More speedy reviews

Posted by Kate W in Book vs Film, Fiction, Non-fiction and tagged with 2020, audiobook, AWW, AWW2020, Delia Owens, epistolary, Faith Harper, film, Jess Hill, Maria Semple, movie September 4, 2020

Could I pick a more unlikely group of books to review? No. 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 →

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

Posted by Kate W in Book vs Film, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with A. J. Finn, Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts, film, gin, Helen O'Neill, Maria Semple, Marie Kondo, movie, music, Rhidian Brook, Richard Glover, television January 15, 2019

01. You know when the reading of one book prompts the reading of another? There was a passing reference to Florence Broadhurst in the book I just finished (Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover), which made me pull one of the most beautiful books I own off the shelf – Helen O’Neill’s biography, Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – tv memories, hiding, and a mother

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Jennifer Armstrong, Louise Doughty, Maria Semple, Sample Saturday, television December 17, 2016

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.

Seinfeldia by Jennifer Armstrong Continue reading →

The Top 36 from the Best Books of 2016 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2016, Adam Haslett, Affinity Konar, Alexander Chee, Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, Annie Proulx, book list, Brit Bennett, C. E. Morgan, Claire Louise Bennett, Colson Whitehead, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, David Szalay, Deborah Levy, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Strout, Emma Cline, Garth Greenwell, Han Kang, Helen Oyeyemi, Jacqueline Woodson, Jade Chang, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Karan Mahajan, Louise Erdrich, Madeleine Thien, Maria Semple, Matthew Desmond, Michael Chabon, Nathan Hill, Paul Kalanithi, Paulette Jiles, Stephanie Danler, Zadie Smith December 7, 2016

This is my community service to book bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on all of the lists I listed on Best Books of 2016 – A List of Lists. So before I have to write the word ‘list’ again, here it is, the 2016 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2016-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 36 books. Continue reading →