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 books (and all are novellas) were mentioned in this interview with author Austin Duffy (whose book, The Night Interns, I enjoyed). Continue reading
Confession: I picked The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron because it ticked a bunch of categories for my various reading challenges. Not sure how I acquired it in the first place…
LeBaron recounts her childhood and early adult experiences as the child of Ervil LeBaron, the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group. Ervil LeBaron was imprisoned for life after being found guilty of ordering the murder of his opponents (and died in jail). Murders aside, he was also responsible for orchestrating marriages, many of which included underage girls – this is explored extensively in the book, as Anna and her siblings were moved from house to house, and girls that she knew as ‘sisters’, suddenly became ‘wives’. Continue reading
01. There are two days a year when I lie in bed with a new book and eat chocolate – Boxing Day with the Quality Street, and Easter Sunday with whatever chocolate comes my way. Continue reading