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Sample Saturday – three relationship stories

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Elyssa Friedland, Patrick Nathan, Sample Saturday, Tayari Jones September 22, 2018

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 books are titles from my ‘I’m waiting for…’ list. Continue reading →

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I’m waiting for…

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adrienne Celt, Allison Pearson, Aminatta Forna, Amy Bloom, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Chloe Benjamin, Christine Mangan, Clarissa Goenawan, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elyssa Friedland, Emma Byrne, Hermione Hoby, Jessie Greengrass, Kate Greathead, Leslie Jamison, Lily Bailey, Meg Wolitzer, Mieko Kawakami, Mira T. Lee, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Nathan, Piper Weiss, Rebecca Kauffman, Sandra Allen, Shobha Rao, Tayari Jones, Therese Bohman, Thisbe Nessen, Tim Winton, Tom McAllister January 2, 2018

Commitment to reduce the TBR stack…? What commitment?

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