Chapter 1 Wallace Price is a law firm partner at a Moore, Price, Hernandez & Worthington who is cold and calculating and only cares about profitability. One of the firm paralegals, Patricia Ryan, was crying in the supply closet, and she thinks that Wallace has brought her into his office to check on her because …
Wish You Were Here is Jodi Picoult’s take on a novel about the pandemic. It opens on March 13, 2020, when cases of the virus had just started being reported in the United States. The main character of Diana is an ambitious and driven New Yorker who is working for Sotheby’s on art acquisitions. She …
Part I Part II Epilogue Part I Chapter 1 (March 13, 2020) Diana O’Toole recalls how her father, a conservator, was tasked with restoring the zodiac ceiling in Grand Central Station when she was six. She describes how he left a small un-restored patch in the northwest corner, which is customary for restorers, in case …
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue was published quite a while ago, and it’s a book I’d been meaning to read at the time. With the adaptation of The Wonder coming out soon (starring Florence Pugh!), I felt it was now-or-never since I tend not to go back and read books after I’ve seen the movie …
Chapter One: Nurse Chapter Two: Watch Chapter Three: Fast Chapter Four: Vigil Chapter Five: Shift Epilogue Chapter One: Nurse Nurse Elizabeth “Lib” Wright, a young Englishwoman of “not yet thirty”, travels from London to Liverpool to begin a well-paid, two-week long position as a private nurse for the O’Donnell family. A driver picks her up …
