BookTube Spin 3: My List

You might be familiar with Rick’s BookTube Spin – I’ve joined in the previous two rounds, reading The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Ruegen by Elizabeth von Arnim in the first two spins. I only finished the latter yesterday, so review is forthcoming – but I love this way of getting to books that languish on the tbr piles.

For number 3, I’ve decided to go with the Persephone edition! Some of these have been on my shelves for ages. Whichever number Rick pulls out of the spin on 25th June, I’ll read at some point in the next two months…

Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley
Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller
Marjorie Fleming by Oriel Malet
Every Eye by Isobel English
A Woman’s Place by Ruth Adam
Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell
The Far Cry by Emma Smith
The Casino by Margaret Bonham
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper
10 They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
11 The Woman Novelist by Diana Gardner
12 The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes
13 The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby
14 Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey
15 No Surrender by Constance Maud
16 Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
17 Heat Lightning by Helen Hull
18 The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal
19 Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
20 Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith

8 thoughts on “BookTube Spin 3: My List

  • June 22, 2021 at 11:08 am
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    Golly, I’m shocked that I’ve actually only read one of those Persephones! Good luck – will look forward to seeing what you get!!

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    • June 22, 2021 at 10:47 pm
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      I wonder which… my guess is Emma Smith.

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  • June 22, 2021 at 9:14 pm
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    You can’t go far wrong with a list of Persephones! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for No.7, as it’s in the TBR so a review from you would spur me on.

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    • June 22, 2021 at 10:47 pm
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      I loved her memoirs, so fingers crossed I’d love the novel too.

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    • June 22, 2021 at 10:46 pm
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      Good question! Nothing I am super desperate to win, otherwise I suppose I’d have read it already, but have been keen to read the Whipple for ages.

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  • June 28, 2021 at 5:46 pm
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    Great list! I’ve read nearly all of those. I particularly enjoyed both of the short story volumes; also loved Every Eye and The Far Cry. Operation Hearbreak is also very good and inspired by true events (I’ll say no more as it would spoil the ending.).

    I haven’t read The Expendable Man yet, nor No Surrender, so I do rather hope you get one of those as your pick, it might inspire me to finally get round to reading them. Good luck with the BookTube spin!

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    • June 30, 2021 at 4:42 pm
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      Oh wow, well done! Farewell Leicester Square came out as the winner, so let’s see…

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