Tag Archives: Leslie Jamison

I’m waiting for… 2024 edition

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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 2024. Continue reading →

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Dinner at Solarace by Chef David. Apart from the actual space being over-the-top fabulous, the standouts were cod with tomato, lychee and avocado fancy bits; abalone tempura that was out of this world; and a wild rice salad that was so good I just wanted to put my face in the bowl (which I couldn’t do because we were with friends and standards and whatnot). Continue reading →

Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison

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There were stories in Leslie Jamison’s first essay collection, The Empathy Exams, that I still think about more than five years after reading them. And it’s remarkable how regularly I refer others to particular essays written by Jamison. I suspect it will be the same with her latest collection, Make it Scream, Make it Burn.

So which particular essays will I be pressing on people, and why? Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2019 edition

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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 →

A Year of Sample Saturdays 2018

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I’ve read 93 Kindle samples this year – downloading sample chapters is better than impulse buying books… I think. Of the 93 I’ve read, I’ve said ‘yes’ to 44. Of those that I’ve said yes to, five I now own and one I’ve read. Continue reading →