Reading Two Excellent Books & Baking Hot Cross Buns! 👩🍳 | Cosy Reading Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Two great books, some speed-cleaning, and baking hot cross buns.
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MY BOOKS:
THE GIRL AQUARIUM: tinyurl.com/yc...
THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT tinyurl.com/ln...
FRANKLIN’S FLYING BOOKSHOP: tinyurl.com/hl...
FRANKLIN AND LUNA GO TO THE MOON tinyurl.com/yb...
FRANKLIN AND LUNA AND THE BOOK OF FAIRY TALES: tinyurl.com/y2...
THE BOOKSHOP BOOK: tinyurl.com/qb...
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Things mentioned:
Patreon: / jenvcampbell
The Answers by Catherine Lacey
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Unlock! www.board-game...
Exit Games: www.board-game...
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Lost by Claire Mcgowan
Hot Cross Buns recipe: www.bbcgoodfoo...
Cunning Folk magazine: www.cunning-fo...
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WHO I AM
Hello, my name's Jen. I'm an award-winning poet and short story writer. My debut short story collection 'The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night' is published by Two Roads, and my children's books 'Franklin's Flying Bookshop,’ ‘Franklin and Luna Go To The Moon’ and ‘Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales’ are published by Thames and Hudson. I'm also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' series, 'The Bookshop Book,' 'The Hungry Ghost Festival’ and ‘The Girl Aquarium.’ I run writing workshops, give talks at universities & book festivals on a variety of topics, judge literary prizes, and take on freelance writing and editing. If you would like to speak with me about the possibility of working together, please get in touch via email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com x
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There’s something therapeutic about watching you cook, keep the vlogs coming please. We appreciate! 😍
“I need to do some Hoover-ing ... very exciting .” Lady, we will gladly keep you company while you Hoover, because you are just that delightful ❤️😜 I’ve been reading lots of non fiction over the last month or so, and thus decided that I needed a bit of a fiction brake. So it’s “A Spy in Williamsburg” ( historical fiction from a series that I loved as a kid ) “The Lost Crown “ ( historical fiction for an adult market) and “Sarah” by Teri Polen ( a little YA horror, just to round things out 😜). I’ve never heard of Claire McGowen, but if you liked her that much, I have no choice but to give her a try
I’m still in bed drinking coffee and snuggling with may cat. This is a perfect accompaniment
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My husband and I played one of those Exit games after a bottle of wine.....we did not manage to get out of the polar station... 😂
Fresh buns: with butter or butter like spread. Slightly older buns: toasted with aforementioned spreads with maybe honey. I have tried melting a square of Lindt chocolate inside a slightly old bun in the microwave. Delish! I have never had piping hot fresh buns! One day!
just got your book the bookshop book for my birthday. xx
Hope you like it x
Those steaming hot cross buns are everything 😍
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Could listen to you talk for hours; thank you for sharing!💕
Did you know that Rebecca Hall wrote and directed a film of Passing? It got good reviews in Sundance and will be on Netflix in the fall.
I did, Tessa Thompson is in that too ☺️ I’m looking forward to it x
I always find it so interesting how the same foods can be so different around the world. Here on the East coast of Canada our hot cross buns don't have as much stuff in them (just raisins) and the crosses are made with icing added after they are baked. I suspect they are sweeter here. We eat them as a breakfast pastry.
ahhhh I love Cunning Folk magazine, I'm even more excited for the next issue now I know you're in it :)
I just love to watch you bake! It's so relaxing.
Thanks for watching :) x
I loved Passing and I love this cover. And I 100% agree that I really did get to know the characters a bit more, it felt like we had more time to get to know them. I also enjoyed it more than The Vanishing Half but I think that was expected, I tend to enjoy older books more. I want to hear Tessa Thompson narrate this book, she's one of the actresses in the upcoming film adaptation. Excited for that.
I am so jealous of your baking skills, in my next life I am definitely a baker... it's just not part of my journey in this lifetime. Those looked delicious.
At the moment I am reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.
Great vlog :)
Those hot cross buns turned out so beautifully! I wish I had the patience and confidence to try my hand at making anything bread/bun-related. But I find it so enjoyable watching you bake! I think the buns would be lovely with cream cheese...
Currently reading: 1) Children Of The New World (Alexander Weinstein), on your recommendation. So far, it's been a great read, very poignant. 2) The View From The Cheap Seats (Neil Gaiman), which I'm also liking.
Your reading is so relaxing.Thanks more Please,
Really loved watching your vlogs on a morning, so cosy and relaxing. I'm currently reading the 42nd novel in the J.D Robb crime series and am enjoying it. It's nice to come back to a long crime series and feel comfort knowing the characters.
