Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Annie Proulx, author talk, Baileys Prize, Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, Charlotte Wood, Chris Johnston, Claire Fuller, Elliot Perlman, film, Giulia Enders, Jennifer Down, movie, podcast, Rosie Jones, twitter, Zadie Smith March 9, 2017

01. Look at this library.

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The Top 36 from the Best Books of 2016 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2016, Adam Haslett, Affinity Konar, Alexander Chee, Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, Annie Proulx, book list, Brit Bennett, C. E. Morgan, Claire Louise Bennett, Colson Whitehead, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, David Szalay, Deborah Levy, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Strout, Emma Cline, Garth Greenwell, Han Kang, Helen Oyeyemi, Jacqueline Woodson, Jade Chang, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Karan Mahajan, Louise Erdrich, Madeleine Thien, Maria Semple, Matthew Desmond, Michael Chabon, Nathan Hill, Paul Kalanithi, Paulette Jiles, Stephanie Danler, Zadie Smith December 7, 2016

This is my community service to book bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on all of the lists I listed on Best Books of 2016 – A List of Lists. So before I have to write the word ‘list’ again, here it is, the 2016 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2016-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 36 books. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – wood-cutters, a mother, and publishers

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Annie Proulx, Ariel Leve, historical, memoir, Sample Saturday, Suzanne Rindell August 20, 2016

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.

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