The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
June 18, 2023 -- Week 25

Since it's week twenty-five, let's chat about prompt 25, "A fashionable character."
Have you read a book for this prompt yet? If so, who did you pick?

For prompt #25 I read The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel. Both very fashionable, and both characters, as well.

The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis. It's about Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones. For her OSS spy cover and as a Spanish countess, she wore a lot of Balenciaga.

I've read a few with fashionable characters this year but not the one I've chosen for the prompt yet. I plan to read Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins.

This was the first prompt I completed this year!! :D
I chose Audrey Hepburn!!! Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

I haven't red it yet, but i found a book on my real TBR shelf I picked up at a used book store called Fashionistas about a fashion magazine. Seems similar to the Devil Wears Prada and will be have several fashionable people

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray for a Classic Book Club. Throughout the book he was described as “fashionable” so I felt it was fitting for Prompt 25.

My choice for this prompt will be one of the books in the Cecilia and Kate novels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, The Grand Tour: or The Purloined Coronation Regalia, or The Mislaid Magician; or, Ten Years After. These are Regency fantasies and the characters are much taken with clothing and accessories.

I read The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen

There are a few fashionable people in my books so far. I will most likely use Time Squared by Kruger. In each of the timelines, Aunt Clara had something to do with fashion. Seamstress, designer, marketer...

I'm currently reading Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. It's all about the fashion/clothing industry and how it's changed over the years. Very interesting.

I read The Trouble with Princesses by Tracy Anne Warren

According to my spreadsheet I've read three books that fit this category: The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (read this years ago before the movie came out, and now that I've seen the movie many times I have to say, the movie is better, because come on...Meryl Streep makes everything better), The Queen: Her Life by Andrew Morton and because I'm trying to read an Agatha Christie novel that fits each category too, The Moving Finger fits number 25.

I read Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. I think that Jessamine quite fits the definition of "fashionable"

This one came up, as many have, in a book I was reading for something else (but now I'm down to mainly reading books I find for this challenge first and not the other way around.)

In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström -- there are three protagonists, and two of them are very much into fashion (one is a former model and the other in publishing.)

I went with Royal Assassin. Prince Regal is my fashionable character.

I’m going through the list twice. For my first go-round, I chose The Second Mrs Astor, a fictionalized account of the Astors who sailed on the Titanic. Second time through, I chose Whose Body?, the first Lord Peter Whimsy book.

I read Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella