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.
In My Defence, I Have No Defence by Sinéad Stubbins
Why I have it: No idea.
Summary: Stubbins raises the white flag on trying to live up to impossible standards and owns her complete inability to ‘self-improve’.
I’m thinking: No – it’s funny but I think the humour will wear a bit thin.
Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy
Why I have it:
Summary: Part one of Levy’s ‘living biography’.
I’m thinking: Maybe – not arresting in the way I have found her novels to be.
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Why I have it: Because it is so frequently referred to in grief texts.
Summary: Lewis’s reflections on grief and mourning after the death of his wife, including the ‘mad midnight moments’ in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and God.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
I’m thinking: Yes (and I probably need it immediately, instead of waiting for my end-of-year Sample Saturday top ten).