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The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades | G. K. Chesterton
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Excerpt el path. "Who on earth are you?" he gasped, trembling violently. "I am Major Brown," said that individual, who was always cool in the hour of action. The old man gaped helplessly like some monstrous fish. At last he stammered wildly, "Come down--come down here!" "At your service," said the Major, and alighted at a bound on the grass beside him, without disarranging his silk hat. The old man turned his broad back and set off at a sort of waddling run towards the house, followed with swift steps by the Major. His guide led him through the back passages of a gloomy, but gorgeously appointed house, until they reached the door of the front room. Then the old man turned with a face of apoplectic terror dimly showing in the twilight. "For heaven's sake," he said, "don't mention jackals." Then he threw open the door, releasing a burst of red lamplight, and ran downstairs with a clatter. The Major stepped into a rich, glowing room, full of red copper, and peacock
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tournevis
Club of Queer Trades | Gk Chesterton
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#thisorthat @Beckykearns
🖤 Meh. Classics by Doyle, Christie, Simenon.
🖤 The one with Jeremy Brett. No contest.
🖤 Either.
🖤 Books.
🖤 Either, both. I'm open.
🖤 Anywhere, everywhere, whereever.
🖤 Tagged. In the rarest of happenstances, I didn't see it coming.

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tournevis
Club of Queer Trades | G K Chesterton
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#day15 of #riotgrams is #favoritetwist
Let me be frank: A plot twist that I don't see coming is extremely rare. So when a plot twist comes and strikes me sideways, I rejoice. For some reason, I never saw this one coming, to my shame, because it's actually cliché. But there it was. #riotgram @bookriot

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Oftencantdecide
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Mehso-so

Read on Serial Reader.

I may want to read it again after reading more Sherlock Holmes stories, since I think there may be some elements of parody here that I'm not totally getting.

I really liked this at first- it was an interesting concept and quite funny. It dragged so much in the middle though, so even a pretty satisfying ending couldn't bring my rating of it higher than a so-so.

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beccaeve
Club of Queer Trades | G K Chesterton
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I'm loving #SerialReader! I always struggle to get reading done during #NaNoWriMo, and getting alerts and short sections to read each day helps a lot!! @SerialReader

Msmithbooks I'm doing Nano too! We should be Nano buddies this year! 7y
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beccaeve
The Club of Queer Trades | Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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I'm trying out #SerialReader with a collection of Chesterton stories. I think I like this method of reading where I get a short "issue" to read each day. This should be a great way to read more classics.

CrowCAH @beccaeve have you read any of the Father Brown stories, by GK Chesterson? PBS shows the TV series episodes off of his short stories of the same name. 8y
beccaeve @CrowCAH I haven't, but I'll have to check them out! 8y
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