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.
Gigorou by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
Why I have it: Recommended by a colleague.
Summary: ‘You’re too pretty to be Aboriginal’ is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, ‘The (de)colonising of beauty’, Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. Gigorou, meaning ‘beautiful’ in Jirrbal – her grandmother’s language – is an extension of this conversation.
I’m thinking: Yes
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Why I have it: because of Lisa’s review.
Summary: Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine’s sense that something isn’t quite right grows ever stronger.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Why I have it: one of those books that keeps popping up and I think ‘Have I read it….?’
Summary: “In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.”
Thien tells the story of an extended family in China, over two generations – those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square.
I’m thinking: Yes.
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Well, *chuckle* you didn’t get far with offloading the samples today!
I have Do Not Say We Have Nothing on the TBR too.
My Sample Saturdays have been overwhelmingly ‘yes’ this year! That said, I have almost cleared all of the samples I had on my Kindle (so feel like that’s progress!?!)
Wow, eleventy billion, that is impressive!
I cleared mine of all those freebie classics that were suddenly possible when I first got a kindle. When you first started doing this Sample Saturday thing, I toyed with the idea of doing something similar with them (ones by Jack London being the least obscure) and then I thought, nobody will have heard of them, much less read them, so what would be the point?!
I loved Pet and Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Definitely support your “yes” to both!
All look great – I will watch the TED talk too.
It’s a little odd but the author has an ‘international’ accent, not a distinctly Australian one. You might not notice in the TED talk but to Australians, it doesn’t sound Australian (other examples of this are Kylie Minogue and Elle MacPherson).
I like the sound of Pet.