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.
A New, New Me by Helen Oyeyemi
Why I have it: spotted via Pagebreak NYC (on Insta)
Summary: Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week. There’s a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps. By Friday, Kinga E is happy to spend the days soaking, wine-drunk, in the bath. Kingas A-G, perhaps unsurprisingly, live a varied life. But when Kinga A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all.
I’m thinking: No.
One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron
Why I have it: Nora Ephron mentions her sister’s writing in I Feel Bad About My Neck.
Summary: One Sunday morning four women at a bridge party in an elegant hotel see a beautiful woman whom they all know with a man who is not her husband. And though the ladies do not know the whole story (and despite their mutual promise to keep what they’ve seen to themselves) it is only a matter of time before one of them talks.
I’m thinking: No.
The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt
Why I have it: Keep seeing it in my Goodreads feed.
Summary: Franca left the Netherlands to start her new life in England with Andrew. Andrew, an old-fashioned Brit, encourages her not to work but to instead focus on her writing. Andrew who suggests a dinner party with his colleagues to celebrate their big upcoming launch. A dinner party that Franca must plan and shop and cook and clean for. A dinner party where an unexpected guest joins their ranks, upending the careful balance between everything Franca once was and now is…
I’m thinking: Yes.