Sample Saturday – decisions, death, and a babysitter

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Candice Carty-Williams, grief-lit, Karolina Waclawiak, Kiley Reid, Sample Saturday February 13, 2021

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 →

The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2020 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, Alyssa Cole, Anna Wiener, Ayad Akhtar, Barack Obama, book list, Brandon Taylor, Brian Washington, Brit Bennett, C Pam Zhang, Cathy Hong, Charles Yu, Claudia Rankine, Curtis Sittenfeld, Danielle Evans, Douglas Stuart, Elena Ferrante, Emily Gould, Emily Mandel, Fernanda Melchor, Frances Cha, Garth Greenwell, Hilary Mantel, Isabel Allende, Isabel Wilkerson, James McBride, Jenny Offill, Jess Walter, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Kate Russell, Kawai Strong Washburn, Kiley Reid, Lily King, Liz Moore, Lydia Millet, Maggie O'Farrell, Marilynne Robinson, Megha Majumdar, Mikki Kendall, N. K. Jemisin, Natasha Trethewey, Peace Adzo Medie, Raven Leilani, Robert Kolker, Rumaan Alam, Samantha Irby, Sigrid Nunez, Silvia Moreno-garcia, Susanna Clarke, V.E. Schwab, Yaa Gyasi December 18, 2020

Presenting the 2020 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2020-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 50 books. Continue reading →