Reading 10 Books & Baking Halloween Treats! 🎃
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A reading vlog where I read ten books and make some halloween treats - links to everything in the description. xx
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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
Pavlova video • How Much Can I Read in...
Bagels video • Cosy Vlog 📚| making ba...
cookie recipe www.theannaedi...
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night tinyurl.com/ln...
sample story • Let Me Tell You A Story
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
On a Dark Night with Enough Wind by Lilla Pennant*
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923*
Taaqtumi: Arctic Horror Stories
Cunning Folk www.cunning-fo...
You Will Never by Forgotten by Mary South*
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic*
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko
Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-Nan
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Villains and Disfigurement video: • Let's Talk | Villains ...
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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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Where to find me:
Website: www.jen-campbel...
Editorial services: www.jen-campbel...
Writing Workshops: www.jen-campbel...
Twitter: / jenvcampbell
Instagram: / jenvcampbell
Patreon: / jenvcampbell
Events: www.jen-campbel...
Podcast: www.jen-campbel...
Facebook: tinyurl.com/3o3...
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/hs8...
Email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com
(Since starting UA-cam, some of you have been asking what's wrong with my hands. This should answer any questions :) tinyurl.com/z3k...)
This video does not contain any sponsored content.
Books marked with * were sent to me by publishers for an honest review.
rainbows and halloween, two of my favourite things in the world 🎃Thanks for another great video Jen x
I comment way too much but I just LOVE your reading vlogs! Thank you for spoiling us.
I appreciate all comments, thank you Abby xx
the cookies look amazing🧡 and love the cover of the Wilds!
AH! those cookies! I actually went and grabbed chocolate cake from my refrigerator seeing the close-up of the cookies.
Your baking looks amazing! I’m learning so much about how disfigurement and disability are portrayed in books and tv. Thank you so much for discussing it, because I really wasn’t aware enough. Great idea to just sit down and read different short stories. 📖✨
Those bagels are works of art! Yes, please, to a video of making them! I love the little ghost meringues and ghoulish smile cookies!
Well, The Decameron Project sold me as soon as I looked up the list of authors in it. I’ll definitely be ordering, but I’m not sure if I’m going to go audio or physical book. I’ll also be reading Flowers of Mold. Sounds fantastic. I’m curious to hear more of your thoughts on Hag when you get to read the rest. The story you described didn’t really do it for me, but there is such a great list of authors in the book that I’m still interested.
Wonderful video!
Hi Jen! Your videos have been so enjoyable all of this year! I hate creepy things so we definitely don't have the same reading taste but your videos are so nice to watch! Maybe one day I'll pluck up the courage to read your short story collection! 😂 I love all the baking in your vlogs too!
P.S. You recommended me Disappearing Earth a while ago and it was different, but good! Thank you! 😊
Lovely vlog Jen 🥰 I've been doing lots of baking recently because we got a new oven finally! Our old one broke and only the grill section worked, which wasn't great for baking 😂 Also loved the clip of The Wilds you read, and the premise sounds so intriguing.
Your Halloween treats are soooo cute!!! Makes me wanna try baking again even though I'm awful. 😬😅
How cute are those ghosts?
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The music in this is just fantastic!
Hehe, searched the UA-cam audio library for spooky music x
The Halloween baking was brilliant and I was it was interesting seeing you sample these books and short stories. I more like magical and whimsy than horror and dark so those ones I would lean more towards but lots of the others did sound intriguing so you never know 😉
Your description of the story in The Wilds reminded me of something: When my brother was maybe three or four, he thought our dog smelled bad, so he sprayed her with my mom's bottle of Poison perfume. Then he was worried it was actually poison and gave himself up before anyone had even noticed xD
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Your book is a great. The title short story, The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night made me cry and feel so grateful.
I’m excited by your book list! I might be having to place all those titles on hold at my local library 😀
Dear Jen, you have a special talent for cooking and baking dessert. One day, you and your husband might think about opening a nice cozy place where people could buy your books and enjoy your company and treats.Since my daughter is now studying in Norwich, l will often come from Italy 🇮🇹 and be one of your best clients (I read a lot and l eat A LOT).Thank you for your beautiful video.🇮🇹 📚 🇬🇧 🥮 ❤
Haha, thanks. We did discuss a purely hypothetical bakery, which would be called The Baking of the Bread in the Middle of the Night x
those teeth cookies are amazing!!
