Are you ready for a book update, two recommended books. An audiobook and a paperback. You should spot some of the items I’m making, whilst I have slipped into another fictional world of an audiobook.
SynopsisLady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb.In November 1922, their dreams came true when they discovered the burial place of Tutankhamun, packed full of gold and unimaginable riches, and she was the first person to crawl inside for three thousand years. She called it the “greatest moment” of her life—but soon afterwards everything changed, with a string of tragedies that left her world a darker, sadder place.Newspapers claimed it was “the curse of Tutankhamun,” but Howard Carter said no rational person would entertain such nonsense. Yet fifty years later, when an Egyptian academic came asking questions about what really happened in the tomb, it unleashed a new chain of events that seemed to threaten the happiness Eve had finally found.
It’s been truly great to discuss the book in our Instagram group and chatting about it in person on Zoom this weekend. We have all expressed how much we have benefitted from all the different views we each had.
As a group, we also captured our thoughts of the book by describing it in 4 individual words, to create a word cloud. Swipe to see The Appeal Word Cloud, the bigger the word the more prevalent it was used by the group to describe the book. It really captures our discussion well.
Big thanks to Janice Hallett for answering questions from the book group, it meant so much to the group to have a route to exchange thoughts with you.
Overall the group scored the book 4 stars, and we would all be happy to pick up another book to read by Janice.
I myself was a huge fan of the structure of the book, I loved the exchange of emails and text messages. I’ve not read a “who done it” that took that format before. I did get rather intimidated by the number of characters, but really enjoyed the humorous exchanges this created.
Also thanks to Tea Leaves and Reads for stocking the book as one of there book boxes, I know lots of the group chose to buy the book like this.
Who knows I may very well hold another buddy group read in the future, watch this space.
