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.

Here After by Amy Lin

Why I have it: grief memoirs just appear in front of me…

Summary: One August morning, Lin’s husband, Kurtis, heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy’s family. It is the last time she sees him alive. Ten days after this seismic loss, Amy is in the hospital, navigating her own medical crisis and making life-or-death decisions about her treatment. In her memoir, she attempts to understand her experience in the context of commonly held ‘truths’ about what the grieving process looks like.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler

Why I have it: Not sure.

Summary: How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer’s account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Ambition Monster by Jennifer Romolini

Why I have it: spotted on a ‘best of 2024′ list.

Summary: Romolini writes of her workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when the world lets you down – a deconstruction of the American Dream.

I’m thinking: No.