Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, Catherine Newman, COVID-19, eighties, gin, holidays, music, Rob Delaney, Robbie Arnott, television, Yiyun Li January 1, 2023

01. A fab end to the year – a boat trip on the Yarra (skippered by my son who recently completed his commercial coxswain training). Continue reading →

The Top 54 from the Best Books of 2022 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2022, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Akwaeke Emezi, Amy Bloom, Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, book list, Celeste Ng, Charmaine Wilkerson, Cormac McCarthy, Douglas Stuart, Ed Yong, Elif Batuman, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Emily Henry, Emily St. John Mandel, Gabrielle Zevin, George Saunders, Hanya Yanagihara, Hernan Diaz, Hua Hsu, Ian McEwan, Ingrid Contreras, Jennette McCurdy, jennifer egan, Jessamine Chan, Joanna Quinn, Jonathan Escoffery, Julia May Jonas, Julie Otsuka, Kate Atkinson, Kate Beaton, Kathryn Schulz, Kevin Wilson, Leila Mottley, Lydia Millet, Maggie O'Farrell, Margo Jefferson, Meghan O’Rourke, Morgan Talty, Moshin Hamid, Namwali Serpell, NoViolet Bulawayo, Ocean Vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, R. F. Kuang, Rachel Aviv, Rob Delaney, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Shehan Karunatilaka, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Stacy Schiff, Tess Gunty, Xochitl Gonzalez, Yiyun Li December 22, 2022

Presenting the 2022 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2022-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 54 books.

(This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 52 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2022 – A List of Lists – enjoy!). Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – a conversation, Bauhaus, and twins

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with grief-lit, Naomi Wood, Sample Saturday, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Yiyun Li August 31, 2019

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 →