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shawnmooney
Small Reckonings | Karin Melberg Schwier
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https://youtu.be/kxBKAixwuPI

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Mystery guest
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Small Reckonings by Karin Melberg Schwier
A Disaffection by James Kelman
The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp
The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars
Though the Bodies Fall by Noel O'Regan
Shark Girl by Kate Beaton

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Sace
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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I loved this book. Every little bit of it is my catnip: Poor girl, rich boy, jealous rival, sick family member. I read this in a day.

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Ruthiella Glad you liked it! And I believe there‘s more where that came from with her other titles. “Murder While You Work” has been the only (slight) outlier so far! 😅 1w
LeahBergen What @Ruthiella said! 😄 1w
Sace @Ruthiella @LeahBergen I‘ll have to look up more of her titles! 1w
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Ruthiella I can highly recommended “Babbacombe‘s” and 1w
Sace @Ruthiella noted! Now I want to read all her romances. I think I might start with the book you tagged. 1w
willaful I also really liked Poppies for England, Under the Rainbow and Clothes Pegs. Really didn't care for Murder While You Work. 1w
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rubyslippersreads
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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Ann was a bit too noble, and her family (especially Bunny) was a bit twee, but I still loved this book. You can always count on Susan Scarlett for escapist fluff. 😄

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Ruthiella I agree, it‘s a bit formulaic and the Bunny side story was a bit much. But from time to time, this kind of Cinderella story is fun to read. 😊 1mo
LeahBergen I kind of wanted to go to her for a beauty treatment (just to see how they‘ve changed over the years) 😆 1mo
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quietjenn
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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Hello, #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub pals! I haven't been online too much lately, but I did finish our May selection a few weeks ago.

At first, I thought that Scarlett's take on the Cinderella story might actually be *too* sweet for me and verge on saccharine, but I should've had some faith. I ended up being all about and finished the book with such a satisfied grin.

Ruthiella Glad you liked it! I don‘t think I could read too many Susan Scarletts in a row because they are so formulaic- though as a teen I‘ll bet I could have!😂! 1mo
quietjenn (Sorry about no-tags. I've been trying to get them posted for the last fifteen minutes and no luck. Will try later when maybe things are more stable?) 1mo
CarolynM Glad you enjoyed. I wouldn‘t mind living in Susan Scarlett‘s world 😆 1mo
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LeahBergen They are a bit sweet but reading one every once in a while isn‘t too bad! 😄 1mo
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen @Ruthiella Too many in a row would be like bingeing on too much candy. 1mo
rubyslippersreads @quietjenn I can‘t post tags either. I‘ve tried in the app and the browser version. I think it doesn‘t like all those @@@ 😆 1mo
Ruthiella @rubyslippersreads Exactly! It would be a little too much! 😅 1mo
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Imagen_leigh
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And now it‘s a classic 🤣

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Imagen_leigh
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This is about the recovery period of Yozu's life after a suicide attempt. He is kept in a sanitarium along the coast while he is healing. During this book, Dazai continously breaks up the story by including chunks of his own dialogue that don't necessarily add to the story, but they make for an interesting read. I haven't ever read anything like this but could definitely read more like this.

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Ruthiella
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

A charming Cinderella story, though I felt a little sorry for bad-girl Cora. Also, when Bunny fainted, I laughed, it was so melodramatic- which was I think not the intended reaction. 😂

Aesthetician Ann, from an impoverished but proud and upstanding middle class family, meets cute Sir Timothy. Will class differences hold back true love? If you‘ve ever read Susan Scarlett before, you know the answer. 😍

rubyslippersreads ❤️ those old ads. My great aunt told a story about a beauty salon that caught fire. Ladies had to be extricated from those permanent wave machines. 😲 1mo
Ruthiella @rubyslippersreads 😳 OMG! I can only imagine the panic! 1mo
LeahBergen Yes, I also had an inkling about how it would turn out. 😉😆 1mo
Ruthiella @LeahBergen Shocking! 😜😂 1mo
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LeahBergen
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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Beautician Ann is the perfect size to fit the ill and absent bridesmaid‘s gown at an aristocratic wedding and reluctantly steps in to fill the role. She meets the dashing best man (a Lord, natch) and sparks fly. This was a lovely little pre-WWII Harlequin Romance/Mills and Boon riff on a Cinderella story and I was down for all of it. 😆

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CarolynM I got a bit worried when poor Bunny was at death's door 🫣🥲 I should have known that it would all turn out well in the end😃 2mo
Ruthiella Sounds like it‘s a perfect Susan Scarlett fairy tale! I hope to start it this weekend. 🤞 2mo
willaful Ah, Never No More. I should reread that. 2mo
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Cathythoughts Great review 😁❤️ 2mo
sarahbarnes Sounds adorable 🥰 2mo
Suet624 My mother was the only other person I‘ve ever heard use the word ‘natch‘. It brings up memories. 1mo
LeahBergen @Suet624 My mother said it, too, and that‘s probably where I got it from! 😆 1mo
Bookbuyingaddict Love the cover too looks similar to the apricot sky you told me about 😍 1mo
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Centique
Clothes-Pegs | Noel Streatfeild, Susan Scarlett
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My second Susan Scarlett and at first I thought it was going to be too sweet for my current mood - then along came Freda. 😜 It became a page turner as I raced to see whether her evil plans for our sweet protagonist Annabel would materialise!
A really fun read and I love that we see snippets of early 20th century life that I‘d never heard about. Imagine giving your staff a wee glass of port to help them through a long work day!

LeahBergen I‘m glad you‘re enjoying these, too! And we could all use a wee glass of port. 😆😆 2mo
Ruthiella I do love the small details in these mid century books about what people ate and how they dressed, etc. 2mo
Centique @LeahBergen I love a wee glass of port of an evening too! If I had it at work I‘d fall asleep on my desk I think! 😂 2mo
Centique @Ruthiella its the best isnt it? Really makes that era come alive in my mind. 2mo
CarolynM Such a lovely book. Susan Scarlett never disappoints 😁 2mo
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CarolynM
Sally-Ann | SUSAN. SCARLETT
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Pickpick

Delightful! A sweet little romance, a lovely happy family and some beautiful clothes. Just what I've come to expect from Susan Scarlett. #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

Ruthiella That was fast! I haven‘t even started yet! 😂 But I am looking forward to it even more so now. 😊 2mo
JenlovesJT47 Starting this today! 2mo
LeahBergen Oh, good! I‘m just getting started! 👏 2mo
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willaful It was one of my favs of the reprints. 2mo
BooksandCoffee4Me A new one for me! I love Litsy and #littens! 💛 2mo
julieclair This one sounds right up my alley! Looking forward to it! 2mo
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