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.

Eat, Drink and Remarry by Patricia Altschul

Why I have it: Not afraid to say how much I love Southern Charm.

Summary: Long before she was a reality TV favourite, Patricia Altschul lived a different (glamorous) life. As a high-powered private art dealer, she blazed her own path from Washington and New York to her historic home in Charleston, South Carolina. Patricia has since been embraced as a style icon and an authority on manners, Martinis, and living the best life.

I’m thinking: Maybe.

Outofshapeworthlessloser by Gracie Gold

Why I have it: Every winter Olympics, I get super-interested in figure skating…

Summary: When Gracie Gold stepped onto the ice at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America’s most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly being written up everywhere from The New Yorker to Teen Vogue, and baking cookies with Taylor Swift. But little did the public know what Gold was facing when the cameras were off.

I’m thinking: Yes.

The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin

Why I have it: Spotted on Insta.

Summary: No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife, but Hardin had been hiding the fact that she was funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’ credit cards. She soon learns that jailhouse politics aren’t that different from the PTA meetings she used to attend. When she’s released from jail, she reinvents herself as a ghostwriter, legally co-opting other people’s identities, but the shadow of her past follows her.

The truth is I’ve only ever had one addiction. The white whale of addictions: escape.

I’m thinking: Yes.