Janet Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 I know this isn't much to go on, but I saw a book today on someone's desk and I tried to take a surreptitious picture of it on my ancient mobile phone! It came out too fuzzy though and I can't remember the author's name or the name of the book! All I know is that it's set somewhere in the Mediterranean - maybe beginning with C and possibly Cyprus. I think the author was a woman. I've tried sharpening the picture up but it won't work. I realise that this is nothing to go on at all, but maybe someone will recognise the fuzzy picture! Quote
chesilbeach Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 (edited) Is it The House of Dust and Dreams by Brenda Reid? http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Dust-Dreams-Brenda-Reid/dp/1409114716/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Edited August 24, 2011 by chesilbeach Quote
Janet Posted August 24, 2011 Author Posted August 24, 2011 Oh my goodness, that's it! You are truly amazing, Claire - thank you! Quote
chesilbeach Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 You're welcome! Glad my geek skills come in useful occassionally Quote
Janet Posted August 24, 2011 Author Posted August 24, 2011 I'm terribly impressed! I have to say though that now I've read the 'blurb' properly I'm not sure it sounds like my type of book! I saw it on a desk and was curious what it was! Anyway, thanks again - I bow down to your geekiness! How did you find it? Quote
Samsiren Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 Jeez... thats some mad skills you got there! haha! Quote
chesilbeach Posted August 24, 2011 Posted August 24, 2011 How did you find it? Ok, here's my instructions for how to be a geek like me. First of all you mentioned you thought it was set on a Meditteranean island, possibly Cyprus, so that gave me a clue as to what type of book it was Next I thought that the cover looked like it had some sort of biplane, and was therefore probably set in or around the time of the second world war So, I went to the Amazon books page, and onto the Fiction section Looking at the Bestsellers list, I went to the page for another book which had a cover I thought would be similar to the style of this book On that page, there's the "Customer's who bought this also bought this" section, and I scrolled through that Although it was a grainy picture, I thought I could pick out that the authors first name was longer than the surname so that was another clue This book had a very similar front cover to the back cover, with the tree coming in from the left side and the plane near the top of the picture and the authors name fitted, so I hoped that my guess was right, and fortunately I was right! Quote
Chrissy Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 May I nominate Claire as BCF Book Finder Supremo 2011? All in only five minutes, ONLY 5 minutes! We bow to thee Supremo...... as we ponder thy mighty skills. Quote
AbielleRose Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 Claire, are you sure you're not a library ninja? Very impressive skills! Quote
SueK Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 I wondered if it was that book! I read it recently on my kindle and thoroughly enjoyed it. Quote
Easy Reader Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 This would make an excellent game for the quiz section "Guess the out of focus book cover" Quote
chesilbeach Posted August 25, 2011 Posted August 25, 2011 This would make an excellent game for the quiz section "Guess the out of focus book cover" D'oh! I knew I shouldn't have given away the secrets of my geekdom - now everyone would know how to beat me and take my Geek Queen title! Quote
chesilbeach Posted August 26, 2011 Posted August 26, 2011 Surely I would make a superb literary detective? Just call me Thursday! Quote
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