I discovered hot-cross buns on my first visit to England in the very late 60’s when everything was still very traditional, so it’s butter for me. I’d love to try making them. With mince meat pies they are my favourite English pastries. A little disappointed with the crosses, I thought they were more fancy (and mysterious). Those you made look scrumptious! xx
I know! I thought they would be more elaborate too. Ah well! ☺️ x
Jen I mean this nicely but you have a cheeky and mischievous smile and I love watching your vlogs
Love your vlogs. I find them so calming. I now know how you make the cross on a hot cross bun! Thank you so much, Jen. Have a lovely restful weekend.
I hope you enjoy Rebekah’s book ☺️ Wonder is not an Own Voices book (Disability Readathon is about celebrating work by disabled authors), but I do appreciate the things that organisations such as Changing Faces have done as an extension of that book. Happy reading x
this makes me want to bake hot cross buns^^ I am reading love letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West & really enjoying it!
@@K.Kitbex aw thanks, that's lovely! I'm afraid I am a bit lovesick at the moment, but hopefully that will get better soon. To be fair, there is also quite a bit of jealousy and longing in these letters, so it feels not entirely inappropriate, haha.
have you read anything good lately?
Your videos are always so natural, just like sitting down with a friend. I didn't know that Vanishing Half is inspired by Passing. I recently read VH so will have to check out your recommendation! 😊
I hope you love it, too! x
Jen! I love your nail colour!! Green is my favourite colour, and I'd love to know brand and shade, if you can share please!
My Grandma made hot cross buns for Good Friday/Easter. I haven't attempted them myself, but our crosses were an icing glaze. Maybe it's a Canadian thing lol.
I can’t remember the shade but pretty much all of my nail polishes are Essie. You can scroll through their colours online ☺️♥️ the icing is definitely a Canadian/US judging by other comments, too. Sounds yummy to me!
i JUST finished the answers by Catherine Lacey and really enjoyed my time reading it, although so much happened im unsure what my real takeaway was. I have pew out from the library now and am interested to pick it up. a card version of an escape room sounds SO fun!! I love the in person ones. I did a digital only one with my team at work and it was a little cheesy but still fun
Hi Jen, I became a fan of yours about three years ago - you were one of the first few booktubers that I subscribed to after I moved to Australia from China. I was just starting to read more in English and your recommendations helped! After the sad announcement that your health was deteriorating I stopped following your videos, because I couldn't bear thinking about what it means to a reader/writer to lose eyesight little by little. I'm back again now and I'm so glad to find that you're sharing more of your life and the funny and childish side of you. Love the baking, the smart speaker story and the lovely things you found in the forest. xx
i just finished the book on 20th century Ceredigion poets, and someone I know has made me promise to read the autobiography of a funeral director and leant me it, so that's this year. Also managed the short story Pale Horse K A Porter on my quest to finish all the 1918 pandemic books. Oh, i read Partygoing. Frankly, there's Henry Green and there's everyone else. I can't help it. That writing. Oh. Plodding on through five spice street, which i find gripping, although it's nonsense (not in the 'Jilly Cooper is nonsense' sense but in the sense, gibberish). Goodreads reviews either say it's boring or it's great, but they don't say 'gripping gibberish', which is what you need to know! At this rate i'll be finished in two years time, i read some most weeks.
I’ve never had a hot-cross bun. 🙁
I just finished listening to Infinite Country by Patricia Engel. It was fantastic and I loved the narrator. Now I’m listening to Piranesi, which is narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor. He is doing an AMAZING job. I’m loving it so far!
* throws one over to you * x
@@jenvcampbell I had no idea what to do with a crumpet either when I found it on a London hotel breakfast buffet. 😂 Thanks for the heads up on Tessa Thompson’s reading of Passing. I will listen to that starting tomorrow. I’m on a great run of audiobooks (see above).
butter and more butter..
I’m currently reading Persuasion by Jane Austen and enjoying it :-) Loved the vlog!
I just finished Shadow & Bone, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, and Middlemarch‼️
I know I've watched this two years late 😅 but wanted to say how much I enjoyed it! So cosy ☺️✨️ those hot cross buns looked stunning 😍 I like to eat mine toasted with either butter and marmalade or thick coconut yoghurt and maple syrup 😋
It's funny that you should comment on this now, as I've just filmed a new spring reading vlog also making hot cross buns, ha. That will be going up next week. x
@Jen Campbell oh yaaaay! 😄 I'm looking forward to it 🥰 x
Lovely vlog as always. I've never had hot-cross buns, they sound quite nice tho so I may try making them once I become a more confident baker! I'm reading a sci-fi book called "A long way to a small angry planet" and loving it.
Those hot cross buns look fabulous. I’m just finishing off Dead Head, the third book in a crime series by C J Skuse. Highly recommend the series, it’s been described at Bridget Jones meets American Psycho which is pretty accurate!
Agree! I am still not over what happened in Unforgotten.
Every now and then I remember and get very angry, ha. x
Ugh, yes on the destroying of Exit Games! I found one at a used bookshop here - thinking it was there b/c they didn't play it - only to go home, open it, and the people who donated it used it! I will check out the other version!
Also, I bought Illimat b/c of your suggestion and my husband & I are OBSESSED! :) Thank you! We got the Crane Wife's expansion last weekend. We also got Call to Adventure, which I wonder if you guys would like.
