Middlebrow Syllabus #22–The Hollow by Agatha Christie (1946)

Invited to The Hollow for lunch, Hercule Poirot is extremely irritated to find that his host has arranged a melodrama to greet him with. A man lies at the edge of the pool, red paint drips gently into the water. A woman stands over him with a gun in her hand. Several others stand on …

Middlebrow Syllabus #25–Alice by Elizabeth Eliot (1949)

This is the story of Margaret and her best friend Alice and their journey into an adult world that they are ill equipped for. I was so surprised by Eliot’s writing. The only way I can describe it is that it is very spare. There is no vivid detail, the characters are never fully fleshed …

Middlebrow Syllabus Reading Challenge

I been thinking for some time that I’d like to do a reading challenge in 2023. The problem was trying to settle on what to do…until I found the ultimate challenge on the Furrowed Middlebrow blog. British fiction written in the first half of the 20th century is what I gravitate towards. And in addition …