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 Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Why I have it: Because it’s a contender for Heather’s favourite book of 2016.
Summary: A woman, separated from her film composer husband, asks him to keep one devastating promise. All is revealed as the composer watches a 75 day artistic performance.
I’m thinking: Yes – the sample chapter ends with a terrific hook.
Weightless by Sarah Bannan
Why I have it: This review on the Readings blog.
Summary: Coming-of-age story about instantly-popular new girl, Carolyn, who dates a senior boy, makes some enemies, and has an unsavoury video if her circulated.
I’m thinking: Maybe (but perhaps have had enough of these types of stories this year…).
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Why I have it: It was in the 2014 Best of the Best list.
Summary: Lila, who has spent most of her life homeless and adrift, becomes the wife of a minister but struggles with her newfound security.
I’m thinking: No. I haven’t read any Robinson and this might be a good place to start but I wasn’t hooked.
I bought Lila this week (I haven’t read any Robinson either) so I’ hoping you’ll get loads of comments telling you how brilliant it is…
The Museum of Modern Love sounds excellent – somehow this had passed me by. One more for the TBR!
I’ll eagerly await your review of Lila! The writing was good but the part I read didn’t immediately suck me in.
I have Lila but I’d plump for The Museum of Modern Love which is heading straight for my TBR list.
Museum keeps popping up on my radar and everyone who’s read it, raves. The editors certainly knew when to end the sample chapter – left me hanging!
I was given The Museum of Modern love earlier this week. The cover had kept catching my eye so I was pleased to get it. Lila is also on my list but I don’t have it I don’t think. I have Housekeeping? Also not read. She is meant to be fabulous.
I feel I SHOULD read some Robinson… It put me in mind of the photographs by Dorothea Lange.
If you want to read Robinson, start with Gilead, OR, if you fancy a slightly darker bent, Housekeeping, which is her first novel and very much more peculiar than the others.
Thanks – I think Lila is the follow-on from Gilead (??) but they can be read as standalone novels?? I like dark, so might start with Housekeeping.
Her Gilead trilogy goes Gilead—Home (which won the Orange Prize)—Lila, but they can be read in any order, really. Housekeeping is great and unnerving.
I haven’t read Lila yet, but am in the middle of writing my review of Gilead – if Lila is as good as that one, you’re missing a treat… 😉
Am getting the distinct feeling that I pulled the wrong rein by rejecting Robinson! Will look forward to your review of Lila.