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The Club of Queer Trades (1905) by
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade," using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.The framing narrative by "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades.
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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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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. 7y
beccaeve @CrowCAH I haven't, but I'll have to check them out! 7y
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