Six Degrees of Separation – from The Snow Child to Pioneer Girl

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Ada Calhoun, Chloe Hooper, Emily Henry, Eowyn Ivey, Kristin Otto, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lynne Kelly, Margo Neale, Six Degrees of Separation December 3, 2022

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 →

Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with 2022, Ada Calhoun, American, book review, literary mix tape, nonfiction, review November 23, 2022

A group of friends and I have adopted the ‘five minutes for ailments’ rule, for when we get together. Otherwise, discussions about health (and the health of our partners, parents and kids) would sap hours. Seriously, hours. This is my oldest group of friends – we were teens together in the eighties, at uni in the early nineties and had kids in the 2000s. I’m providing the timeline to give context to Ada Calhoun’s book, Why We Can’t Sleep. Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2020 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2020, Abbie Greaves, Ada Calhoun, Alice Pung, Ann Napolitano, Anna Wiener, Anne Enright, Ceridwen Dovey, Clementine Ford, Craig Silvey, Eilene Zimmerman, Ellena Savage, Emma Jane Unsworth, Emma Straub, Esther Safran Foer, Evie Wyld, Frances Cha, Francine Toon, Gabrielle Carey, Janelle Brown, Jenny Offill, John Irving, Julia Baird, Kathleen MacMahon, Liam Pieper, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lily King, Lionel Shriver, Liz Moore, Margaret Bearman, Matthew Norman, Michael Christie, Miranda Popkey, Ottessa Moshfegh, Richard Fidler, Samantha Irby, Sofie Laguna, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Stephanie Danler, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Therese Fowler, Trent Dalton January 1, 2020

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 2020.

There’s nothing new on my list (other bloggers have posted curated lists of 2020 releases and there are loads of comprehensive lists floating around, such as SMH) – I’m posting it simply to have a record of books to follow-up during the year.

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