Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, COVID-19, holidays, television January 17, 2022

01. Salt water and spectacular sunsets are restorative. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – nonfiction picks

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Celeste Headlee, Merve Emre, nonfiction, Sample Saturday, Sophie Hannah January 15, 2022

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. This week, all three titles are ones I’ve come across during professional development. Continue reading →

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2022, American, book review, fiction, grief-lit, Lily King, review, short story January 14, 2022

I went into Lily King’s short story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter, with high expectations – after all, Writers and Lovers was one of my favourites in 2020. Continue reading →

Really Saying Something by Sara Dallin & Karen Woodward

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with 2022, Andrew Ridgeley, autobiography, book review, eighties, Keren Woodward, memoir, music, review, Sara Dallin January 10, 2022

There are some delightful moments for Bananarama fans (that’s me) in Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward’s music memoir, Really Saying Something. Continue reading →

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, cloud spotting, COVID-19, German, Luisa Weiss, music, swimming pool, television January 9, 2022

01. The bit where the sea and the sky meet. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – three about families

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with foodie fiction, LGBTIQ, memoir, Michelle Zauner, Nadia Owusu, Sample Saturday, Torrey Peters January 8, 2022

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. This week, all three come from Vogue’s list The Best Books to Read in 2021. Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2022 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, Amy Bloom, Brooke Dunnell, Carlene Bauer, Catherine Prasifka, Chuck Klosterman, Claire Louise Bennett, Clover Stroud, Daniel H. Pink, Delia Ephron, Douglas Stuart, Grant Ginder, Hanya Yanagihara, Hernan Diaz, Jean Chen Ho, Jessamine Chan, Jessie Burton, John Irving, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julia May Jonas, Julie Otsuka, Kathryn Schulz, Kendra James, Lisa Taddeo, Liska Jacobs, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Radden Keefe, Rojas Contreras, Sarah Manguso, Sloane Crosley, Tom Perrotta, Victoria Hannan January 5, 2022

Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list is this list of new releases that are on my radar for 2022. Continue reading →

My Latest Listens

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2021, audiobook, Elizabeth Day, Emma Straub, fiction, Jim Lucey, memoir, nonfiction, television January 3, 2022

Magpie by Elizabeth Day Continue reading →

Things that are making me happy this week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Annabel Crabb, cooking, COVID-19, gin, Julia Baird, Richard Yates, television January 2, 2022

01. New Year’s Eve gin. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from Civility to Sleep

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Amor Towles, Angela Savage, Elizabeth Strout, Jacqueline Maley, S J Watson, Six Degrees of Separation January 1, 2022

Happy New Year!

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading →