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.
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Why I have it: spotted on a ‘new releases’ list.
Summary: A reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative – Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Meanwhile, with her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to find her.
I’m thinking: Maybe.
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
Why I have it: Seduced by the cover (and it’s on my 2024 ‘Waiting for…’ list).
Summary: When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.
I’m thinking: Yes.
Misrecognition by Madison Newbound
Why I have it: spotted on a ‘new releases’ list.
Summary: Elsa is struggling. Her formative, exhilarating relationship—with a couple—has abruptly ended, leaving her depressed and directionless in her childhood bedroom. The man and the woman were her bosses, lovers, and cultural guideposts. In the relationship’s wake, Elsa scrolls aimlessly through the internet in search of meaning.
I’m thinking: Yes.
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I was reading the email version of this post and wondering how the eleventy billion must be trending down by now, and then when I opened up the blog post and could see your decisions… I’m guessing that this week probably hasn’t helped much!
I actually don’t have eleventy billion samples anymore (since doing Sample Saturday, I actually read a few a week, so it’s down to approx 40 – of course, I add to that every time I read a good review). The challenge is to not immediately buy every book that I like the sample of. I think I have developed a reasonable system for this (I usually choose 10-15 books from the samples I said yes to and buy them at the end of the year). I have found the whole exercise makes me more alert at the library, so often end up borrowing.
Only 40! Well done:)