Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Becky, Kelly, and Ayinde are three very different women who meet in a prenatal yoga class. Ayinde is the beautiful wife of NBA superstar Richard Towne, and has just moved to the Philadelphia area after her husband was traded to the 76ers. As a result, she doesn’t have any friends [...]
Former president George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points goes on sale today. I hardly ever read these things (I made it about 1/4 of the way through Clinton’s massive tome before giving up), but I put myself on the waiting list for the audiobook version from my library. There’s no question the press lambasted Bush [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’s longest novels, which is definitely saying something about the length of this tome! It is a sweeping epic that covers lots of events and involves many, many characters. As such, it is practically impossible to talk about everything in my customary five-paragraph summaries. I [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Set in England in the 1890s, the novel is told from the point of view of 18-year-old Nancy Astley. She comes from a working class family whose entire lives revolve around the oyster trade. They run a restaurant in a small town called Whitsable, and Nancy is forever shucking the delicacies [...]