Six Degrees of Separation – from The Book of Form and Emptiness to

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adrienne Raphel, Ian McEwan, jennifer egan, Jessica Moor, Katherine Tamiko Arguile, Kimberley Allsopp, Ruth Ozeki, Six Degrees of Separation August 6, 2022

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.

This month we begin with The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. Continue reading →

Book vs. Film – The Children Act

Posted by Kate W in Book vs Film and tagged with film, Ian McEwan, movie April 10, 2020

Book, because: Continue reading →

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2019, audiobook, book review, British, dystopian, eighties, fiction, Helen Phillips, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, reading challenge, review, science fiction July 12, 2019

Ian McEwan sure does have the corner on the middle-class-white-men-having-existential-crises market, doesn’t he?

In Machines Like Me, McEwan conjures a world not quite like the one we know. It’s the eighties in Britain – the Falklands War has been lost, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. 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 →

Four Quick Reviews

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2018, American, Anita Shreve, book review, British, Emma Donoghue, fiction, Ian McEwan, Irish, review, short story, Tracy Barone December 17, 2018

It’s getting to that stage where every spare moment is spent on ‘end-of-year’ stuff, leaving precious little time for writing reviews. I’m taking a short-cut. Continue reading →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Book vs Film, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with audiobook, Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, David Sheff, Elena Ferrante, film, Ian McEwan, Melbourne Writers Festival, movie, Nic Sheff, nonfiction, television October 3, 2018

01. Dragged the children to the MoMA exhibition this week. I didn’t take pics of my favourite pieces (too busy enjoying) – a Le Corbusier scale model of Villa Sayoye and a small Matisse canvas that was amazingly vibrant.

I watched the airport departures board included in the exhibition for ages – you don’t realise what you miss until you see it again… the soft whir of the board clicking over was deeply nostalgic. Continue reading →

Book vs. Film: On Chesil Beach

Posted by Kate W in Book vs Film and tagged with film, Ian McEwan, movie August 24, 2018

Book. Because – Continue reading →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with book jackets, Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, concert, E. B. White, film, Ian McEwan, Jessie Burton, Meg Wolitzer, movie, music, podcast, Six Degrees of Separation, swimming, television August 10, 2018

01. I took my daughter to the Katy Perry Witness concert last week. As always, Perry was FUN, energetic, and wearing amazing costumes. Highlights: the staging for Swish Swish and the eighties South Beach vibe for her Teenage Dream set (bad pics but you get the idea). Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from Atonement to Bitter Orange

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Claire Fuller, Clare Wright, Ian McEwan, John Boyne, Mara Wilson, Melbourne Writers Festival, Portia de Rossi, Rory MacLean, Six Degrees of Separation, Sonya Hartnett August 4, 2018

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 →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, Eurovision, holidays, Ian McEwan, Kerry Hudson, Lisa McInerney, Margaret Atwood, music, television May 31, 2018

01. I’ve finished uni for the semester. Now I’m planning six weeks of fun. Continue reading →