Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
The False Friend by Myla Goldberg
Why I have it: Because I loved Bee Season.
Summary: Two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out.
I’m thinking: Maybe. The first chapters are good but then I read some reviews on Goodreads (overwhelmingly dreadful).
11.22.63 by Stephen King
Why I have it: Should this be the first King I’ve read in eleventy hundred years, Rory?
Summary: The Kennedy assassination, rewritten.
I’m thinking: Sure (it can be my 2016 doorstop read at 850 pages…).
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
Why I have it: Because bits of Eva Moves the Furniture have stayed with me.
Summary: Jane Eyre, re-imagined in 1960s Scotland.
I’m thinking: Maybe. Will I be constantly comparing it to Jane? This is always the problem with retellings.
Yes!
Also, as a huge Jane Eyre fan, The Flight of Gemma Hardy is not particularly fantastic. I was underwhelmed. It’s readable for the same reasons Jane Eyre is, but it’s not fresh in the way Re Jane is.
That being said, I liked it for what it was…(if that makes sense)
I’m not usually one for re-telling of the classics but I am intrigued by The Flight of Gemma Hardy – Happy reading!
Yes yes yes to the Stephen King! Gemma Hardy looks like my kind of crack 😉
The King was recommended to me by a friend who NEVER reads King so I figured it might be my kind of King!
I’m a bit intrigued by that King book too and I’m not really a King fan (sorry Rory).