fun nonetheless.

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rubyslippersreads @CarolynM @quietjenn @Jess_Read_This @Kimzey @erzascarletbookgasm @catebutler @LeahBergen @Lizpixie @elkeOriginal @Gissy 1mo

rubyslippersreads @Aimeesue @batsy @Tamra @Sace @kwmg40 @jlhammar @Ruthiella @Sparklemn @julieclair @willaful @MrsK 1mo

willaful Yeah, It was mid Sharp for me as well... which is still better than no Sharp at all! 1mo

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LeahBergen What @willaful ⬆️ said! 😄 1mo

Ruthiella Ooh! What is your favorite? (Asking for a friend 😜) 1mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella I love Four Gardens, and I also love Brittania Mews. even though it‘s not as light as some of her others. 1mo

quietjenn Same! 1mo

willaful I've been meaning to reread Brittania Mews, it didn't really appeal to me when I was a teen. 1mo

elkeOriginal This cover is 😘 3w

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