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.
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
Why I have it: Well… I liked the tv series about his childhood…
Summary: During Durrell’s third trip to the British Cameroons in West Africa, he and his wife capture animals to start their own zoo. Really.
I’m thinking: Yes (because as an Australian, the thought of putting anything alive in your suitcase is outrageous).
Vactionland by John Hodgman
Why I have it: Because I love the subtitle – ‘True Stories from Painful Beaches’. And that cover is gorgeous.
Summary: Older-white-male-angst and associated travel memories. I think.
I’m thinking: Despite the ace subtitle and the excellent opening gambit on moustaches… No.
Love Life by Rob Lowe
Why I have it: Because I loved Stories I Only Tell My Friends.
Summary: More stories, this time about men and women, art and commerce, fathers and sons, addiction and recovery, and sex and love.
I’m thinking: Maybe (but will wait until the read-by-Rob audio version is out).
Rob Lowe was popping up fairly reguarly on my TV screen earlier in the year. We were taking comfort in revisiting The West Wing.
For some reason I thought Rob Lowe looked like a surgeon on that cover and I was expecting Love Life to be about near death experiences on the operating table or something! I genuinely thought ‘That medic’s good looking, he looks like Rob Lowe’ 😀
Love Life was a good read, but not as good as Stories I Only Tell My Friends.
I’ve read 10 Durrells but not that one. The animal collecting books are all enjoyable. His memoirs of childhood are the best, though, starting with My Family and Other Animals.