Prompt – A book by or about a journalist. Medium – Book About the book – Kate Adie is an award-winning journalist, who was Chief News Correspondent for the BBC and has reported from war zones across the world. In this book, she looks at the progress made by women in uniform primarily in theContinue reading “Book #12 – Corsets to Camouflage”
Author Archives: jennyb
Book #11 – The Detective’s Assistant
Prompt – A Western. I have never read a western in my life, and to tell the truth, can’t stand them. This was as much of a western as I could deal with! Medium – Audiobook About the book – Written by Kate Hannigan, this is the story of Nell Warne, the fictional niece ofContinue reading “Book #11 – The Detective’s Assistant”
Book #10 – Mrs Hudson and the Spirit’s Curse
Prompt – A book set in a city that hosted the Olympics – London! Medium – Book About the book – Flotsam, a poor street girl, gets taken in by Mrs Hudson, the famous housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Mrs H, it turns out, is something of a detective herself, and has manyContinue reading “Book #10 – Mrs Hudson and the Spirit’s Curse”
Book #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck
Prompt – A book about, or involving, social media. Medium – Book About the book – Alex Reinwarth discovered, quite by accident, that her friend was taking advantage of her and making her life a misery. At the end of her tether, she told this friend to f*** off, and made her life a wholeContinue reading “Book #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck”
Book #8 – The Miniaturist
Prompt – A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins. I would say that this book covers a number, but most notably lust, greed and envy. Medium – Book About the Book – Nella Oortman is sent off to Amsterdam to be married to a much older man at the age of eighteen. WhenContinue reading “Book #8 – The Miniaturist”
Book #7 – Ayoade on Top
Prompt – ‘A book with a pun in the title’ – hmmm…. sort of, it’s more like word play, but I’m counting it! Medium – Book About the book – Richard Ayoade writes a sort-of autobiographical, sort-of serious film criticism of ‘View from the Top’, a early 2000s film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo.Continue reading “Book #7 – Ayoade on Top”
Book #6 – Grey Mask
Prompt – ‘A book set in the 1920s’ – despite the cover, it definitely is! Medium – Book About the book – Written by Patricia Wentworth in 1928, this is the first in the Miss Silver set of mysteries, a fairly close replica of the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie. Charles Moray returns fromContinue reading “Book #6 – Grey Mask”
Book #5 – The Wondering Years
Prompt – ‘A book recommended by your favourite blog, vlog, podcast or online book club’. This book was recommended by ‘The Bible Binge’. Medium – Book About the book – Knox McCoy is a professional podcaster living in the South of the United States, who presents two of my favourite podcasts – the ‘Bible Binge’,Continue reading “Book #5 – The Wondering Years”
Book #4 – Then She Was Gone
Prompt – ‘A book that has at least one four-star review on Goodreads’ (this book has lots of those). Medium – Book About the book – Laurel Mack’s fifteen year old daughter, Ellie, disappeared ten years ago, with no trace of her being found since. Laurel is sure that her daughter did not run away,Continue reading “Book #4 – Then She Was Gone”
Book #3 – Becoming
Prompt – ‘A book which won an award in 2019’ – British Book Awards, Narrative non-fiction and audiobook (among others) Medium – Audiobook (19hrs) About the book – the autobiography of Michelle Obama, this book tells the story from her childhood in the south side of Chicago to the White House, with a short epilogueContinue reading “Book #3 – Becoming”
Jen's Book Blog 