booksaremyfavouriteandbest

Tag Archives: Mona Awad

Sample Saturday – a student, a fairy tale, and a killer

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Eimear McBride, gothic, Jessica Knoll, Mona Awad, Sample Saturday October 28, 2023

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 →

1 Comment

Six Degrees of Separation – from Born to Run to Cult Classic

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Bret Easton Ellis, Bruce Springsteen, Mona Awad, Ottessa Moshfegh, Roddy Doyle, Six Degrees of Separation, Sloane Crosley, Sonya Hartnett April 1, 2023

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.

This month we begin with Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. Continue reading →

25 Comments

Sample Saturday – a woman, a girl, and a man

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Anonymous, Deborah Levy, Mona Awad, Sample Saturday September 19, 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 thee came from #6degrees chains. Continue reading →

12 Comments

2019: What I Read

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2019, Affinity Konar, book list, Emma Forrest, Jen Beagin, Louis Theroux, Mona Awad, Nina Riggs, Tayari Jones December 30, 2019

Here’s my year in books (with thanks to the Goodreads record keeping tool): Continue reading →

21 Comments

Bunny by Mona Awad

Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2019, American, book review, campus-lit, eighties, fiction, magic realism, Mona Awad, review September 29, 2019

If this means anything to you:

then you probably ought to read Bunny by Mona Awad. But be warned, it’s a bizarre book – campus-lit meets magic realism meets what-the-hell-was-that meets Weird Science… Continue reading →

8 Comments
  • Hello
  • Book Reviews 2023
  • Book Reviews 2012 – 2022
  • 6 Degrees of Separation Meme
  • Favourite and Best Books
  • 2023 Reading Challenges
  • Blogroll

Recent Posts

  • #NovNov – two by Claire Keegan
  • Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
  • Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
  • Six Degrees of Separation – from Kitchen Confidential to The Master
  • November happened… new to the TBR stack

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Archives

Categories

  • Book vs Film
  • Fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Shelves and Libraries
  • Stuff and Nonsense

What’s happening

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 American art audiobook Australian AWW book group Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts book list book review British Charlotte Wood chick-lit cooking COVID-19 eighties fiction film German gin grief-lit historical holidays Irish Melbourne Melbourne Writers Festival memoir movie music nonfiction podcast reading challenge review Sample Saturday Six Degrees of Separation Stella Prize swimming television Top Ten Tuesday translated twitter

Powered by WordPress.com.

 

Loading Comments...