A Year of Sample Saturdays – 2020 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adrian Duncan, Anna Wiener, Anne Enright, Bonnie Tsui, book list, Claire Lombardo, Deborah Levy, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ewa Ramsey, Fiona Harari, Halle Butler, Jayson Greene, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Naoise Dolan, Raynor Winn, Sample Saturday December 26, 2020

I’ve read 105 Kindle samples this year – downloading sample chapters is better than impulse buying books… I think. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – a couple, a murder, and a dog

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Halle Butler, Joan Silber, Nicola Maye Goldberg, Sample Saturday, Tegan Bennett Daylight October 10, 2020

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. Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2019 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2019, Angela Savage, Carrie Tiffany, Catherine Knepper, Christos Tsiolkas, Dani Shapiro, David Nicholls, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Elliot Perlman, Emily Nussbaum, Erin Somers, Halle Butler, Heather Rose, Heidi Diehl, Helen Oyeyemi, Ian McEwan, Jen Beagin, Jennifer Down, Leanne Shapton, Leslie Jamison, Lindsay Stern, Mary Laura Philpott, Maylis de Kerangal, Naja Marie Aidt, Nora McInerny, Polly Rosenwaike, Siri Hustvedt, Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tessa Hadley, TJ Stimson, Yara Zgheib January 14, 2019

Seems there’s lots of good reading to be done this year (have I ever started a year not thinking the same…? No). Continue reading →