Oh my goodness, why did they donate that? 😂🙈 that’s not a fun time for you, ha. I’ll check out Call To Adventure, thanks. Glad you’re enjoying Illimat ☺️ x
I just finished reading King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender. I wasn’t really sure what to expect but I fell in love. Your hot cross buns looked delicious 🥰
* posts one to you * x
@@jenvcampbell *toasts it* *noms it* *thinks it needs a side of cheese* 🤤
What a cosy vlog 😊 If you guys haven't played it yet, I can really recommend the Exit game Dead Man on the Orient Express. That one has been my favourite thus far. It's basically a murder mystery that you have to solve, so a little different from the other scenarios.
Thanks for the recommendation ☺️ x
Always love your vlogs so much! I’m eager to know what you think of the new series! I still miss Freida.
I'll keep you posted :) xx
Thank you for this lovely video of loveliness. I'm trying to challenge myself by reading the long list for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year, but the library waits are long on a lot of them. :p Are you reading those this year? I know The Vanishing Half is one of them; I'm about to start it!
I admire you so much. You are an inspiration to me
Wow, those buns!! I'm unusual I think in that I like mine not toasted, with butter. No side of cheese though as I'm vegan.
I'm going to check out the series you mentioned as we've just finished a series last night and need a new one.
Currently reading (& should finish today) the last wild place by Mike Tomkies, about living in the remote Scottish wilderness x
I feel exactly the same about Unforgotten! I think we’re going to go back and watch the first couple of series as I can’t remember what happened at all but I really like how it’s written. I’ll definitely try the crime book you mentioned - I really like Claire Mackintosh’s books as she’s an ex police officer. Oh and I just have butter on my hot cross buns but I quite like them toasted! Oh and where is your walk footage from? It looks like a great place to explore!
Hampstead Pergola ☺️ x
Dear Jen, I might suggest you take a look at Margaret Millar's Beast in View. It is a psychological thriller, which I though was written absolutely brilliantly. :) Thank you for the video!
I don't want to break the internet or anything, but I don't like hot cross buns. There. I said it. But lovely video nonetheless. ☺️ And I went and bought Passing on audio. Can't wait to start it. Xx
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I hadn’t known cross hot buns were a thing before - I don’t think we have them in Germany. But they look delicious! 😍 Other topic: Watching this I was wondering, if you had ever considered writing crime before? Just out of curiosity. Usually you seem to read the same things you write (poetry, magical realism, short stories...) crime seems to be the odd one out. I only very rarely read crime, but The thought of a crime novel by Jen Campbell gets me very excited! 😄 xx Carina
I would need to get much better at plotting things, ha! I've dabbled in it for fun before. Never say never. xx
I'm reading, The words I want you to keep, by Gaby Comprés. It's mostly affirmations and reaffirming Indigenous existence so I'm taking it bit by bit and enjoying every moment with it.
Just started, The Mummy Awakens by Naguib Mahfouz. Like, really just started it. I've only read the intro.
Have you ever tried Robert Bryndza’s Erika Foster series? Or Sharon Bolton’s Lacy Flint series? I’ve brought Blue Monday from the library the other day, because I’ve heard you talk about it a few times and decided to check it out finally. :)
Lovely as always - I really enjoy these mix videos and your baking is inspiring 💚
I've also only just ordered Catherine Lacey's The Answers, very excited for it.
Something I forgot to say in the video, because it’s not on the blurb of the book but it was on the blurb when I read about it online: the main character has a chronic illness, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to pick that one up over her other novels. Hopefully it’s a great one! Happy reading.
Ps thank you for your kind comment x
@@jenvcampbell Oh yes, that was also mentioned in the article (about Millennial Fiction) where I saw it mentioned, and it got me even more interested in it.
Hi Jen.U might like Series Louise Penny starting with Still Watch.Theres also some audios and Movie with the First.Enjoy.p.s. Hot Cross Buns look Delish...
My mum eats hot cross buns with cheese melted on top and tomato sauce (yes, on the fruit ones) and I don't quite know how to feel about it. I tend to only eat the chocolate ones so I guess I can't judge?
I read both Passing and Vanishing Half in March and I agree that Passing was a much better book. I enjoyed the layers
I just finished a crime story that I liked very much. It's called "the long, long afternoon. The story is set up in the US in the 50's and it's something different, but good. By the way, what do you think about cream cheese with the buns?
Oh, I’ve not tried that combination but it sounds like it could be very good x
Hot cross buns - warm with so much salted butter it can’t quite melt in. No additions needed. Mmmm
I like my hot crossed buns with a side of Jen Campbell on RUclips. Heaven.
Reading the roommate by Rosie danan
You hot cross buns look delightful. I've never had one before.
I just eat them plain!
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Such a lovely video :-) I've just uploaded a new one too :)
I speak German and have no friends, kein Thema!
We’re also obsessed with the Unlock games!