In January I said “Mirabile Does Middlebrow” would become a regular feature. You may wonder, Where did it go? I was waiting for recommendations. When the women in my family get together, we often chat about light books:  cat mysteries, Cyril Hare’s Golden Age Detective Fiction, Ruth Suckow’s Iowa novels, and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of … Continue reading Mirabile Does Middlebrow: Snobbery, Linda Grant’s Blind Trust, & Violet Trefusis’s Hunt the Slipper