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.
This week, all my samples were chosen from #6degrees lists (from findingtimetowrite, A Life in Books, and Brona’s Books).
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Summary: The inner and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker / Marilyn Monroe, reimagined.
I’m thinking: Yes but do I have the strength for 1115 pages…?
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Summary: Four friends, born and raised in small Wisconsin town. Now they’re husbands and fathers, and returning home – shared memories, clashes and the realisation that things change.
I’m thinking: Yes, interested in a story about four male friends.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Summary: Janie, 16, is married off to an old man with sixty acres. Endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of seeds.
I’m thinking: Don’t know – unfortunately the sample was acknowledgements and reading group notes!
1115 pages? Sweet baby cheeses, it’d better be as good as everyone says!
IKR? Might be okay on Kindle because I wouldn’t have to physically hold it up.
Absolutely loved Shotgun Lovesongs, as I’m sure you’ve gathered. Thanks for the link, Kate..
Too often the story about friends is from a female perspective – which is fine but I like reading ‘relationship’ stories about male friends (which was probably why I found A Little Life so engrossing).
Their Eyes Were Watching God is completely wonderful—I would highly recommend.
Think I need to hunt this one down at my library.
I agree with Elle, Their Eyes were Watching God, deserves to be read.
I have no words for how much I love Blonde. It is one of my favourite books of all time. I really hope you read it!
I absolutely adored Shotgun Lovesongs….glad it made the cut!