My Latest Listens

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction and tagged with 2023, American, audiobook, book review, British, Claire Fuller, dystopian, essays, fiction, historical, Jenny Odell, nonfiction, review, Samantha Irby November 16, 2023

The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller Continue reading →

My Year in Nonfiction

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with 2023, Anna Funder, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Daniel James Brown, Eloise Grills, Gabrielle Moss, Jenny Odell, Maggie MacKellar, nonfiction, Rob Delaney, Sarah Holland-Batt, Sloane Crosley November 1, 2023

Here I was thinking Nonfiction November wasn’t happening this year… But it is! With a bunch of new hosts.

It kicks off with My Year in Nonfiction, hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – nonfiction picks

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Jenny Odell, nonfiction, Sam Knight, Sample Saturday, Wynne Brown July 22, 2023

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… 2023 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2023, Ana Menéndez, Anna Funder, Bridget van der Zijpp, Catherine Lacey, Curtis Sittenfeld, Deborah Levy, Emma Cline, Jen Beagin, Jenny Jackson, Jenny Odell, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine May, Laura Hankin, Laura McPhee-Browne, Liv Little, Marc Schulz, Margaret Atwood, Mona Simpson, Naoise Dolan, Prince Harry, Robert Waldinger, Ronnie Scott, Sarah May, Tessa Hadley, Toni Jordan January 3, 2023

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 2023. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from How to do Nothing to The Memory Pool

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Curtis Sittenfeld, Helen Garner, Jenny Odell, Julia Baird, Leanne Shapton, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melbourne Writers Festival, Six Degrees of Separation, swimming, swimming pool, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Therese Spruhan August 1, 2020

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 →

Things that are making me happy this week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Anne Enright, Charlotte Wood, cooking, COVID-19, Elizabeth Strout, film, Jenny Odell, John Irving, Melbourne, Melbourne Writers Festival, movie, Patrick Radden Keefe, podcast, television July 23, 2020

01. Final mask-free walk with my walking buddy, Sam. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from What I Loved to Heart Berries

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Booker Prize, David Grann, Howard Jacobson, Jenny Odell, Marlon James, Patrick Radden Keefe, Siri Hustvedt, Six Degrees of Separation, Terese Marie Mailhot July 4, 2020

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 →

20 Books of Summer (except that it’s Winter)

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Andrew Ridgeley, Ann Napolitano, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀, Chanel Miller, Craig Brown, Curtis Sittenfeld, Delia Owens, Elizabeth Strout, Evie Wyld, Faith Harper, Jenny Odell, Jess Hill, Kamila Shamsie, Kate Atkinson, Laura Freeman, Liz Moore, Maria Semple, Meg Mason, Naomi Wood, Pip Williams, reading challenge, Sigrid Nunez, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Victoria Hannan May 31, 2020

Cathy at 746 Books is hosting the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge again this year. As Cathy states, it’s the most relaxed reading challenge you’ll participate in (swap books out, change your target, do whatever). Continue reading →

The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2019 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2019, Adrienne Brodeur, Ali Smith, Ann Patchett, Ben Lerner, Bernardine Evaristo, book list, Bryan Washington, Candice Carty-Williams, Carmen Machado, Casey Cep, Casey Mcquiston, Chanel Miller, Colson Whitehead, David Wallace-Wells, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Esme Wang, Helen Oyeyemi, Helen Phillips, Jacqueline Woodson, Jami Attenberg, Jason Greene, Jennifer Weiner, Jenny Odell, Jia Tolentino, Jodi Kantor, Julia Phillips, Karen Russell, Kevin Barry, Kevin Wilson, Kristen Arnett, Laila Lalami, Lauren Wilkinson, Leigh Bardugo, Lisa Taddeo, Lori Gottlieb, Lucy Ellmann, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Max Porter, Mira Jacob, Miriam Toews, Namwali Serpell, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Ocean Vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Patrick Keefe, Rion Scott, Robert Macfarlane, Ronan Farrow, Saeed Jones, Sally Rooney, Sarah Broom, Sarah Moss, Stephen King, Susan Choi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Tamsyn Muir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tea Obreht, Tony Chiang, Tressie Cottom, Valeria Luiselli, Yangsze Choo, Yoko Ogawa, Zadie Smith December 16, 2019

This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 56 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2019 – A List of Lists. Continue reading →