Blue-Bird Weather

by Robert W. Chambers

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48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.

Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane.

Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons and The Tree of Heaven, but neither earned him such success as The King in Yellow.

Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.

After 1924 he devoted himself solely to writing historical fiction.

Chambers for several years made Broadalbin his summer home. Some of his novels touch upon colonial life in Broadalbin and Johnstown.

On July 12, 1898, he married Elsa Vaughn Moller (1882-1939). They had a son, Robert Edward Stuart Chambers (later calling himself Robert Husted Chambers) who also gained some fame as an author.

Chambers died at his home in the village of Broadalbin, New York, on December 16th 1933.

Reviews

[Lanelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Marche's doctor has told him that he better "go somewhere for a rest or ultimately be carried, kicking, into...the 'funny house'."

So John heads to the Foam Island Duck Club for some down time, and maybe get in a little duck hunting. It is an 11-year-old boy by the name of Jim that picks John up from the railroad station and drives him out to the clubhouse in a rickety wagon. And it's Jim's older sister, Molly, that is the cook and housekeeper for the lodge.

Molly also volunteers to act as John's bayman. And that means they spend lots of time together in the duck blind waiting for the waterfowl to show up.

But it's very odd that John never sees their father, who is the manager of the clubhouse, while he is there. And why does the handwriting in Jim's school book have "a vague sensation of familiarity" about it?

I especially enjoy books where the author takes the time to use lots of adjectives. This book is a good example of that practice. For example, here is a description of John's first meal at the clubhouse: "she...placed before him...his steaming soup, a platter of fried bass and smoking sweet potatoes, then the inevitable broiled canvas-back duck with rice, and finally home-made preserves - wild grapes, exquisitely fragrant in their thin, golden syrup."

[Philip Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book gives a sense on how life was back then. How Molly cooked, what they ate, every day things. At first reading it in the beginning, I really wasn't sure what direction it was heading in, which is good for me. I was pleasantly surprised how the story unfolded. Quite a unique story which is refreshing from all the mental and horror anxieties of other books. I really liked how it transported the reader back to circa 1912 and gave a window to every day life with a nice arc of redemption. Also, the book is an easy read and pleasant to think about. As I was reading it on my back porch, with the sun and light breeze, I almost felt like I was there with Molly and Marche. 5 stars as that it's a divergence from all the other predictable horror/fantasy/sci-fi/Voodoo-Friday the 13th-Ray Bradbury-Twilight zone stuff. Reading about real life back then is such a refresher.

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining romantic listening 🎶🔰

Another will written romantic relationship family adventure thriller short story by Robert W. Chambers about a young man 🚹 who comes to the gun 🔫 club island he owns to hunt waterfowl. He meets the daughter of the man 🚹 who manages the club and falls in love 💘. All is going well until he meets the father of the daughter and realises who the father is. But all ends will. I would recommend this novella to readers of relationships. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to Alexa as I do. 2022

[Naulayne Raiche Enders · Rating 4 out of 5]

Relaxing read but a very predictable romance. It was sweet, but not for someone looking or "literature".