Rainbow Bagels yes PLEASE
Love your spooky snacks! 😊 Also that Cunning Folk magazine seems like exactly the kind of thing that I would find appealing.
Wow Jen! Your Halloween treats are brilliant! You are so creative. Great recommendations too. Thank you and happy Halloween! 🎃📚📖🍁🍂
Those sweets look so good‼️ Last night my mom made a chocolate cake, and served it with 🍨‼️
You are so creative. Weird Women & Taaqtumi sound really good
I read The beginning of the world in the middle of the night last week and I loved it! It has some serious Kelly Link vibes at her best. I particularly loved the one about the hearts (of course) the one with the coffins, and also the last one with the girl who works at the aquarium (sorry for not remembering the titles), but all of them are great. I definitely recommend it for everyone who enjoys quirky stories!
Thank you x
That was lovely as usual 😍
Flowers of Mold sounds RIGHT up my street. That story sounds like it was about me!!! I remember looking at bird books and trying to use the ratio of a gull's wing to its body to work out how large my wings would have to be to work. Sigh.
Those meringues are so cute! I appreciate your varied recommendations here as someone who doesn't like being scared this was great :)
You're welcome! Thanks for watching. x
Really enjoyed this, Jen, as always. Unrelated but I'm wondering if you've read any Sofia Samatar? I recently read her short story collection Tender and loved it - Carmen maria Machado meets Neil Gaiman with a hint of Helen Oyeyemi. I think you'd like it!
I was going to say yes but then realised I was thinking of Tender Morsels. This book looks really interesting, thank you for the recommendation!
I'm trying to read a bit more Halloween-ie books, I finished I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid yesterday and unfortunately didn't love it, it was alright. I didn't like the twist. But I've started Grady Hendrix' The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and it's very entertaining so far, quite tongue in cheek. I read Horrorstör by him earlier this month and enjoyed it moderately, I'm hoping I'll enjoy this one more.
I love meringue!! I’ve been looking for a good lemon meringue recipe!
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/ZlYLLzoZ0jE/v-deo.html x
@@jenvcampbell Thank you Jen!
At 2:06 yes (maybe in this round of the queer lit readton)
I'm reading tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (in spanish is called exquisite cadaver) which is a world where there is a animal pandemic that makes us kill most animals so humans start eating and breading human meat. It sounds like something you'd like, but the few mentions of the virus may hit a little too close.
Have you ever considered applying to Great British Bakeoff? I feel like you would be so wonderful at it!! (Though we would miss you on UA-cam while you were off competing)
I love this! I wish I could afford books lol Love xx
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Though I didn’t mind it, the first story in Taaqtumi was probably my least favourite. I enjoyed the longer, darker ones that follow!
Awe no subtitles, I'm gutted, got so excited to watch this as i love your vlog, sucks being deaf sometimes 😕
Captions will be up very soon! For some reason UA-cam didn't provide autogenerated ones for the past few videos, which is infuriating as it means I have to type them from scratch, which of course takes ages (especially with having ectrodactyly). Please bear with me; I've been doing them all afternoon. xx
Yay!! thank you 😁
@@lakefish15 I've finished typing the captions, so they should be working on this video now x
Have you read anything by Olga Tokarczuc? I just read her "murder mystery" Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and it was brilliantly gothic and frightening but also very funny.
I tried Flights but didn't get on with it - will look into that book, thank you :) x
@@jenvcampbell thank you so much for taking the time to reply, you probably get hundreds of book recommendations both in your life and via this channel. I finished the book and tried to start Flights straight away but they were so differently paced that it felt like a completely different undertaking, DYPOtBotD had so much more motion to it which is strange to say about a book that has such a small setting and where the main character is often isolated and thinking about her past but even when the story paused it felt like all the gears of the world were turning, what I started of Flights felt more like a collection of photographs.
I feel the same way about the way mental health issues always seem to make characters villainous or unreliable/a complete mess in horror stories. As someone with mental illness, family members with it, and who also works with mentally ill adults, I find it so dehumanizing. ☹️
Jen, do you remember a short story collection you showed us once with a woman with clown make-up on the cover? It included a story about a girl who swallowed a frog or something like that. I can't remember the name of the book, or the author, or which video it was in but I would love to read it, so please if you know what I'm talking about get back to me.
Yup! That's She Clown by Hannah Vincent. x
@@jenvcampbell Oooh thank you! You're the best, I owe half my tbr to you.
Please don’t send me the bill 😂
Did it turn cold you've got your beanie on.
it did :)