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.
New Lives by Ingo Schulze
Why I have it: Recommended by Jenny Erpenbeck.
Summary: East Germany, 1990. Enrico Türmer, once artist, now entrepreneur, documents the vast changes gripping Germany – the fall of the Wall and a reunified nation – through letters to the people he loves the most.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Mrs Osmond by John Banville
Why I have it: Not sure but it has a Henry James vibe.
Summary: Isabel Osmond, a spirited, intelligent young heiress, flees to London after being betrayed by her husband. She must decide whether to return to her him and the deceit in which she has become entangled, or to strike out on her own.
I’m thinking: Maybe. I’d have to be in the right mood.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Why I have it: Because why haven’t I read this yet?!
Summary: April 29, 1986, a fire begins in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous, burning for more than seven hours and consuming four hundred thousand books. Despite investigations, the mystery remains thirty years on: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
I’m thinking: Yes.