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.

Mania by Lionel Shriver

Why I have it: I pretty much read always read her books.

Summary: In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is ‘the last great civil rights fight.’ Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Two lifelong friends find themselves with conflicting beliefs.

I’m thinking: Yes.

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Why I have it: Because I loved Fates & Furies.

Summary: A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Mrs S. by K. Patrick

Why I have it: Spotted on a ‘best of’ list last year.

Summary: In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, an outsider arrives to take up the antiquated position of ‘matron’. The matron finds herself unsure of her role, that is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite—an assured, authoritative paragon of femininity.

I’m thinking: Yes.

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