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 Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson
Why I have it: Because of this article.
Summary: 89-year-old author, Wilson, reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen’s novels.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Why I have it: the publicists must be doing a good job because I’m seeing it everywhere.
Summary: 1960s: chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman – single mother, and the reluctant star of the cooking show Supper at Six. But she isn’t teaching women to cook, she’s daring them to change the status quo.
I’m thinking: Maybe.
Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
Why I have it: Spotted in one of Susan’s round-ups.
Summary: A young woman growing up in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, and the decades that follow her shotgun wedding.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Interesting selection. Not sure about the last one.
The first scene of the last one was exquisite- I was 100% sold straight away.
I’m not sure about the middle one but it sounds like it could work well as an adaptation. The other two are very appealing!
The writing is good but I fear it will veer into a romance.
Oh… yes… that article would also inspire me to read that Jane Austen Remedy book. In fact… I think I’ll check out buying a copy!
My work here is done!
Have to confess I’ve yet to read the Delaney but a friend whose opinion I trust was raving about it to me yesterday.
I have Before my Actual Heart Breaks on the tbr too. I just finished Trespasses, a Belfast set novel of the trouble in the 1970s. Utter perfection.
I’m sold on Before my Actual Heart Breaks. Seeing Lessons in Chemistry just about everywhere is a turn off for me…..