I’m waiting for… 2021 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2021, Adrienne Raphel, Alice Pung, Alison Bechdel, Anthony Bourdain, Bri Lee, Charlotte Wood, Christos Tsiolkas, Claire Fuller, Claire Thomas, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Emily Bitto, Gwendoline Riley, Jacqueline Maley, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Jennifer Down, Kristin van Ogtrop, Lisa Harding, Lisa Taddeo, Maggie Shipstead, Mari Andrew, Michelle de Kretser, Patricia Lockwood, Peter Ho Davies, Rachel Cusk, Rick Morton, Sam van Zweden, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Mihalic, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Thomas Grattan, Vendela Vida January 1, 2021

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 2021. Continue reading →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Ali Smith, Anthony Doerr, Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, Emily Bitto, Joan London, Pulitzer Prize, Stella Prize April 22, 2015

1. This. Oh my goodness. #ALLTHETEARS Continue reading →

Stella Prize 2015 – a reading round-up

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Australian, AWW, AWW2015, book group, Christine Kenneally, Emily Bitto, Joan London, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sofie Laguna, Stella Prize April 21, 2015

The winner of the 2015 Stella Prize is announced tonight. I’m excited. Continue reading →

Reading the Stella Prize shortlist – The Strays by Emily Bitto

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with Australian, AWW, AWW2015, book review, Emily Bitto, fiction, review, Stella Prize April 18, 2015

Had I not been reading the Stella Prize shortlist, I would have picked up The Strays by Emily Bitto regardless. A few people had recommended it and it’s one of those books that kept popping up on my radar. So perhaps I went in with high expectations… Continue reading →

Stella Prize 2015 shortlist

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Australian, AWW, AWW2015, book group, Christine Kenneally, Ellen van Neerven, Emily Bitto, Helen Garner, Joan London, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sofie Laguna, Sonya Hartnett, Stella Prize March 12, 2015

The Stella Prize 2015 shortlist has been announced. I’m always busting to see what’s included on a shortlist but this time even more so because I’ve signed up for the Stella Shortlist Book Club. You should join as well (if you’re at a loose end over the next six weeks…). Continue reading →

Seems I missed that one…

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Akhil Sharma, Ali Smith, Annabel Smith, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, David Nicholls, Emily Bitto, Ian McEwan, Joan London, Kate Racculia, Kerry Hudson, Leslie Jamison, Matthew Thomas, Nick Hornby, Sarah Waters, Top Ten Tuesday January 13, 2015

Top 10 Tuesday (this week I’ve done a bad-ass top 15) is a weekly feature created and hosted by The Broke & the Bookish and featuring a different book-related theme each week. I was a bit of a TTT-slacker last year, even though I generally love a list. Anyways, this week’s topic is ‘2014 Releases I Meant To Read But Didn’t Get To’. Continue reading →

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday – the best of 2014

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with book list, Colm Toibin, Emily Bitto, First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday, Sarah Waters December 2, 2014

As the year draws to a close, all sorts of ‘Best of 2014’ lists are popping up. And there are a couple of books that keep appearing on ‘Best books for 2014’ lists that I haven’t yet read, despite owning them – Nora Webster by Colm Toibin, The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and The Strays by Emily Bitto.

So I’m stretching the parameters of First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday (hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea) and presenting four opening paragraphs and a poll – you decide which book I should read next. Continue reading →