Quick (very quick) reviews

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction and tagged with Adam Grant, art, audiobook, book review, Douglas Stuart, Ellena Savage, Emilie Pine, fiction, Hannah Kent, Irish, Jessamine Chan, Jessica Au, Jonathan Franzen, memoir, Pip Adam, review, Scottish December 30, 2022

Yep, running out of time to draw a line under the reviews for the year. Some of these I’ve been meaning to write for eleven months. Lucky it doesn’t actually matter… Continue reading →

The Top 54 from the Best Books of 2022 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Akwaeke Emezi, Amy Bloom, Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, book list, Celeste Ng, Charmaine Wilkerson, Cormac McCarthy, Douglas Stuart, Ed Yong, Elif Batuman, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Emily Henry, Emily St. John Mandel, Gabrielle Zevin, George Saunders, Hanya Yanagihara, Hernan Diaz, Hua Hsu, Ian McEwan, Ingrid Contreras, Jennette McCurdy, jennifer egan, Jessamine Chan, Joanna Quinn, Jonathan Escoffery, Julia May Jonas, Julie Otsuka, Kate Atkinson, Kate Beaton, Kathryn Schulz, Kevin Wilson, Leila Mottley, Lydia Millet, Maggie O'Farrell, Margo Jefferson, Meghan O’Rourke, Morgan Talty, Moshin Hamid, Namwali Serpell, NoViolet Bulawayo, Ocean Vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, R. F. Kuang, Rachel Aviv, Rob Delaney, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Shehan Karunatilaka, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Stacy Schiff, Tess Gunty, Xochitl Gonzalez, Yiyun Li December 22, 2022

Presenting the 2022 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2022-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 54 books.

(This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 52 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2022 – A List of Lists – enjoy!). Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2022 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, Amy Bloom, Brooke Dunnell, Carlene Bauer, Catherine Prasifka, Chuck Klosterman, Claire Louise Bennett, Clover Stroud, Daniel H. Pink, Delia Ephron, Douglas Stuart, Grant Ginder, Hanya Yanagihara, Hernan Diaz, Jean Chen Ho, Jessamine Chan, Jessie Burton, John Irving, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julia May Jonas, Julie Otsuka, Kathryn Schulz, Kendra James, Lisa Taddeo, Liska Jacobs, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Radden Keefe, Rojas Contreras, Sarah Manguso, Sloane Crosley, Tom Perrotta, Victoria Hannan January 5, 2022

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 2022. Continue reading →