Six Degrees of Separation – from Beezus and Ramona to Every Frenchman Has One

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Amor Towles, Beverly Cleary, Emma Donoghue, Evie Wyld, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Olivia de Havilland, R J Palacio, Ruth Gilligan, Six Degrees of Separation May 1, 2021

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 →

Three wildly different audios

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with art, audiobook, book jackets, Booker Prize, Dutch, Eliza Clark, Inga Vesper, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld April 29, 2021

A mixed bag on the audios lately. Continue reading →

A Year of Sample Saturdays – 2020 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Adrian Duncan, Anna Wiener, Anne Enright, Bonnie Tsui, book list, Claire Lombardo, Deborah Levy, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Ewa Ramsey, Fiona Harari, Halle Butler, Jayson Greene, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Naoise Dolan, Raynor Winn, Sample Saturday December 26, 2020

I’ve read 105 Kindle samples this year – downloading sample chapters is better than impulse buying books… I think. Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – a flatmate, words, and an accident

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Dutch, historical, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Pip Williams, Sample Saturday, Teddy Wayne, translated May 16, 2020

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. This week, all three have popped up in my Goodreads feed. Continue reading →