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Sample Saturday – three via a local

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with , , , ,

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 are suggestions from Ramona Bookshop (and yes, I’m reading Kindle samples but know that I spend a tonne of cash at the beautifully curated Ramona). Continue reading →

South and West by Joan Didion

Posted by Kate W in Non-fiction and tagged with , , , , , , , , , ,

Joan Didion’s South and West is loosely defined as a travel essay, but of course, like all of Didion’s writing, it delivers so much more.

The book is comprised of excerpts from notebooks Didion kept in the 1970s. The first part, ‘Notes on the South‘, traces a road trip that she took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Along the way, she chronicles her observations about the small towns they pass through and she gently examines the deeply rooted (and sometimes unquestioned) beliefs about race, class, and heritage held in the South.
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